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Tariffs, special elections and breaking records: The current situation in Washington

Alex Bucknam
ALEX BUCKNAM  Asst. News Editor Washington has been busy these past two weeks with multiple events taking place, one being historical.  Such happenings include two special elections in Florida to fill the vacant seats in the House of Representatives. Additionally, the record for the longest Senate speech was broken and......
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University Police attempt to quell fears of ICE on campus

Dan Quagliana
DAN QUAGLIANA Managing Editor One of President Donald Trump’s central campaign promises was that he would immediately start “preparing to round up undocumented people already in the United States on a vast scale and detain them in sprawling camps while they wait to be expelled.” Now that Trump has taken......
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President Trump signs orders dismantling eight departments 

Alex Bucknam
Over the last few weeks, President Donald Trump has issued two executive orders that directed eight departments/ agencies to dismantle themselves, including the Department of Education (ED) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).   On March 14, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Continuing the Reduction of......
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Local TV station owner Phil Arno shares insight into reality of news industry

Contributor to The Leader
ABBIE MILLER Editor-in-Chief While he spent a lot of his career behind the silver screen, there is nothing two-dimensional about Phil Arno. This is exactly the thought process that led Communications Professor Mike Igoe to choose the WBBZ TV Owner as a guest speaker for his journalism class.  Arno described......
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Trump signs flurry of executive orders in his first week back in office

Alex Bucknam
ALEX BUCKNAM Asst. News Editor  Donald Trump isn’t wasting any time getting acclimated to the White House for his second term. President Trump was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2025, in the rotunda of the United States Capitol due to the cold temperatures Washington, D.C. was facing.  He is the second......
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Campus Life and Student Affairs unveil policy regulating on-campus assemblies

Dan Quagliana
DAN QUAGLIANA Managing Editor Some of the most memorable events from the past year at SUNY Fredonia have been the protests organized by the student advocacy group Students for Fredonia. These protests have been organized to raise awareness and rally students against the various program cuts enacted by Fredonia’s administration.......
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Construction projects continue despite multi-million dollar deficit

Alex Bucknam
ALEX BUCKNAM Asst. News Editor  Fredonia is facing budget issues, causing the administration to cut majors and look at potential minors to cut.  But why is there so much construction if Fredonia is facing such a big deficit? The simple answer to this is that the construction money doesn’t come......

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