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George Santos stakes claim to greatness
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 17, 2023
George Santos is unbelievable. And that’s no exaggeration. Though folks routinely use the word “unbelievable” to refer to all sorts of things that are...
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Borrello named chair of Senate GOP campaign committee
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Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
Jan 13, 2023
State Sen. George Borrello has been named campaign committee chairman for New York Senate Republicans in the upcoming election cycle. Senate GOP Leade...
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Remember the hysteria over Trump tax returns?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
BYRON YORK 
Jan 05, 2023
On Dec. 30, as Washington shut down for the Christmas-New Year holidays and Republicans prepared to take over the House of Representatives, Democrats ...
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The divided Congress must still govern
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 04, 2023
Today begins the 118th session of — don’t laugh — the world’s longest-running and arguably best-functioning national legislature, the two houses of th...
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Sinema misses the point about party politics
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
JONATHAN BERNSTEIN Tribune News Service 
Dec 13, 2022
Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema declared herself a Marxist on Friday. Not Karl; Groucho. As in, “I refuse to join any club that would have me as a memb...
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GOP in House must change course on wasteful spending
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DAVID DITCH Tribune News Service 
Dec 11, 2022
This holiday season, working families across America are struggling through the worst bout of inflation in decades. A typical household has lost more ...
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Will Kathy Hochul govern like she’s from Upstate?
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union 
Nov 30, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — This much is clear: Kathy Hochul is the first candidate from Upstate New York to win a governor’s race in many years. How many? That de...
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Midterms, Biden’s agenda and the filibuster
Letters To Editor, Local Columnists, Opinion
BYRON YORK 
Nov 02, 2022
On March 2, 2021, when he had been president less than two months, Joe Biden met with a group of liberal historians in the White House East Room. The ...
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