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O’Mara receives key Senate committee assignments
Allegany County News, News, NY State News
Olean Times Herald staff 
Jan 17, 2023
ALBANY — State Sen. Tom O’Mara, R-Big Flats, has received several assignments on committees that he says will impact the direction of several issues. ...
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Mask mandate had to end
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Apr 25, 2022
Flight attendants celebrated in the aisles and passengers cheered when a federal judge in Florida finally reined in the overreaching of the Centers fo...
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Mask mandate had to end
Apr 25, 2022
Flight attendants celebrated in the aisles and passengers cheered when a federal judge in Florida finally reined in the overreaching of the Centers fo...
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Toss mask mandates for good
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Apr 20, 2022
The Biden administration’s latest defeat in its stubborn fight to keep in place COVID-19 safety protocols should bring the president to the reality th...
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It’s time to end the COVID emergency
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOUG BADGER and KEVIN DAYARATNA / Tribune News Service 
Apr 10, 2022
Much has changed since President Donald Trump invoked emergency powers to combat the spread of COVID-19. Immunity, whether natural or acquired through...
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Schools deserve same urgency
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 17, 2022
Gov. Kathy Hochul made the right decision in letting the state’s temporary indoor mask mandate expire last Thursday. The Covid-19 omicron wave is rece...
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20 new COVID cases in Cattaraugus County
Cattaraugus County, News
RICK MILLER Olean Times Herald 
Feb 16, 2022
The Cattaraugus County Health Department reported 20 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday. That continues a downward trend of cases over the past 10 days. Th...
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Canada’s Trudeau should give in to the truckers
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Feb 12, 2022
The workers of the world should unite, so long as it isn’t against COVID-19 restrictions. In that event, they are hateful kooks who deserve whatever t...
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Letter: Putting party over the people
Letters To Editor, Opinion
Feb 01, 2022
Unbelievable. The Republican Cattaraugus County Legislature is PETTY. They have used their political stance to punish a Democratic representative beca...
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The left’s coming defeat in the mask wars
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Jan 29, 2022
The people in contemporary America who most pride themselves on their alleged commitment to science and public health are also the most superstitious ...
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Judge temporarily restores New York’s mask mandate
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, News, ...
Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
Jan 26, 2022
An appeals judge temporarily restored New York’s mask mandate Tuesday, a day after a lower court judge ruled that Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration l...
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Virginia’s Gov. Youngkin is right on masks
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Jan 19, 2022
Glenn Youngkin promised to be on the side of parents as Virginia governor, and on his first day in office, he delivered. The Republican issued an exec...
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Pandemic life doesn’t have to be that way (copy)
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Jan 18, 2022
FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — The other morning, a friend from Washington, D.C., sent me an exasperated text with a link to the new vaccine passport requi...
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