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Enforce price transparency
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 12, 2022
A group of Democratic Pennsylvania lawmakers announced a bill Friday that would require price transparency from health care providers. It’s a good ide...
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Why is FBI choosing Biden’s opponent for him?
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Aug 12, 2022
Donald Trump has more than $100 million in his political war chest. But he has something even more valuable — an active FBI investigation against him....
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Fix Pa. mail-in ballot dating
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 11, 2022
Pennsylvania has an election problem that needs to be resolved. Elections can be complicated. Same with politics. But this is a ridiculously easy issu...
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Public deserves some answers
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 10, 2022
“O, what portents are these?” demands a deceptively observant character in “Henry IV.” Former President Donald Trump must be wondering much the same, ...
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86,852 new IRS employees
Opinion, Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Aug 10, 2022
You’ve probably heard Republicans say the Inflation Reduction Act — the massive spending bill just passed by Senate Democrats — includes provisions to...
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Pharma overpromised on antidepressants
Opinion, Сolumns
FAYE FLAM Tribune News Service 
Aug 09, 2022
The most popular depression drugs taken by millions don’t work by fixing an “imbalance of the brain’s neurotransmitters,” as many drug advertisements ...
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No, Joe Biden still isn’t a good president
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Aug 09, 2022
Every dog has his day, and apparently so does every miserably inadequate president. Joe Biden, who has been out-of-touch, tone-deaf and disturbingly i...
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Want economic mobility? Make friends at church
Opinion, Сolumns
CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Aug 08, 2022
FORT WORTH, Texas — The never-ending quest to understand why some people are more easily able than others to achieve the American Dream has a new, int...
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Everyone wins in the new budget bill
Opinion, Сolumns
CHRIS STANLEY Special to The Era 
Aug 08, 2022
If we had anything like a functional political culture in this country, the bill that Democrats are calling the “Inflation Reduction Act” would have s...
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Pelosi’s dangerous game in Taiwan
Opinion, Сolumns
JOE BATTENFELD Boston Herald 
Aug 08, 2022
BOSTON (TNS) — Narcissist Nancy Pelosi and her hot pink pantsuit played a dangerous and reckless game in Taiwan. Even if it’s part of a coordinated U....
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Assess Pa. recycling performance
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 08, 2022
Pennsylvania led the nation in 1988 when it adopted a progressive new law that vastly accelerated waste recycling, and there is little doubt that the ...
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Reform Pa. charter school laws
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 07, 2022
It’s highly unlikely that anyone turns cartwheels when they pay their property taxes, but the idea that the money is going to the school up the street...
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Who’s to blame for the priciest housing in history?
Opinion, Сolumns
JOEL GRIFFITH Tribune News Service 
Aug 07, 2022
With so much attention fixed on soaring prices for gasoline and groceries, one can almost overlook the fact that we’re also enduring an affordable hou...
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