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Unemployment incentives can’t continue
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
RACHEL GRESZLER Tribune News Service 
May 18, 2020
With more than 1 in 5 Americans filing for unemployment benefits over the past eight weeks, policymakers’ top priority is clear: restoring conditions ...
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Seeing a faint light ahead
Commentary, Local Columnists
JIM BONN, Olean Times Herald 
May 12, 2020
For most of us the countdown to spring’s arrival brings joyful thoughts of awakening after a long winter. Gardening, outdoor walks, bicycling, fishing...
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NY’s STAR benefits could change — again
Business, Local News
JOSEPH SPECTOR Observer-Dispatch, Utica 
Jan 23, 2020
ALBANY (TNS) — More homeowners would have to wait for a check in the mail to get their STAR savings on their school taxes under a proposal unveiled Tu...
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Progressive Perspective: No one needs a billion dollars
Commentary, Local Columnists
CHRIS STANLEY Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Jan 07, 2020
Imagine that a distant relative died and left you $1 million. What would you do with it? Most of us would begin by paying off our bills, but then what...
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Single-payer healthcare: Costs and benefits
Commentary, Local Columnists
CHRIS STANLEY Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Apr 24, 2019
Virtually everyone in the U.S. agrees that our healthcare system is broken, but people disagree about how to fix it. So many different ideas and solut...
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Cuba business owner, wife plead to welfare fraud
Allegany County News, Crime, News, ...
Olean Times Herald staff 
Mar 28, 2019
BELMONT — A Cuba business owner and his wife, who concealed a six-figure income to fraudulently receive more than $8,000 in welfare benefits, have bot...
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Program helps families help themselves
Lifestyle
Gail Rosenblum. Star Tribune (Minneapolis) 
Jan 15, 2019
(TNS) The Family Partnership has strengthened Twin Cities families for 140 years through therapeutic preschools, mental health counseling and anti hum...
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Poverty: You might be surprised by the reality
Commentary, Local Columnists
SUZANNE FLIERL KRULL, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Nov 05, 2018
It’s hard to be poor. It’s hard to struggle to keep a roof over your head and food on the table. The struggle is real, and it’s made harder by misunde...
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