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The nursing profession is rooted in strength
Opinion, Сolumns
PAULINE HOFFMANN Special to The Era 
May 08, 2022
Each May is National Nurses’ Month — a month-long celebration and commemoration of the work our nurses do to keep us healthy. National Nurses’ Week wa...
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Scalia was right — again
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
May 07, 2022
Justice Antonin Scalia was among the most prescient Supreme Court justices in American history, and the firestorm over the leak of Justice Samuel Alit...
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Fix business tax structure
Opinion, Сolumns
May 05, 2022
Pennsylvania’s corporate tax rate is higher than those of 42 of the other 43 states that tax corporate income. At 9.9%, it’s lower only than that of n...
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Lousy day for Supreme Court
Opinion, Сolumns
May 05, 2022
(Editor’s note: This is an editorial from the Chicago Tribune, distributed by Tribune News Service.) This editorial board long has supported a woman’s...
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America’s semiconductor problem
Opinion, Сolumns
May 04, 2022
America faces a serious economic and national security risk when it comes to the development and manufacturing of semiconductor chips that are integra...
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Property tax reform is overdue
Opinion, Сolumns
May 04, 2022
Pennsylvania property owners need better friends in Harrisburg. On Tuesday, the state House of Representatives passed a bill with the kind of overwhel...
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Other Voices: Lowry is no patriot
Opinion, Сolumns
May 03, 2022
The commentary, “Let Disney be an Example," by National Review editor-in-chief Rich Lowry, in theApril 23 edition of The Era,should be a wakeup call t...
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FDA finally moves on menthol
Opinion, Сolumns
May 03, 2022
The percentage of Americans who smoke fell from 45% in 1965 to 12.5% in 2020, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But mo...
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A shocking assault on the Supreme Court
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
May 03, 2022
Despite what you might have learned in high school civics, the Supreme Court really only has one role in our system of government — to uphold Roe v. W...
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Teachers lay the foundation for our children
Opinion, Сolumns
Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
May 03, 2022
It’s Teacher Appreciation Week. After all that time of having children at home, parents should be praising teachers from the rooftops this year. The p...
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Solve redistricting at fed level
Opinion, Сolumns
May 02, 2022
New York Democrats’ hyperpartisan gerrymandering violated the state Constitution, which voters amended eight years ago to establish a bipartisan redis...
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Let independents into primaries
Opinion, Сolumns
May 02, 2022
As itinerant millionaires pour money into denigrating one another to impress a small fraction of the state’s population, while ruining television for ...
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Biden crashing with Hispanic voters. Here’s why
Opinion, Сolumns
CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
May 02, 2022
FORT WORTH, Texas — Most home-school mom co-op conversations don’t delve too deeply into politics. But when the suddenly astronomical cost of feeding ...
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Can US deter Putin from using battlefield nukes?
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
May 02, 2022
WASHINGTON — Russian President Vladimir Putin reminded the world last week that he controls the world’s largest arsenal of nuclear weapons. It wasn’t ...
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Bad economic news, 1970s-style
Opinion, Сolumns
May 01, 2022
U.S. gross domestic product shrank 1.4% in the first quarter at the same time inflation continued to soar. For older Americans, that combination conju...
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Get warrants for metadata
Opinion, Сolumns
May 01, 2022
If the FBI or another law enforcement agency wants to tap a cellphone, monitor or other digital communications, or track someone through his digital d...
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