Bradford Regional Medical Center submits closure notice; transitioning to outpatient care center
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Bradford Regional Medical Center submits closure notice; transitioning to outpatient care center
Transitioning to outpatient care center 
By SARA FURLONG  news@bradfordera.com  
February 17, 2026
(Editor's note: This story has been updated with additional information available from hospital officials and state Rep. Martin Causer Tuesday afterno...
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Other Voices: We need hospital choice
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Other Voices: We need hospital choice
Feb 23, 2026
Kaleida Health has hijacked our hospital and is holding us hostage. At the very least we desperately need the choice to be taken by ambulance to a hos...
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Despite ruling, tariff case not over
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Despite ruling, tariff case not over
Feb 23, 2026
Not surprisingly, the Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff agenda, ruling that the White House doesn’t have th...
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Trump running far tighter ship than first term
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Trump running far tighter ship than first term
Feb 23, 2026
Memories tend to be short in American politics, but it was not so long ago that Donald Trump was a first term president and, if we're to be honest, a ...
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Facing scary, menacing times
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Facing scary, menacing times
By DEB WUETHRICH 
Feb 20, 2026
Have you ever noticed periods in life when certain words keep coming to mind? Sometimes, they are terms that have become popular in our culture. At th...
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America at 250: A miracle at Philadelphia
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America at 250: A miracle at Philadelphia
By GENE PISASALE RealClearPennsylvania 
Feb 20, 2026
“It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States … should unite in forming a system of national Go...
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Dead Americans the Democrats ignore
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Dead Americans the Democrats ignore
Feb 20, 2026
Democrats don’t want you to notice the deadly consequences of not enforcing immigration laws. A partial government shutdown began over the weekend. Se...
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Falling crime numbers are welcome
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Falling crime numbers are welcome
Feb 20, 2026
Even good news generates controversy in these polarizing times. Violent crime is cratering in the United States, according to national statistics. Las...
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On Barack Obama and the aliens
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On Barack Obama and the aliens
Feb 19, 2026
We got a kick out of an old chestnut among conspiracy theorists — whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe and whether any of those a...
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Jackson, civil-rights icon, passes away
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Jackson, civil-rights icon, passes away
Feb 19, 2026
In the immediate aftermath of the Great Recession in October 2009, the Rev. Jesse Jackson addressed at the National Conference of Black Mayors in Las ...
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The year of the independent
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The year of the independent
By ADAM BRANDON RealClearPolitics 
Feb 18, 2026
Nearly half of Americans now refuse to identify as either Democrat or Republican. According to a recent Gallup poll, independents make up a record 45%...
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Can you hear me now?
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Can you hear me now?
Feb 18, 2026
No matter how far smartphone addiction spreads in America, it’s still impossible to keep texting from the grave. Yet state spending records say otherw...
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Lax fraud enforcement in Pennsylvania
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Lax fraud enforcement in Pennsylvania
Feb 18, 2026
Pennsylvania’s state government has reduced its investigation of serious financial crime, leaving Keystone State residents more vulnerable to fraudste...
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Welfare dollars are being wasted
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Welfare dollars are being wasted
Feb 17, 2026
All too frequently government programs for sympathetic causes are plagued by high levels of fraud. Consider Minnesota. Thieves systematically ripped o...
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Obamacare didn’t lower costs; time for better approach?
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Obamacare didn’t lower costs; time for better approach?
By NATHAN BENEFIELD RealClearPennsylvania 
Feb 17, 2026
After more than a decade dealing with the so-called Affordable Care Act (aka “Obamacare”), Americans are still struggling with rising health care cost...
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