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    Home Comment & Opinion

    Comment & Opinion

    Can’t we all just be proud Americans?
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Can’t we all just be proud Americans?
    By ROD BISHOP RealClearPolitics 
    Jul 02, 2025
    As a military aviator and veteran of more contingencies than I care to remember, I watched with bated breath and prayers in my heart on the evening of...
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    There’s a ‘double-edged sword’ in your stomach
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    There’s a ‘double-edged sword’ in your stomach
    By F.D. FLAM Bloomberg Opinion 
    Jul 02, 2025
    NEW YORK (TNS) — It’s not always obvious which of the multitude of species of bacteria riding around in us should be classified as germs and attacked,...
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    Immigration’s big cost to states
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Immigration’s big cost to states
    Jul 01, 2025
    State and local governments spent an estimated $770 million in 2023 to incarcerate immigrants who had been in the country for less than three years, a...
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    Bombs now or nukes later: The new moral dilemma
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Bombs now or nukes later: The new moral dilemma
    By FRANK MIELE RealClearPolitics 
    Jul 01, 2025
    Every Philosophy 101 student knows the dilemma. If given the chance to kill Adolf Hitler years before his tyrannical ambitions unleashed death and des...
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    Guest Comment: To claim our independence again
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Guest Comment: To claim our independence again
    By DAVID E. FITZ 
    Jul 01, 2025
    My recent visit to the civic religious shrines and historical museums in Philadelphia highlights the threat executive power poses to democracy. In 177...
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    Social Security, Medicare clocks tick
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Social Security, Medicare clocks tick
    Jun 30, 2025
    As President Donald Trump and Congress fumble through his One Big Beautiful Bill on the budget for fiscal year 2025-26, they have been ignoring the ma...
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    No one can grasp trillions: Making sense of federal spending
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    No one can grasp trillions: Making sense of federal spending
    By IVO WELCH Los Angeles Times 
    Jun 30, 2025
    LOS ANGELES (TNS) — I’m a finance professor at UCLA, so let’s talk finance. Which numbers are more meaningful to you? Having $50 to $100 cash in your ...
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    Draining the swamp, Pa.-style
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Draining the swamp, Pa.-style
    By ATHAN KOUTSIOUROUMBAS RealClearPennsylvania 
    Jun 30, 2025
    It’s rare these days to find a proposal out of Washington that checks every box: common sense, bipartisan and pro-worker. That is exactly what Pennsyl...
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    Political violence must be stopped
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Political violence must be stopped
    Jun 27, 2025
    In Minnesota, a deranged gunman broke into a legislator’s house and shot her and her husband, killing both of them. He also killed their dog. The alle...
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    Calif. fueled immigration advocacy
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Calif. fueled immigration advocacy
    Jun 27, 2025
    Los Angeles has dominated the news cycle as residents protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s efforts to deport illegal immigrants, but the...
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    We need more teachers in Pa.
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    We need more teachers in Pa.
    By RYAN UNGER RealClearPennsylvania 
    Jun 27, 2025
    I have Thanksgiving dinner every year with only teachers. My mother, father, sister, brother-in-law, aunt, cousin and my grandmother, along with all m...
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    Where is Shapiro’s leadership on state budget?
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Where is Shapiro’s leadership on state budget?
    By STEPHEN BLOOM and MEGHAN MARTIN RealClearPennsylvania 
    Jun 27, 2025
    Gov. Josh Shapiro once said, “Leaders have a responsibility to speak truth.” Yet, truth be told, the governor’s lack of leadership on this year’s stat...
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    Tough love’s dividends in Europe
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Tough love’s dividends in Europe
    Jun 26, 2025
    Critics have lambasted President Donald Trump’s tough-love approach to Europe, but the president secured a major victory this week when NATO members a...
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    U.S. sovereignty over corporate profits every time
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    U.S. sovereignty over corporate profits every time
    By NICHOLAS L. WADDY 
    Jun 26, 2025
    Republicans, conservatives and Trumpers were horrified to learn earlier this month — in the wake of the pro-illegal immigration L.A. riots, no less — ...
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    State officials shouldn’t get goodies from giving out our money
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    State officials shouldn’t get goodies from giving out our money
    By DAVID MILLS Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    Jun 26, 2025
    PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The question is: Why should public monies given to private enterprises for public purposes include goodies for public officials? Is...
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    Tehran has only bad options
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Tehran has only bad options
    By CHUCK FREILICH and COLIN P. CLARKE Los Angeles Times 
    Jun 25, 2025
    NEW YORK (TNS) — Following the U.S. attack on Iran’s primary nuclear facilities at Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan, Tehran faces nothing but bad options. Mi...
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    Pa. can lead on term limits
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Pa. can lead on term limits
    By ANDY DINNIMAN and JOHN EICHELBERGER 
    Jun 25, 2025
    Washington has failed the American people. Career politicians in Congress continue to entrench themselves in power, prioritize partisan gamesmanship o...
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    Texas bets big on nuclear
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Texas bets big on nuclear
    Jun 25, 2025
    Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he “looks forward” to signing into law a $350 million subsidy for the nuclear energy industry after the state legislature ...
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    Pa.’s clean energy momentum in crosshairs of Big Beautiful Bill
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Pa.’s clean energy momentum in crosshairs of Big Beautiful Bill
    Jun 24, 2025
    PITTSBURGH (TNS) — A year ago, at a meeting of Pennsylvania's clean energy advocates, phrases like "the energy transition is here" and "unprecedented ...
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    Saturday’s strike on Iran was perfectly timed
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Saturday’s strike on Iran was perfectly timed
    By CHARLES HAMILTON RealClearDefense 
    Jun 24, 2025
    For more than two decades, the United States has employed every tool short of direct military action to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. S...
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    Where liberty lives this July 4th
    Local News
    Where liberty lives this July 4th
    By SAVANNAH BARR s.barr@bradfordera.com 
    July 2, 2025
    The spirit of independence and patriotism is strong across the region. There are several events and firework displays planned to delight locals lookin...
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    Bradford Majors fall to DuBois, 8-0
    Local Sports
    Bradford Majors fall to DuBois, 8-0
    Jo Wankel 
    July 2, 2025
    DuBOIS — Bradford Regional Little League (BRLL) Major Baseball All-Stars battled back from the elimination bracket for another shot at a championship ...
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    Structure main focus of Challengers-Ramblers Unified Scrimmage
    Local Sports
    Structure main focus of Challengers-Ramblers Unified Scrimmage
    Jo Wankel 
    July 2, 2025
    Wednesday night was perfect baseball weather, and the diamond at Pitt Field was a lively place. The Bradford Challengers and Rambler U14 players met o...
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    Bradford YMCA reaches 80% of annual campaign goal
    Local News
    Bradford YMCA reaches 80% of annual campaign goal
    July 2, 2025
    The Bradford YMCA announced it has reached 80% of its 2025 Annual Campaign goal of $112,000, thanks to the generosity and commitment of local donors w...
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    Steelers linebacker goes fishing to get back to ‘old self’
    Outdoors, Sports
    Steelers linebacker goes fishing to get back to ‘old self’
    By BRIAN BATKO Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    July 2, 2025
    PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Patrick Queen spends much of his offseason with a line out, sitting in a boat on a lake full of bass. His passion gives him plenty ...
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    Impostors
    Local News
    Impostors
    July 2, 2025
    Tawny, or orange, daylilies are a hallmark of summer, but aren't truly lilies. Often mistaken for lilies due to their similar shape, daylilies belong ...
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