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Why teacher pay is complicated and why education majors should stay here

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Reading Time: 3 minutesSETH MICHAEL MEYER Staff Writer   From West Virginia to Colorado, teachers have been striking across the country demanding more compensation for their work. Starting back in February, teachers in West Virginia staged a widespread strike that finally resulted in a pay raise of 5 percent. Similar events have since......
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Bernie Sanders’ proposed job guarantee warrants a lesson in economics

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Reading Time: 4 minutesSETH MICHAEL MEYER Staff Writer   When fictional president from House of Cards, Frank Underwood, announced his plan to guarantee a job for every American, everything I knew about economics cringed, and it’s cringing now. Senator Bernie Sanders, an Independent from Vermont, made for a unique presidential candidate by being......
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The Buffalo Diocese could do so much more

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Reading Time: 2 minutesDAN ORZECHOWSKI News Editor   Last week I wrote an article that connected a former chaplain of Fredonia’s Newman Center to sexual violence, and it was one of the toughest pieces I’ve had to write. I come from a small New England town, where Catholicism dominates the community. Growing up,......
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The NBA should allow players to join after high school, players should be able to go back to college if they go undrafted

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Reading Time: 4 minutesQUINTIN JAMES Assistant Sports Editor   The past few years in college sports, athletes and schools have gotten in some trouble over student athletes receiving improper benefits. The NCAA rules state that student athletes cannot make money off of their own likeness nor can they receive money from boosters and......
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‘Shut up and dribble’? Nah

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Reading Time: 2 minutesQUINTIN JAMES Assistant Sports Editor   During the NBA All-Star weekend, LeBron James and Kevin Durant were bombarded with questions about their response to Fox News’ Laura Ingraham’s “shut up and dribble” comments. In an interview with ESPN’s Cari Champion, James said, “We are at a watershed moment in this......
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Trump’s budget betrays his base and bolsters the uber-rich

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Reading Time: 3 minutesJAMES LILLIN Staff Writer   Many, if not most, of my relatives are fiscal conservatives. Oftentimes, the label is tacked on to a sentence announcing their conservative lean in an apologetic or conciliatory way — like ‘I’m a conservative, but a fiscal conservative, so if you want to marry a......
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OPINION – Dan Orzechowski

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Reading Time: 2 minutesDAN ORZECHOWSKI News Editor   Apparently MLK’s dream was to own a Dodge Ram. After the company spent upward of $5 million for a 30-second time slot in the country’s highest rated event on television, more than 100 million people heard the words of one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s......
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A Presidential Paradox: Trump uses first State of The Union to deepen divides

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Reading Time: 3 minutesJAMES LILLIN Staff Writer   In the aftermath of Trump’s slurred, rambling, self-congratulatory State of The Union address, there’s going to be a lot of debate over whether or not he was “presidential.” Certainly his frequent applause at his own lines was unusual for a State of The Union address,......
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A journalist’s critique of a consumer’s critique

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Reading Time: 3 minutesTRAVIS LEFEVRE Managing Editor   About two weeks ago, The Leader received a letter from a self proclaimed prophet and authorized Bible historian known as Ebenezer. It is essentially a wall of words titled “Conduct Unbecoming For a World Leader: A Consumer’s critique of the U.S. movie industry.” He goes......
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