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Eyes bigger than stomach? Take a pill

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The Dyson Airwrap is $749.99. The Netflix you want, without ads, with all of the content recorded in Ultra HD, costs $26.99. SKIMS just collab’d with Nike, and the collection just dropped, and it’s hot, and it’ll run you $129 (plus shipping and handling) for a pair of leggings with a 29-inch inseam.  It’s not required that you buy any of these things (even though everyone has it/that/them, from your circle of real-life friends to the one in your phone), but it certainly doesn’t hurt. Overconsumption doesn’t stop at ...

Eyes bigger than stomach? Take a pill

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The Dyson Airwrap is $749.99. The Netflix you want, without ads, with all of the content recorded in Ultra HD, costs $26.99. SKIMS just collab’d with Nike, and the collection just dropped, and it’s hot, and it’ll run you $129 (plus shipping and handling) for a pair of leggings with a 29-inch inseam.  It’s not required that you buy any of these things (even though everyone has it/that/them, from your circle of real-life friends to the one in your phone), but it certainly doesn’t hurt. Overconsumption doesn’t stop at ...

Democrats are having an election

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Editor's note: This column has been updated with a time correction for Saturday's debate. There hasn’t been much publicity about it, but the Democrats are having a Primary Election on Tuesday, June 23. Democrats are noted for being somewhat scrappy and independent-minded, so this should not be a surprise. As a matter of fact, having elections is a good thing. There are two individuals who are now vying for the Democratic nomination to run against our current Congressman in the fall election–Aaron Geis and Kevin Stocker. Since Geis is from the Southern Tier (Olean,) he might be ...

The OBSERVER’s View: Strong support seen for control board

The OBSERVER’s View

Over the last week, more than 600 observertoday.com website viewers gave us their opinion regarding “Do you favor a control board for the city of Dunkirk?” Along the lines that have been written on social media and in several discussions, the poll found an overwhelming 89.66% in favor while 10.34% against. Current council members, at the moment, have not once talked about whether they approve of this direction or not. What’s more concerning is they barely have answers when looking to 2027 on how to make ends meet. As readers may have noticed within the last six months, Dunkirk is ...

The OBSERVER’s View: Add dental plans to state marketplace

The OBSERVER’s View

Too many senior citizens in New York state don’t have access to affordable dental care. That fact makes it hard to disagree with legislation (A.11235/S.7594) introduced by Assemblywoman Rebecca Seawright and Sen. Cordell Cleare that would require the NY State of Health Marketplace to require companies offering health insurance plans on the marketplace to also offer at least one dental plan for senior citizens. There are too many senior citizens paying out of pocket for dental care in New York state – and that means there are many who aren’t getting dental care at all because they ...

Rallies for peace bring vandals, violence

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At an anti-ICE rally recently in Minnesota, a burly bully belligerently shoved a petite Hispanic woman from her blindside to the blacktop. This was after the woman was assaulted by an onslaught of screams, curse words and obscenities as unhinged protesters blew whistles and horns in her ears. The tactics the anti-ICEers do to ICE were despicably deployed on the traumatized female reporter merely observing, not engaging or even interviewing. For simply showing up, Savannah Hernandez of TPUSA suffered a concussion, after being body slammed by an angry man in a mean-spirited Antifa-like ...