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Trump injects more chaos into our politics
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Apr 11, 2023
The calendar for the 2024 presidential campaign just became a lot more complicated. Not the primary calendar. The trial calendar. Last week, former Pr...
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Fly to Mars? Maybe. But why?
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JOHN M. CRISP 
Apr 11, 2023
Last week NASA announced the names of the four astronauts who will crew Artemis II, a 10-day mission planned for November 2024. The expedition will bo...
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Drag performance demeaning to women?
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CYNTHIA ALLEN 
Apr 11, 2023
If you feel like drag queens are ubiquitous these days, you aren’t wrong. Whether it’s public libraries, advertisements or award shows, it seems like ...
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Bragg is already losing
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Apr 07, 2023
You don’t know what’s in the indictment. That was the line that progressives repeatedly threw at conservatives dubious about Manhattan District Attorn...
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A part of election security
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 07, 2023
Tightening rules on elections has been a hot topic in recent years. It’s an idea that has gotten top-down attention. Donald Trump brought heat to it w...
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NATO a vital balance to Russia
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 07, 2023
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is growing, and getting stronger as it does. It now has 31 member states. This makes the alliance, created in 1...
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Holding rail industry accountable
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 06, 2023
Pennsylvania’s U.S. senators are leading the push to hold the rail industry more accountable for ensuring the safety not just of the people who work i...
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Should US allow outsourcing of labor?
Opinion, Сolumns
SIMON HANKINSON Tribune News Service 
Apr 06, 2023
In 1896, the body of a baby, wrapped in a bag, was fished out of London’s Thames river. An investigation led to the hanging of Amelia Dyer, a “baby fa...
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Bad policy risks highway cash
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 06, 2023
Using billions of dollars in highway money to fund state police always was bad policy, but it’s even worse now that doing so could jeopardize Pennsylv...
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Farm bill still crammed with pork
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 05, 2023
Decades ago, when the late Nevada Sen. Harry Reid was relatively new to the upper chamber, a book arrived at the offices of a Las Vegas newspaper cour...
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GOP must get over fear of Medicare
Opinion, Сolumns
KARL W. SMITH 
Apr 05, 2023
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy sent a letter last week to President Joe Biden in which he admonished the White House for not taking more seriousl...
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Reform organ donor system
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 05, 2023
A quasi-governmental monopoly has handled the collection and distribution of donated organs in the United States for about 40 years, and there appears...
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The emphasis on faux community
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Apr 04, 2023
“Community” is one of those words that have been hijacked and ruined like “preferred,” “appropriation,” and “equity,” among many others. In the wake o...
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Indictment affirms an essential principle of justice
Opinion, Сolumns
JOHN M. CRISP Tribune News Service 
Apr 03, 2023
Count me among those who are skeptical about indicting former president Donald Trump on charges that he tried to cover up an affair by paying off a po...
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The persecution of Donald J. Trump
Opinion, Сolumns
SUSAN SHELLEY 
Apr 03, 2023
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Arrested for corruption or corruptly arrested? As of this writing, the former president of the United States and frontrunning GOP ...
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Flexibility to boost EMS funding
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 03, 2023
Communities across Pennsylvania struggle with an emergency of their own as they try to provide adequate emergency services amid rising demands, declin...
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