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    UPDATE: Write-in votes making a difference in the primary
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    UPDATE: Write-in votes making a difference in the primary
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    May 21, 2025
    Unofficial results from the McKean County primary election are in — except for the write-ins. Countywide voter turnout was just 18.68% in total. There...
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    The Biden health saga should remind the media to tell the truth
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    The Biden health saga should remind the media to tell the truth
    May 21, 2025
    Even before Joe Biden’s diagnosis of prostate cancer, made public on Sunday, we were uncomfortable with the post-facto dissections of the events leadi...
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    Biden decline covered up? In reality, who didn’t see it?
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Biden decline covered up? In reality, who didn’t see it?
    DEBRA J. SAUNDERS Las Vegas Review-Journal 
    May 16, 2025
    WASHINGTON (TNS) —Penguin Presstouts its new book, “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” by...
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    Pa. Supreme Court must strike down Shapiro’s energy tax
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Pa. Supreme Court must strike down Shapiro’s energy tax
    ANDRE BELIVEAU RealClearPennsylvania 
    May 16, 2025
    The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has heard oral arguments about an energy tax looming over utility bills in the commonwealth: the Regional Greenhouse Ga...
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    Other Voices: DEI and our kids
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Other Voices: DEI and our kids
    May 16, 2025
    When I looked up DEI to understand what it was and why our country should be against it, I was really shocked. It sounds like a good thing to me. AI s...
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    Free plane is an awful look
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    Free plane is an awful look
    May 16, 2025
    President Donald Trump celebrates controversy. He also must revel in unnecessarily gifting his political opponents issues to exploit. That would appea...
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    Other Voices: Save public media
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    Other Voices: Save public media
    May 15, 2025
    Recently, the current administration indicated that they want to eliminate all funding for America’s public TV and radio stations, going as far as tak...
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    Turning Pa.’s poor rankings into a winning GOP agenda
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    Turning Pa.’s poor rankings into a winning GOP agenda
    ATHAN KOUTSIOUROUMBAS RealClearPennsylvania 
    May 15, 2025
    Pennsylvania’s latest national rankings are not just embarrassing — they’re a policy indictment. But for Republicans, they also offer something else: ...
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    Trump’s budget erases DOGE savings
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    Trump’s budget erases DOGE savings
    May 15, 2025
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    Traveling brings challenges and opportunities
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    Traveling brings challenges and opportunities
    DEB WUETHRICH 
    May 15, 2025
    I am so tired! But it is a good tired. Yesterday on the road, I wanted to call it “exhaustion,” but that’s such a negative word, especially where ther...
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    NPR’s trickle-up economics
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    NPR’s trickle-up economics
    May 14, 2025
    National Public Radio frequently claims that less than 1% of its funding comes from the federal government, an argument used to criticize President Do...
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    Biden 2.0: Dems throw Fetterman under the bus
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Biden 2.0: Dems throw Fetterman under the bus
    GUY CIARROCCHI RealClearPennsylvania 
    May 14, 2025
    “Truth is not a left-wing value.” Sadly, Dennis Prager’s teaching is correct. He could even consider a corollary: Integrity is not a left-wing value. ...
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    Trump can show leadership on Nippon Steel deal
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    Trump can show leadership on Nippon Steel deal
    JACK YOEST The Center Square 
    May 14, 2025
    Nobody likes to change their mind, but great leaders know that fluid situations require observing evidence on the ground to make the best decisions. T...
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    Latest attacks on free markets
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    Latest attacks on free markets
    May 14, 2025
    It is somewhat bewildering to watch the Republican Party morph into an economically left-wing party without anyone really caring. But that’s what is c...
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    Democrats plant their flag on issue of criminal illegal migrants
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    Democrats plant their flag on issue of criminal illegal migrants
    JOE BATTENFELD Boston Herald 
    May 13, 2025
    BOSTON (TNS) — It’s official: Democrats have decided to become the party of protecting illegal criminal migrants and gang members — and that is their ...
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    Pa. Dems worried about Supreme Court retention votes
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    Pa. Dems worried about Supreme Court retention votes
    GILLIAN McGOLDRICK The Philadelphia Inquirer 
    May 13, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS) —Pennsylvania'sbiggest race this election year won't be on the primary ballot. The candidates won't have political parties listed. An...
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    Skill games company is Goliath
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Skill games company is Goliath
    PETE SHELLY, DICK GMEREK and SEAN SCHAFER 
    May 13, 2025
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    Harvard and government funds
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    Harvard and government funds
    May 12, 2025
    Since 2017, Harvard University has received more money from the federal government than from its own students’ tuition, according to OpenTheBooks’ rev...
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    Is there more to the Fetterman story?
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Is there more to the Fetterman story?
    CHRISTOPHER NICHOLAS 
    May 12, 2025
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    Selling public lands to highest bidder an American tragedy
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Selling public lands to highest bidder an American tragedy
    KARL BROOKS The Idaho Statesman 
    May 12, 2025
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    Much work remains on trade
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    Much work remains on trade
    May 09, 2025
    The Trump administration took a step Thursday toward quelling economic uncertainty by unveiling a trade deal with theUnited Kingdom. TheWhite Housepro...
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    May 22, 2025
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    Keeping focus on the fun
    Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports
    Keeping focus on the fun
    By WADE ROBERTSON 
    May 22, 2025
    Pop Hayes and I sat quietly in camp after a big breakfast of bacon, eggs and home fries, just the two of us. That’s a breakfast I loved then and still...
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    ‘Round the Square: The Civilian Conservation Corps
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    May 22, 2025
    CCC: A recent Lumber Heritage Region newsletter had a fascinating story we wanted to share. It's about the Civilian Conservation Corps, the CCC, launc...
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    WADE ROBERTSON 
    May 22, 2025
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