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Sign language classes this fall
Local News, News
Jul 09, 2024
COUDERSPORT — Basic Sign Language, taught by Sheri Greene, will be held 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesdays from Aug. 27 to Oct. 8 (no class Sept. 3) live at t...
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Social media must self-police
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 27, 2022
Congressional Democrats are demanding that social media companies do a better job of policing threats against the FBI in the wake of the agency’s sear...
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Victory Day speech shows how Russia can be defeated
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
May 11, 2022
When Vladimir Putin stood on a Red Square podium Monday, at the annual celebration of the Soviet victory in World War II over Nazi Germany, he looked ...
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Speech never equals violence
Opinion, Сolumns
RYAN J. RUSAK 
Mar 29, 2022
FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — The slap seen ’round the world from Sunday night’s Oscars ceremony holds an important lesson on free speech. That was no dou...
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Biden can learn from another old president, Reagan
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Nov 23, 2021
Joe Biden turned 79 last week. He’s beginning to look his age. The president walks a little more stiffly now. His diction, once clear, sometimes sound...
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Beyond just Veterans Day
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 13, 2021
Everyone loves a veteran. Especially a politician. On Veterans Day, that pride and appreciation of those who stood up and did their duty when asked or...
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Wrong messenger, wrong fix
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 20, 2021
Former President Donald Trump is suing Facebook, Twitter and You Tube. They banned him, and he calls the ban censorship and casts himself as a champio...
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Biden’s sermon on voting rights
Opinion, Сolumns
MICHAEL McGOUGH Tribune News Service 
Jul 15, 2021
In his speech about voting rights on Tuesday, President Joe Biden told the audience at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia that he wasn’t...
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Speech is free for teens, too
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 28, 2021
Freedom of speech gained a victory this week with the 8 to 1 United States Supreme Court ruling that a Pennsylvania public school district had violate...
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Motherhood is not an end
Opinion, Сolumns
CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Jun 15, 2021
FORT WORTH, Texas — Paxton Smith, the 2021 valedictorian at Richardson’s Lake Highlands High School, spoke at her commencement about her opposition to...
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Facebook’s speech policies are absurd
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
May 09, 2021
It is said that medieval scholastic philosophers debated how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. If so, they didn’t have anything on the amorp...
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Burning books — digitally
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 10, 2021
Amazon dominates the book-selling industry in the United States, with roughly 53% of all physical book purchases and closer to 80% of all ebook purcha...
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Why can’t we have unity?
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 23, 2021
President Joseph Robinette Biden gave a fine inaugural address Wednesday. Instead of celebrating American might, as new presidents so often do in inau...
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How Trump could win, again
Opinion, Сolumns
JOHN M. CRISP Tribune News Service 
Oct 27, 2020
Americans who are voting for Joe Biden on Nov. 3 find comfort in polls that show him maintaining a significant lead over Donald Trump, even in some of...
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9/11 ceremony set for Smethport
Local News
Marcie 
Sep 09, 2020
SMETHPORT (EC) — Honoring and paying tribute to those who were lost in the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States 19 years ago, members of the Am...
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Local high schools honoring graduates
Bradford, Local News, News
May 29, 2020
Local high schools are finding innovative ways to honor graduates while keeping students and their families as safe as possible. Here’s how schools ar...
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What a show
Letters to Editor
Feb 20, 2020
Well, I got my bowl of popcorn to watch the Schiff and Nadler show. Just as boring as before; the same thing, over and over. What a waste of time. But...
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