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Big-city data warrant wage hike
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 20, 2023
Most of Pennsylvania’s neighboring states increased their minimum wages again with the new year, while the state Legislature has kept the minimum wage...
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Pa. lawmakers can reverse population exodus
Opinion, Сolumns
NATHAN BENEFIELD RealClearPennsylvania 
Jan 20, 2023
New data from the Census Bureau reveal that residents are fleeing Pennsylvania at an alarming rate. Pennsylvania lost nearly 40,000 residents to other...
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The Trump-Biden embrace
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Jan 20, 2023
America may not want a Trump-Biden rematch, but Donald Trump and Joe Biden sure do. A CNN poll late last year showed that 6 in 10 Republicans and Repu...
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Never Trumpers soldier on
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 19, 2023
The movement had a simple, clear-cut goal and an appropriately straightforward name: Never Trump. It began back in 2016, after Donald J. Trump started...
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NATO still holding important weapons from Ukraine
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN The Philadelphia Inquirer 
Jan 19, 2023
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — To understand why Russia’s war on Ukraine remains the key foreign issue for Americans in 2023, you should watch the video of a Uk...
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Josh Shapiro took Harrisburg. Is D.C. next?
Opinion, Сolumns
JONATHAN TAMARI The Philadelphia Inquirer 
Jan 18, 2023
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — When Josh Shapiro took the oath of office Tuesday on a trio of Bibles, he didn’t just become the leader of Pennsylvania governmen...
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Biden and the sanctuaries dilemma
Opinion, Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Jan 18, 2023
This column has written previously about the fundamental difference between Republicans and Democrats when it comes to the crisis on the U.S.-Mexico b...
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Santos stakes claim to greatness
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 17, 2023
George Santos is unbelievable. And that’s no exaggeration. Though folks routinely use the word “unbelievable” to refer to all sorts of things that are...
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Shapiro leads generation into power
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 17, 2023
Josh Shapiro, at 49, is Pennsylvania’s first post-baby-boom governor. Less certain is whether that will translate into better state governance. Pennsy...
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No, you can’t believe ‘the science’
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Jan 17, 2023
Copernicus surely had no idea when he got the Scientific Revolution underway in the 16th century that an unintended effect would be empowering agenda-...
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Suppression of inconvenient truths about COVID
Opinion, Сolumns
SUSAN SHELLEY - Tribune News Services 
Jan 16, 2023
Pfizer and the White House engaged in behind-the-scenes efforts to pressure social media companies into censoring truthful information about COVID-19 ...
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War in Ukraine could become long, frozen conflict
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Jan 16, 2023
According to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s grand plan, this was to be the hard winter that would break Ukraine and divide its allies in the West....
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Shapiro tries bipartisan diversity
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 16, 2023
The stateHouse of Representativespleasantly surprised battle-weary Pennsylvanians recently when it raised the possibility that it would attend to busi...
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