opinion

No excuses for late New York budget
New York, Opinion
Apr 06, 2022
Should the state budget be finalized today or tonight or tomorrow or whenever — and regardless of how many extra billions it spends, including corpora...
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Is it irrational to love Upstate New York?
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union 
Apr 06, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — Warning! Residents of a certain region near and dear to our hearts might find that an upcoming quote triggers anger or emotional distre...
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What did Joe Biden know and when did he know it?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Apr 05, 2022
The walls evidently aren’t closing in on President Joe Biden. Despite the mainstream press finally taking up the sleazy business dealings discussed in...
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Letter: Tell your grandchildren
Letters To Editor, Opinion
Apr 04, 2022
Thirty-two years ago on April 5, Concerned Citizens of Allegany County (CCAC) and the Allegany County Nonviolent Action Group (ACNAG) turned back a fi...
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Parents let the culture teach their kids values
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Apr 04, 2022
FORT WORTH, Texas — In 2020, I wrote about how my family, which at the time included three preschool-aged children, opted to skip the Super Bowl to av...
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Biden goes big — real big — on defense budget
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Apr 04, 2022
WASHINGTON — Last week, President Joe Biden sent Congress his proposed defense budget for the next fiscal year: an $813 billion wish list, almost $60 ...
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Biden avoids tax solutions
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Apr 01, 2022
Biden’s “billionaire minimum income tax” is really a wealth tax — and it’s a bad idea for tax policy in general. On Monday, Biden rolled out a propose...
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Quit winging it and fly home, Putin
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
MARTIN SCHRAM Tribune News Service 
Apr 01, 2022
In 2012, Vladimir Putin took his media corps out to an Arctic peninsula in Siberia to showcase his leadership prowess for all the world to see. Then h...
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Clarence Thomas is better than his critics
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Apr 01, 2022
Clarence Thomas is, by far, our most abused Supreme Court justice. His confirmation hearings in 1991 were, as he memorably put it, a high-tech lynchin...
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RTW: Women and moral responsibility
Local Columnists, Opinion, Readers Turn To Write
BARBARA CASEY 
Mar 29, 2022
I was astonished to read in Kellen M. Quigley’s “Seneca Mothers Stand in Solidarity with Ukraine” (Olean Times Herald, March 9, 2022) that “prior to t...
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Cuomo for governor?
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
TOM WROBLESKI Staten Island Advance 
Mar 28, 2022
NEW YORK (TNS) — When is Andrew Cuomo going to get the message? Nobody wants him around anymore. The world has moved on. But the former governor is no...
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Elements of a peace deal in Ukraine are clear
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Mar 28, 2022
The war in Ukraine, which just entered its second month, shows no sign of ending soon. Russia’s huge but incompetent army has been stymied in its atte...
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Home Again: Power of suggestion can reel us in
Local Columnists, Opinion
DEB WEUTHRICH 
Mar 28, 2022
I am such a willing participant to the power of suggestion. I hope that doesn’t make me gullible to manipulation or overly impressionable, but it does...
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Still doing business in Russia
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 21, 2022
The military options for the U.S. and NATO in Ukraine are complicated. But the economic options aren’t: All global companies should pull out of Russia...
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An economist who was right about the pandemic
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
SAL RODRIGUEZ Los Angeles Daily News 
Mar 21, 2022
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — “One of the first lessons in an economics class is every action has a cost,” wrote the great libertarian economist Walter E. Willi...
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Ukraine’s resistance offers a useful lesson to Taiwan
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Mar 21, 2022
WASHINGTON — Russia’s war in Ukraine has taught the world’s autocrats some useful lessons: Invasions may be harder than they look. It’s unwise to go t...
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