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Can we afford better cancer screenings?
Opinion, Сolumns
FAYE FLAM Tribune News Service 
Oct 27, 2022
Patients and their doctors count on cancer screening tests to save lives, and yet a number of large, controlled studies are showing disappointing resu...
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Midterms: Much ado about nothing
Opinion, Сolumns
GENE LYONS 
Oct 27, 2022
As Election Day approaches, I often find myself thinking of H.L. Mencken. Particularly during off-year contests. “The Sage of Baltimore,” as he was kn...
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Putting country, state or county over party
Opinion, Сolumns
LYNN SCHMIDT Tribune News Service 
Oct 26, 2022
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (TNS) — What if the way to break through our polarized politics was to reward those willing to cross the partisan divide for the greate...
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Joe Biden’s ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ slander
Opinion, Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Oct 26, 2022
Early voting began in Georgia several days ago. There is, of course, intense interest in both the state’s Senate race, with University of Georgia foot...
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Where have all the English majors gone?
Opinion, Сolumns
NICHOLAS GOLDBERG Tribune News Service 
Oct 25, 2022
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — It’s not exactly news that the humanities are in decline and college students are turning toward skills-based and career-focused f...
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Capitalize on Main St. innovation
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 25, 2022
Even though Pennsylvania is among the nation’s foremost centers of high-tech research and development, it still is better known for the legacy industr...
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Great art is not an enemy of the climate
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Oct 25, 2022
Climate activists have found a new target — the greatest masterpieces in the history of Western art. Heretofore, no one thought that Claude Monet’s “H...
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Subsidies no help to workers
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 24, 2022
Microchips control the functions of everything from computers to refrigerators, from SUVs to missiles. They are crucial not only to the economy but to...
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Higher ed tuition rates must come down
Opinion, Сolumns
JAY AMBROSE Tribune News Service 
Oct 24, 2022
Whither America? I don’t know and I hate discouraging news but how do you avoid it because, even when you look at higher education, you have to lower ...
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Divided government will be an unholy mess
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Oct 24, 2022
WASHINGTON (TNS) — With Election Day two weeks away, Republican prospects of taking control of the House of Representatives , already strong, appear t...
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Other Voices: Lockstep no votes
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 24, 2022
Bradford will enjoy the long-term benefits of the $859.334.24 provided by the American Rescue Plan. May I point out not a single Republican in either ...
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Why predictions of abortion driving votes are flopping
Opinion, Сolumns
CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Oct 23, 2022
FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — When the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision came down in June and overturned Roe v. Wade, pro-lifers everywhere rejoiced. Their ...
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Out-of-state money influences Pa.
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 20, 2022
There is a difference between votes and money. Or at least there should be. The overlap has existed forever, which is unsurprising. When the country w...
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