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Legislators lose lease on patience
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 16, 2022
Nearly 20 years ago, when state Sen.Ed Helfrickwas asked why he thought it was appropriate to spend more than $600 of public money every month for his...
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Lessons for Pa. on drug laws
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 16, 2022
Fourteen Pennsylvania counties are currently part of the Law Enforcement Treatment Initiative (LETI), a program launched by Attorney General Josh Shap...
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Accusing Russia of genocide won’t halt war
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Apr 15, 2022
When Russian soldiers invaded Lubyanka, a village near the ravaged Kyiv suburb of Bucha, the Russians forced all the men to assemble in a central squa...
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Every day is Tax Day
Opinion, Сolumns
PRESTON BRASHERS 
Apr 15, 2022
The deadline for filing federal income taxes is later than usual this year. Tax Day has been pushed back to April 18 to avoid coinciding with the Dist...
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Standing against Putin’s tyranny
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 15, 2022
InSeptember 1938, British Prime MinisterNeville Chamberlainflew toGermanyto negotiate withAdolf Hitler. Brushing off warnings from the leader of Czech...
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Avian flu precautions in Pa.
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 15, 2022
There is a pretty good chance that a chicken or egg eaten somewhere in the U.S. came from Pennsylvania. The Keystone State is the fourth largest produ...
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Ghost gun rule does no harm
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 14, 2022
This week, President Joe Biden announced new measures to track the sale of “ghost guns,” untraceable firearms made from do-it-yourself kits. The new J...
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The Democrats’ Bidenflation disaster
Opinion, Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Apr 13, 2022
The government says inflation rose 8.5% in March compared to last year — the the worst it has been in 40 years, since the bad old days of 1981. While ...
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Turnpike needs more transparency
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 13, 2022
It has been about eight months since an internal Pennsylvania Turnpike report disclosed that more than $104 million in tolls went uncollected in 2020 ...
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Avian flu precautions in Pa.
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 13, 2022
There is a pretty good chance that a chicken or egg eaten somewhere in the U.S. came from Pennsylvania. The Keystone State is the fourth largest produ...
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Try these amendments, legislators
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 12, 2022
It’s hard to say exactly when the Republican state legislative majorities abandoned the legislative process, since they didn’t do much with it even wh...
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Can Amtrak handle growth?
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 12, 2022
Thanks to billions of dollars in new federal cash soon to be flowing from last year’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), it seems halcyon ...
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Thank your township supervisors
Opinion, Сolumns
DAVID M. SANKO 
Apr 12, 2022
You may read about them in the newspaper or see them along local roads, plowing snow in the winter or patching potholes in the spring. They’re your to...
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Russian way of brutality
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Apr 12, 2022
Russia has found just the man to lead its ongoing assault on Ukraine, Gen. Aleksandr Dvornikov. The top-level general takes over a war that had no sin...
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Our suffering world
Opinion, Сolumns
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ 
Apr 11, 2022
For the relative few paying attention, it seems impossible to keep up with the violence against Christians happening in Nigeria. A priest is killed; p...
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US has big stake in how the Ukraine war ends
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Apr 11, 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, now in its seventh week, shows no sign of abating. Vladimir Putin’s army has abandoned its assault on Kyiv, Ukraine’s ca...
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