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    UPDATED: Authorities investigating shooting death in city
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    UPDATED: Authorities investigating shooting death in city
    Sara Furlong s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
    June 7, 2025
    Police are investigating a shooting death that occurred Saturday afternoon in the City of Bradford. District Attorney Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer and...
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    Measles outbreak was entirely avoidable
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    Measles outbreak was entirely avoidable
    LISA JARVIS Bloomberg Opinion/TNS 
    Feb 28, 2025
    A measles outbreak inWest TexasandNew Mexicohas killed a child and sickened more than 130 people, and public health experts fear it’s only the beginni...
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    And you thought YOUR job was important
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    And you thought YOUR job was important
    J. PEDER ZANE RealClearPolitics 
    Feb 28, 2025
    I confess: I’ve always had back-handed respect for public sector workers. It seemed to me they had figured out how to earn decent money with great ben...
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    Is geothermal the next Pa. boom?
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    Feb 28, 2025
    Pennsylvania's rich oil history and the explosion of shale gas drilling over the last 15 years have brought more than fossil fuels to the surface: The...
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    Cutting red tape can supercharge growth — and tame inflation
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    Cutting red tape can supercharge growth — and tame inflation
    WILLIAM BEACH and PARKER SHEPPARD 
    Feb 28, 2025
    The Trump administration is doubling down on deregulation. Quite literally, in fact: Where the previous Trump administration removed five regulations ...
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    Cutting red tape can supercharge growth — and tame inflation
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    Cutting red tape can supercharge growth — and tame inflation
    WILLIAM BEACH and PARKER SHEPPARD 
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    Lack of training at FEMA
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    Feb 27, 2025
    Victims of natural disasters deserve the best help possible, so it’s important for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to monitor the companies it...
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    Violence in health care — a renewed call for support
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    Feb 27, 2025
    Editor's note: The following is a letter from the Western Pennsylvania Regional Chief Medical Officers Consortium in reaction to a shooting incident a...
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    Important drug research handcuffed by federal government
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    Important drug research handcuffed by federal government
    MATTHEW ESPENSHADE 
    Feb 27, 2025
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    What Jeff Bezos really wants
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    DAVID MILLS Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
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    The Inflation Reduction Act is over budget and underperforming
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    Feb 26, 2025
    The Inflation Reduction Act could be three times as expensive as originally believed, while falling short of its goals for cutting greenhouse gas emis...
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    Plastic in your brain? Don’t panic — yet
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    Plastic in your brain? Don’t panic — yet
    F.D. FLAM Bloomberg Opinion 
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    Reform Pa. cyber charter funding
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    Feb 26, 2025
    A recent report from Auditor General Tim DeFoor, a Republican, has found that Pennsylvania's cyber charter schools, deploying an archaic tuition model...
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    Other Voices: Enough is enough
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    Feb 25, 2025
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    White House records should be open
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    White House records should be open
    Feb 25, 2025
    Say what you will about the whirlwind first month of Donald Trump’s second term, but even his vocal critics couldn’t accuse him of avoiding the media ...
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    Billions spent on immigration aid
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    Billions spent on immigration aid
    Feb 25, 2025
    The Office of Refugee Resettlement spent $4.2 billion on grants in fiscal year 2024, bringing the agency’s five-year total to $22.6 billion since 2020...
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    Perceiving Trump’s endgame
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    Perceiving Trump’s endgame
    G. DIRK MATEER and CHARITY-JOY ACCHIARDO RealClearPolitics 
    Feb 25, 2025
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    Other Voices: It’s about making lives better
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    Other Voices: It’s about making lives better
    Feb 24, 2025
    Two our senators and representatives, What are you doing? I don’t feel safe in this country anymore. The military has weakened. Our health care feels ...
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    Guest Comment: Seeking real answers to DOGE questions
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    Guest Comment: Seeking real answers to DOGE questions
    JOHN M. CLELAND Special to The Era 
    Feb 24, 2025
    Our representative in the U.S. Congress, Glenn Thompson, is chair of the House Agriculture Committee. The committee oversees the U.S. Forest Service a...
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    ‘The certainty of arrest and return’
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    ‘The certainty of arrest and return’
    Feb 24, 2025
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    Trump risks making same economic mistakes as Biden
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    ALLISON SCHRAGER Bloomberg Opinion 
    Feb 24, 2025
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