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Sempolinski will vote against Respect For Marriage Act
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, News, ...
RICK MILLER Olean Times Herald 
Dec 01, 2022
U.S. Rep. Joe Sempolinski, R-Canisteo, said he would vote against the Respect for Marriage Act passed earlier in the week by the Senate. In his weekly...
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Baseball, vaccines and the triumph of selfishness
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
JONATHAN ZIMMERMAN Chicago Tribune 
Jul 20, 2022
In April 1909, New York Highlanders first baseman Hal Chase was hospitalized with smallpox near the team’s spring training site in Georgia. The rest o...
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Biden’s migrant blackout at border
Local Columnists, Nation World
BYRON YORK 
Mar 18, 2021
Is there something missing from press coverage of the thousands of unaccompanied children who have illegally crossed the U.S. border from Mexico and a...
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Reed misses an opportunity
Leters to the Editor
Jan 14, 2021
In the Jan. 8 Times Herald, Congressman Tom Reed said something that cuts to the core of what’s wrong in Washington— and in saying it, he inadvertentl...
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Correction
News, Olean
Rick Miller 
Feb 01, 2020
Due to reporter error, an article on the 23rd Congressional District in Wednesday’s edition incorrectly stated the number of signatures needed on nomi...
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The Nixon vs. Trump discussion
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
GARY OSTROWER Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Jun 17, 2019
A well-informed newsman said to me recently that “In my opinion, Nixon was more dangerous than Trump. Do you agree?” No. And I disagree because althou...
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Why is this still ‘news’?
Commentary, Local Columnists
PATRICK VECCHIO, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Feb 22, 2017
When I taught introductory newswriting at St. Bonaventure, I would ask students two questions about stories they had written: What’s new here? What’s ...
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Guest Commentary: How will historians judge Obama?
Commentary, Local Columnists
GARY B. OSTROWER, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Jan 04, 2017
A reporter on the campaign trail tells a story about Obama that you probably never heard. When speaking at a Clinton rally in Fayetteville, N.C. a few...
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Home Again: Guess I’m one of the ‘old people’
Commentary, Local Columnists
DEB WUETHRICH Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Nov 21, 2016
I was coming out of a Sunday school class recently when a youngster met up at the door with his grandmother. The boy peeped past her into the room, an...
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