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Biden calls for more plundering of taxpayers
Opinion, Сolumns
PRESTON BRASHERS Tribune News Service 
Mar 19, 2023
Farmers know a thing or two about stewardship. If they don’t take care of their land, eventually it will cost them their livelihoods. Unlike farmers, ...
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Key Pa. industry green, growing
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 19, 2023
Pennsylvanians voted with their feet during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, discovering or rediscovering state parks and forests as a vast outdoo...
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Paying for police in Pa.
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 17, 2023
A Pennsylvania Senate bill would see state police get less money from a dedicated pool with a different purpose. The Motor License Fund is a coffer se...
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The desperate front-runner
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Mar 17, 2023
Social media exposes all of us, but perhaps none more so than the former president of the United States. Donald Trump’s Truth Social account is a dail...
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Dragged into culture war
Opinion, Сolumns
LYNN SCHMIDT Tribune News Service 
Mar 17, 2023
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — For those of you who think the culture wars do not affect regular people, I am here to tell you they do. In the past I have written t...
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Western allies counter China
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 17, 2023
If you aren't worried about Chinese leaderXi Jinping'slongterm plans, you haven't been paying much attention to what he has been up to. In theSouth Ch...
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CO detector giveaways is not a solution
Opinion, Сolumns
PAUL MUSCHICK The Morning Call 
Mar 16, 2023
ALLENTOWN (TNS) — Five months after a dangerous situation at an Allentown child care center, the state of Pennsylvania finally has taken action to pro...
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Ideology, expediency trump common sense
Opinion, Сolumns
NICHOLAS WADDY 
Mar 16, 2023
We learned recently that, once again, Novak Djokovic, the world’s greatest tennis player, will be barred from competing in the U.S. because he isn’t v...
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Biden policies threaten seniors
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 16, 2023
Older Americans tend to vote, and they also tend to be wary of politicians who propose entitlement reform. That combination typically leads to inertia...
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States reject fraud fight
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 16, 2023
Conspiracy theorists who claim falsely that the nation's electoral systems are awash in vote fraud often note that voter registration lists contain th...
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Solving Pa.’s school staffing crisis
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH ASKEY 
Mar 15, 2023
What do Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the Republican governor of Arkansas, and Michelle Lujan Grisham, the Democratic governor of New Mexico, have in common...
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Let sun shine on government
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 15, 2023
It’s Sunshine Week across America, and not because daylight saving time ensures brighter evenings. The week is an annual observance of the crucial rol...
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Will Biden help propel Ukrainian victory?
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN The Philadelphia Inquirer 
Mar 14, 2023
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — As Russia’s war on Ukraine enters its second year, more and more Americans are asking when it will end. The morally correct respo...
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Shakespeare is not about whiteness
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Mar 14, 2023
Shakespeare has long been dismissed, with others in the Western canon, as a dead white male. Now, there’s another, worse charge against the bard — he ...
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College enrollments declining
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 14, 2023
Has the nation reached a tipping point when it comes to the soaring cost of a college education? Declining enrollment numbers should be a warning to i...
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The censorship-industrial complex must be broken
Opinion, Сolumns
SUSAN SHELLEY Tribune News Service 
Mar 13, 2023
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Every once in a while, events come together like the last act of a play by Agatha Christie. Because Rep. Kevin McCarthy had to mak...
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Biden opens bidding; where’s GOP plan?
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Mar 13, 2023
President Joe Biden unveiled his $6.8 trillion budget proposal last week, and it drew the customary jaded responses: a work of fiction. A party platfo...
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