u.s. capitol

NY elected officials reflect on Capitol riot
News, NY State News
RICK MILLER Olean Times Herald 
Jan 07, 2022
On the one-year anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol Thursday, U.S. Rep. Tom Reed said it was “one of the darkest days of my congressional ca...
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Yes, Jan. 6 was a big deal
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
LYNN SCHMIDT Tribune News Service 
Jan 06, 2022
Democratic strategist James Carville famously coined the phrase “the economy, stupid” during Bill Clinton’s successful White House bid in 1992. On the...
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Schumer’s Jan. 6 cynicism
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Jan 05, 2022
On Jan. 6, 2021, rioters seeking to disrupt the counting of electoral votes breached the U.S. Capitol and rampaged for hours before order was restored...
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Letter: In defense of our democracy
Letters To Editor, Opinion
Jan 04, 2022
Two mock tools for execution were erected outside of the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021. One — a cross — was a brutal form of capital punishmen...
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Washington, D.C., shouldn’t be an armed camp
Local Columnists, Nation World
RICH LOWRY 
Feb 18, 2021
Washington, D.C., is not, counter to what you might think, a war zone. The city isn’t divided down the middle between the forces of the United States ...
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Donald Trump’s disgusting coda
Local Columnists, Nation World
RICH LOWRY 
Jan 09, 2021
There’s a reason we expect presidents of the United States to say that they support the peaceful transfer of power. Donald Trump has never committed t...
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Reed doesn’t believe Trump should be removed or impeached
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Local News, ...
RICK MILLER Olean Times Herald 
Jan 08, 2021
U.S. Rep. Tom Reed doesn’t believe President Trump should be removed a day after he egged supporters on to riot, break into the Capitol and terrorize ...
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One of this country’s darkest days
Local Columnists, Nation World
Jan 07, 2021
A mob riled up by a demagogue storming the seat of government and forcing elected leaders inside to flee is the stuff of the Third World. It was not p...
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