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How Joe Manchin got his superpowers
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
NICHOLAS GOLDBERG Tribune News Service 
Aug 07, 2022
By what possible definition of democracy is it OK for Joe Manchin, a single senator elected with a mere 290,000 votes from the tiny state of West Virg...
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Redistricting is a good thing
Letters To Editor, Opinion
Jul 31, 2022
In his article, “Despite Opposition, County Legislature Redistricting Passes,” Rick Miller failed to mention the multiple community members who spoke ...
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Congress moves to fix way it counts votes for president
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Jul 25, 2022
WASHINGTON — Last week, a bipartisan group of 16 U.S. senators agreed on a long-awaited proposal to fix the Electoral Count Act, the ramshackle 1887 l...
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The big lie about Georgia voting has been exposed
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
May 24, 2022
We all know what happens when a tree falls in an empty forest. What happens when a democracy emerges unscathed from a purported vile racist threat to ...
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Voting changes for New York
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Apr 24, 2022
New York has never been much of a leader in conducting easy, efficient elections, but there are a few ways that this year’s June 28 primaries will fin...
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Even parents in lib SF have limits
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 23, 2022
San Francisco is arguably America’s most progressive city, so the lopsided recall of three school-board members on Feb. 15 stunned political observers...
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A narrow escape
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
NICHOLAS L. WADDY Special to Olean Times Herald 
Jan 29, 2022
Conservatives celebrated the defeat of the Democrats’ “voting rights” bills on Capitol Hill. They should have, since these bills were a brazen attempt...
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Start over on voting rights, election security
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Jan 18, 2022
After months of wrangling, the U.S. Senate plans to vote this week on an ambitious Democratic bill on voting rights. The bill is already doomed. Senat...
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Joe Biden disgraces himself
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Jan 15, 2022
Well, it looks like we’re headed for autocracy, then. In his wisdom, Joe Biden decided to declare in his Georgia voting speech that there’s a crisis i...
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NY Democrats defy voters, pave way for fraud
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Jan 14, 2022
New York Democrats are so intent on locking in one-party rule, they’re blatantly defying what the voters just told them. The latest example: On Monday...
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GOP pushes back on Democratic ‘big lie’
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
BYRON YORK 
Jan 13, 2022
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Georgia Tuesday to push their party’s bill to federalize U.S. election procedures on ...
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Second Starbucks near Buffalo votes to unionize
Business, News, Western New York
DEE-ANN DURBIN Associated Press 
Jan 11, 2022
A second Starbucks store near Buffalo, New York, has voted to unionize, one of a growing number of the coffee chain’s stores seeking to organize worke...
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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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Who’s running your state’s elections?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Dec 14, 2021
Former President Donald Trump, in exile at Mar-a-Lago, isn’t acting much like a retiree. A week ago, he announced that his proposed media venture, Tru...
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