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A very different type of president opens the Theodore Roosevelt Library
Donald Trump wants to be on Mount Rushmore. Teddy Roosevelt already is there in stone.
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Is Niagara Falls more popular than the Great Wall and the Great Pyramids?
Does Niagara Falls attract more tourists than either the Great Wall of China or the Great Pyramids in Egypt?Â
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The new term may be ‘affordability,’ but it’s ‘still the economy, stupid’
Republican Bruce Blakeman and Democrat Kathy Hochul are focusing on economic issues in their campaigns for governor of New York.
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Students in PolitiFact workshop hold public officials accountable
Holding public officials accountable through rigorous fact-checking is vital to our democracy.
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Bob Dylan and the inverted pyramid
The Bob Dylan song that folllowed the standard format of a news story.
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If you call my college roommate…
On the 150th anniversary of the first telephone call, here are some thoughts about today’s phone usage.
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Is a speech still the best way to deliver the State of the Union?
State of the Union addresses have become elaborate and sophisticated events. Is all the fanfare needed?
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The treason of the clerics
A lifetime academic explains why he is dismayed by today’s higher education leaders.
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Jandoli Institute begins another PolitiFact workshop
St. Bonaventure University students are once again working with PolitiFact Chief Correspondent Louis Jacobson and Jandoli Institute Executive Director Richard Lee to check facts and write articles for PolitiFact.
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Challenger explosion remains a vivid memory 40 years later
Jan. 28, 1986, was one of those days a journalist always remembers because it involved reporting a historic event — and in this instance an extremely tragic one.
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