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Beasley mess makes Bills job more difficult
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CHUCK POLLOCK 
Dec 24, 2021
Come Sunday afternoon in Foxboro, for Buffalo, the meeting with New England will come as close to being a playoff game as a regular-season matchup can...
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Free speech on campuses
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 20, 2021
Earlier this year, an organization called the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) released a report about the state of free speech on...
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US can’t escape from new, confusing Middle East
Opinion, Сolumns
ByTRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Dec 20, 2021
Last Monday, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett paid the first official trip by an Israeli leader to the United Arab Emirates, where he laughed and joked ...
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Bills got win but it wasn’t a ‘statement’
Columns, Football, Local Sports, ...
CHUCK POLLOCK 
Dec 20, 2021
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — What it certainly was … was a win. What it wasn’t was a statement victory. And that’s what the Bills were hoping for on a chilly ...
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Don’t count Trump out
Opinion, Сolumns
RAMESH PONNURU Tribune News Service 
Dec 19, 2021
People who think that Donald Trump’s influence on the Republican Party has been mostly malign are always looking for signs that it is fading. Matt Lew...
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RGGI fails Pennsylvania
Opinion, Сolumns
SEN. GENE YAW 
Dec 17, 2021
HARRISBURG — I’ve sounded the alarm over the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) in many public settings over the past several months. This unde...
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Much ado about nothing?
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 17, 2021
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows joined Fox News host Sean Hannity Monday in denouncing the House select committee investigation of the ...
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Ensure access to telemedicine
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 15, 2021
There is no such thing as good timing for a pandemic, but COVID-19 at least arose in an era when people could use technology to address their other me...
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The failure of ‘Latinx’
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Dec 15, 2021
What the progressive culture elite wants, it usually gets. Single-sex bathrooms changing overnight to all-gender or non-gender bathrooms? Done. Illega...
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Court doesn’t address safety
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 15, 2021
The legal back and forth is over and done. Pennsylvania’s mask mandate for schools is kaput. So now what? Now it is up to school districts to decide w...
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Bona can get back on track with win over VT
Basketball, College Sports, Columns, ...
JP BUTLER Special to the Era 
Dec 15, 2021
It wasn’t the outcome that fans had envisioned. This, its clash with UConn last Saturday at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., was going to be the...
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Suddenly, Bills’ season facing a crossroads
Columns, Football, Local Sports, ...
CHUCK POLLOCK 
Dec 11, 2021
It’s a bad week to be facing a potential season-saving game. And there’s also a bit of irony. Last year, after signing what many feel is the greatest ...
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Bonnies’ bench helped produce victory over UB
Basketball, College Sports, Columns, ...
CHUCK POLLOCK Special to The Era 
Dec 06, 2021
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — The festive atmosphere ended with less than a minute to play Wednesday night against Coppin State. Point guard Kyle Lofton, th...
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Belichick has the Pats back after stumble
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CHUCK POLLOCK 
Dec 04, 2021
For much of two decades, it was the Dolphins who were the Bills unquestioned AFC East rival with coach Don Shula as the primary villain. In 17 seasons...
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