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Other Voices: A condemning silence
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 06, 2022
Marty Causer, Chris Dush and Glenn Thompson each swore an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic....
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Mastriano supporters won’t drop their challenges
Opinion, Сolumns
PAUL MUSCHICK The Morning Call 
Dec 06, 2022
ALLENTOWN (TNS) — Doug Mastriano got whooped in his attempt to be Pennsylvania’s next governor. The Republican state senator from Franklin County didn...
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The spies who deserve to be out in the cold
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Dec 06, 2022
The “Twitter Files” released by Elon Musk give us a more fine-grained understanding of how and why the social media company decided to censor the Hunt...
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Reserve impeachment for misconduct
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 05, 2022
State legislative Republicans remain committed to a dangerous political stunt that not only threatens to disenfranchise Philadelphians but jeopardizes...
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Pa. politicians’ NY state of mind
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 05, 2022
Billy Joel wasn’t talking about Pennsylvania politicians and their assorted supplicants and benefactors when he crooned that “some folks like to get a...
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Kids’ board game teaches about reuniting post-Trump
Opinion, Сolumns
CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Dec 05, 2022
FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — I spent the better part of a recent Saturday morning locked in an intense text-message debate with a dear friend. The topic ...
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Constitution reading on House floor
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 05, 2022
The midterm elections didn’t provide the red wave Republicans had expected, but they nevertheless gained a small majority in the House of Representati...
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Congress, no last-minute shopping at taxpayer expense
Opinion, Сolumns
E.J. ANTONI - Tribune News Service 
Dec 04, 2022
It’s happened to all of us: The holidays are here before you know it, and you’re scrambling for that last-minute gift. Maybe you procrastinated, but a...
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Pa. House puts kibosh on leases
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 04, 2022
A former local state representative once joked that he wisely kept his sparkling new state-leased vehicle out of sight in his home garage when he was ...
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Other Voices: Yes to police dept.
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 02, 2022
As a resident of Otto Township, I read with interest the letter from Jim Miller of Rixford (The Bradford Era, Nov. 29) concerning the establishment of...
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Profiting from inflation
Opinion, Сolumns
PAUL MUSCHICK The Morning Call 
Dec 02, 2022
ALLENTOWN (TNS) — Solidarity apparently has an expiration date. In 2020, at the height of the pandemic, Pennsylvania lawmakers unanimously rejected a ...
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CNN riddled with layoffs, cutbacks
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 02, 2022
The dismantling of CNN as the Democrats’ leading network could be on the way with layoffs and cutbacks putting the once-dominant media outlet in decli...
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If Trump 1.0 was chaotic, just wait
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Dec 02, 2022
Donald Trump’s allies praised him for his discipline during his announcement speech, when he mostly stuck to the script as written by his staff. Then,...
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Gaps in mental capacity law
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 02, 2022
Sometimes doing the right thing doesn’t fix the problem. In September, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court looked at the case of a mentally ill man convict...
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City mouse, country mouse
Opinion, Сolumns
GENE LYONS 
Dec 01, 2022
Back when my wife and I moved to the country, many of our citified friends were alarmed. One well-meaning fellow even questioned if I’d be safe out in...
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Xi caught in his own COVID trap
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Dec 01, 2022
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — The video of “Chongqing Superman” has gone viral amidst the explosion of protests across China against the government’s “zero COV...
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Trump gets played in Mar-a-Lago dinner
Opinion, Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Nov 30, 2022
What is sure to be one of the weirder moments of the 2024 presidential campaign has just taken place before the campaign is even fully underway. Here ...
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