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The new American way of getting everything wrong
Opinion, Сolumns
JAY AMBROSE Tribune News Service 
May 01, 2022
Compassion is so, so important if civilization is to rise to the heights most of us wish for, but compassion without wisdom can produce Karl Marx comm...
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Musk faces tall Twitter task
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 29, 2022
Elon Musk made a big purchase this week. You may have heard. Some billionaires buy yachts, jets or islands. Musk’s vanity purchases venture into uncha...
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Fairly fund Pennsylvania schools
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 29, 2022
In attempting to defend the indefensible in a Commonwealth Court trial, state legislative leaders who concocted the demonstrably unfair funding of Pen...
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Don’t weaponize the 14th Amendment
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Apr 29, 2022
Politics would be a lot simpler if one side could prevent the other from running for office. The left believes that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment is...
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Vaccines: A long life for all
Opinion, Сolumns
PAULINE HOFFMANN Special to The Era 
Apr 28, 2022
We are in the middle of two very important health care-themed weeks: World Immunization Week and National Infant Immunization Week. I know, I know, we...
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Learn from the COVID crisis
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 28, 2022
The pandemic is almost over — we think. Not as a medical fact. COVID-19 will be around forever, just like the cold and the flu, but it no longer domin...
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Blame Washington, not Putin, for rising prices
Opinion, Сolumns
E.J. ANTONI - Tribune News Service 
Apr 28, 2022
How out of control is inflation? One measure says it all: Prices are now rising as fast in one month as they used to rise in a whole year when Preside...
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With Twitter comes responsibility
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 27, 2022
One of the world’s most influential social media platforms will soon be under the private ownership of the world’s richest person. What could possibly...
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PIAA, just say no to NIL
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 27, 2022
The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association should forbid name, image and likeness deals for its athletes. It’s bad for high school sports, ...
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Time to audit Twitter censorship
Opinion, Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Apr 27, 2022
New Twitter owner Elon Musk is vowing to reform the social media platform. “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the ...
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Distracted driving is a killer
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 26, 2022
Not too many years ago the biggest problem with vehicle accidents was usually driving while impaired. People got drunk or took too many drugs, and tri...
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In defense of Vikings
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Apr 26, 2022
The world clearly doesn’t have enough Viking movies, so here is “The Northman” to fill the gap. Critics have called the revenge epic based on the lege...
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Mask mandate had to end
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 25, 2022
Flight attendants celebrated in the aisles and passengers cheered when a federal judge in Florida finally reined in the overreaching of the Centers fo...
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Keep nuclear power in mix
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 24, 2022
Part of the reason that Germany continues to help Vladimir Putin fund his war in Ukraine, by buying large amounts of oil and gas, is that it nearly ha...
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