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DENNIS LYONS / The Daily Item 
Mar 22, 2022
SUNBURY (TNS) — Each year, journalists and others who care about a free and vibrant press mark Sunshine Week, which came around last week. It’s a time...
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The violence and abuse women face behind closed doors
Opinion, Сolumns
ROBIN ABCARIAN - Tribune News Service 
Mar 22, 2022
A couple of things unrelated to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine recently caught my eye, reminding me that while this conflict will event...
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Vladimir Putin and the fragility of order
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Mar 22, 2022
An invading army surrounds a European city, cuts off its supplies, bombards it, and demands surrender. Is it 1346? 1631? 1870? 1941? Or 2022? The answ...
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Still doing business in Russia
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 21, 2022
The military options for the U.S. and NATO in Ukraine are complicated. But the economic options aren’t: All global companies should pull out of Russia...
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Quit messing with our clocks
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 20, 2022
As soon as the U.S. Senate passed a surprise bill declaring that daylight saving time would be in operation all year, lobbyists for early birds leapt ...
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Biden can help fight inflation
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 20, 2022
With U.S. inflation standing at a 40-year high of 7.9%, the Federal Reserve has finally begun to tighten monetary policy, with a small initial increas...
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Gut check time for US
Opinion, Сolumns
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ 
Mar 20, 2022
Who are we as a nation? While the answer may lead to policy debates, a serious consideration of who and what we are about is critical to getting out o...
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Pressure pro-Russia businesses
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 20, 2022
In his address to Congress last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy implored the United States to provide the materiel he needs to hold off ...
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Women entrepreneurs vital to economy
Opinion, Сolumns
JOHN FLEMING 
Mar 18, 2022
The U.S. Small Business Administration joins the rest of the nation in celebrating Women’s History Month. Our Cabinet level agency is committed to sup...
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Standing for values instead of personalities
Opinion, Сolumns
LYNN SCHMIDT Tribune News Service 
Mar 18, 2022
William Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet” etched in the minds of people the world around the famous phrase, “What’s in a name? That which we call ...
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Prohibition doesn’t work
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 18, 2022
Over the last decade, Americans have increasingly embraced regulation and taxation of marijuana over the failed policy of prohibition. And yet, this s...
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Ron DeSantis and the new Republican Party
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Mar 18, 2022
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had another moment that lit up the right, this time pushing back against Disney’s critique of the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” ...
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Why not a Pa. gas tax holiday?
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 17, 2022
On Monday, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf joined his counterparts in Colorado, Michigan, New Mexico and Wisconsin in appealing to congressional leaders. M...
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Looking for more Marinas
Opinion, Сolumns
GENE LYONS 
Mar 17, 2022
I find myself awed and somewhat shamed by the moral authority and enormous courage of Marina Ovsyannikova, the woman who materialized on the set of Ru...
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Sunshine on government keeps you informed
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BRAD SIMPSON President, Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association 
Mar 17, 2022
A new Pennsylvania law protects your right to be informed about what issues government officials plan to deliberate or act upon at public meetings. Th...
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Stop China from aiding Russia by helping Ukraine
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Mar 16, 2022
The Biden administration hoped it could focus on China and not worry about Russia. But the war in Ukraine has proved this was a fantasy as China consi...
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