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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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    Other Voices: Disappointing hyperbole
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    Other Voices: Disappointing hyperbole
    Jun 23, 2025
    Although not one to publicly voice my opinions out of a sense decorum, I am nonetheless compelled to respond to some comments reportedly made at the r...
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    Trump’s gamble could end in war — or a Nobel Prize
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Trump’s gamble could end in war — or a Nobel Prize
    Jun 23, 2025
    JERUSALEM (TNS) — While many are applauding President Donald Trump’s bold conduct in striking Iran’s nuclear arsenal, one wonders if there can really ...
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    Finally, U.S. chooses action over appeasement of Iran
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Finally, U.S. chooses action over appeasement of Iran
    By NOLAN FINLEY The Detroit News 
    Jun 23, 2025
    DETROIT (TNS) — One of my early reporting assignments at The Detroit News was to wait for a couple of frigid January days in 1981 outside the Redford ...
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    Guest Comment: Western public lands selloff means nothing in Pa.? Think again
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion, Outdoors
    Guest Comment: Western public lands selloff means nothing in Pa.? Think again
    By JED HAMBERGER 
    Jun 23, 2025
    Tucked inside the U.S. Senate’s budget-reconciliation draft cheekily dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” is a title that forces the Forest Service...
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    Turn down the temperature before it’s too late
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Turn down the temperature before it’s too late
    By KRISTIN MARCELL RealClearPennsylvania 
    Jun 20, 2025
    Last weekend in Doylestown, protestors gathered for a “No Kings” rally, holding signs that compared federal immigration officers to Nazis — one readin...
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    Pa. never had it this good with energy prices
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Pa. never had it this good with energy prices
    By ATHAN KOUTSIOUROUMBAS RealClearPennsylvania 
    Jun 20, 2025
    “You guys don’t know how good you have it.” That is typically not a winning message for politicians heading into an election year. Yet when it comes t...
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    Much to celebrate on Juneteenth
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Much to celebrate on Juneteenth
    Jun 19, 2025
    Complete freedom for slaves in the United States didn’t occur when many people think it did. An increased awareness of Juneteenth will help Americans ...
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    Dems only hate ‘tyranny’ when they’re not in power
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Dems only hate ‘tyranny’ when they’re not in power
    By CONNOR VASILE RealClearPolitics 
    Jun 19, 2025
    This past weekend, some 2,000 “No Kings” protests visited American cities in opposition of President Trump’s deportation efforts after violent riots e...
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    Sounding the alarm for Pennsylvania’s rural hospitals
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Sounding the alarm for Pennsylvania’s rural hospitals
    By NICOLE STALLINGS RealClearPennsylvania 
    Jun 19, 2025
    Pennsylvania’s rural hospitals are struggling. Declining patient volumes, workforce shortages, and chronic underpayment have left many on a lifeline. ...
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    Other Voices: As a veteran, I must respond
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Other Voices: As a veteran, I must respond
    Jun 18, 2025
    As a proud veteran of the U.S. Army, I have held my tongue long enough. But the comment (by a speaker at Saturday's local No Kings rally, which was co...
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    Other Voices: Drumbeat of hyperbole
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Other Voices: Drumbeat of hyperbole
    Jun 17, 2025
    In the June 10 Other Voices, a writer condemns President Trump for “each grievance, each lie, and each attack on our nation’s norms.” He goes on to wr...
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    Unused Covid quarantine pods
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Unused Covid quarantine pods
    Jun 17, 2025
    Nashville, Tenn. spent $1.2 million to buy 108 quarantine housing pods in 2021 during the Covid-19 pandemic, but the shelters were never used. Now the...
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    Are Pa. partisans flipping sides on Fetterman?
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Are Pa. partisans flipping sides on Fetterman?
    By CHRISTOPHER NICHOLAS 
    Jun 17, 2025
    HARRISBURG — Are the party positions on always-newsy senior U.S. Sen. John Fetterman flipping here in Pennsylvania? Fetterman continues to dominate th...
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    Sunflower Festival returns to Kane
    By SAVANNAH BARR s.barr@bradfordera.com 
    August 20, 2025
    KANE – Get ready to soak up the “sonshine” at the Second annual Sunflower Festival, happening Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Wilds Sonshine Factory, 3...
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    WellNow offers tips on healthy school year
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    WellNow offers tips on healthy school year
    By MARCIE SCHELLHAMMER marcie@bradfordera.com 
    August 20, 2025
    It's not just students and teachers gearing up for back-to-school, there are all kinds of germs and bugs just waiting to be passed around. Nicholas Cu...
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    Bradford man jailed for alleged strangulation
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    Bradford man jailed for alleged strangulation
    August 20, 2025
    A Bradford man is in McKean County Jail for allegedly strangling two women during confrontations Aug. 17. Montana Moore, 27, of 14 Cherry St., is char...
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    Registration open for 12th Annual Boys and Girls Golf Team Scramble
    Local Sports
    Registration open for 12th Annual Boys and Girls Golf Team Scramble
    Jo Wankel 
    August 20, 2025
    The Bradford Owls Golf Boosters are sponsoring the 12th Annual Boys and Girls Golf Team Scramble on Sunday, August 24th at Pine Acres. Tee off will be...
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    Public urged to share info related to boy’s death
    Crime, Local News
    Public urged to share info related to boy’s death
    August 20, 2025
    SMETHPORT — To assist in the investigation of the Aug. 14 death of 2-year-old Oakley Hedlund of Bradford, members of the public are asked to provide a...
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    Duke Center food pantry open Tuesday
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    Duke Center food pantry open Tuesday
    August 20, 2025
    DUKE CENTER — The Duke Center United Methodist Church Food Pantry will be open 10 a.m. to noon and 5 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at 26 Oil Valley Road. Pre-r...
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