opinion

How worried should you be about omicron BA.5?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
FAYE FLAM - Tribune News Service 
Jul 18, 2022
The ways we think about the COVID-19 pandemic have evolved with the virus: In 2020, it was a potentially deadly threat we could avoid by being careful...
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Biden’s economy steering us into recession
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
E.J. ANTONI - Tribune News Service 
Jul 17, 2022
If you’re having trouble making it from paycheck to paycheck, you’re hardly alone. A majority of Americans tell pollsters they feel the economy is not...
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A presidential ticket that might save GOP from itself
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
LYNN SCHMIDT Tribune News Service 
Jul 07, 2022
A 2024 ticket of former Vice President Mike Pence and Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney might just be the thing that saves the Republican Party and our republic...
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Cherry-picking Jan. 6
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
BYRON YORK 
Jul 07, 2022
Is showrunner James Goldston the most important force on the House Democratic Jan. 6 committee? There's no doubt the former president of ABC News is s...
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NATO united on Ukraine but still not doing enough
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Jul 01, 2022
When it comes to the NATO summit and President Joe Biden’s performance as global leader, there’s the good news and the bad news. Confronted with the d...
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Hochul will sail into the fall
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union 
Jul 01, 2022
ALBANY (TNS)— Primary day went beautifully for Gov.Kathy Hochul. She couldn't have asked for much more. First and foremost, she won the Democratic con...
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Free Brittney? Americans must show principles ourselves
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
LZ GRANDERSON Tribune News Service 
Jul 01, 2022
Asadullah Haroon Gul went home last week. Since 2007, the Afghan native had been detained at Guantanamo Bay — without a trial. Serendipitous timing, w...
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Ignoring women after the Roe v. Wade decision?
Local Columnists, Opinion
CHRIS STANLEY Special to Olean Times Herald 
Jun 29, 2022
Whatever one thinks about the Supreme Court’s recent decision to nullify the 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion decision, the reality is that we now live in a ...
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No, the conservative justices didn’t lie
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Jun 28, 2022
The left simply lost the intellectual and political fight over the direction of the Supreme Court but can't bear to it admit it. Progressives tell the...
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America’s Constitution is conservative, like it or not
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RAMESH PONNURU Tribune News Service 
Jun 27, 2022
Conservatives are, by and large, thrilled by the Supreme Court’s recent decisions. It has expanded its conception of gun rights that states have to re...
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Walking and chewing gum at the same time
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LYNN SCHMIDT Tribune News Service 
Jun 27, 2022
Democratic President Lyndon Johnson is reported to have said that then-Republican Rep. Gerald Ford “is so dumb that he can’t walk and chew gum at the ...
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Letter: Shame on the New York Legislature
Letters To Editor, New York, Opinion
Jun 27, 2022
Another legislative session has wrapped up here in New York state without a vote on the New York Health Act. There is no excuse for leaving unfinished...
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As the man said, know when to fold ’em
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
GENE LYONS 
Jun 23, 2022
As far as I'm concerned, Joe Biden is a national hero: the savior of our democracy, and as decent a man as has ever occupied the Oval Office. They oug...
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We’ve betrayed tens of thousands of Afghans
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Jun 17, 2022
It has been almost one year since the ugly U.S. departure from Kabul. Yet tens of thousands of Afghans who were promised special immigrant visas (SIVs...
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Garland’s dilemma grows as evidence piles up
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
GENE LYONS 
Jun 16, 2022
None of us wants to live in the kind of country where losing an election means going to prison. Russia, for example, or the proverbial banana republic...
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