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Searching for supplements is a chore
Opinion, Сolumns
DEB WUETHRICH 
Jan 22, 2025
It always comes before me at the start of a new year. I don’t know if it’s like this on network channels, but I watch a news channel that seems to der...
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A rural Pa. hospital fiasco
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 21, 2025
The injection of private equity into the health care industry is disastrous for patients and the communities that depend on rural hospitals. Amidst pr...
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An eventful day in US history
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 21, 2025
Donald Trump promised “shock and awe” during the first days of his presidency. He didn’t disappoint the majority of Americans who understood that the ...
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Putting an end to Trump Derangement Syndrome
Opinion, Сolumns
J. PEDER ZANE RealClearPolitics 
Jan 21, 2025
My name is Peder and I suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome. My case is not full-blown — I don’t contend that the incoming president is a fascist be...
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For Pa. GOP, engagement with Hispanics a priority
Opinion, Сolumns
ALBERT EISENBERG RealClearPennsylvania 
Jan 21, 2025
Hispanic voters in Pennsylvania were not just consequential but decisive in 2024, shifting by double digits toward Republicans and showing up at highe...
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MLK’s hopes for U.S. echo still
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 20, 2025
Monday we celebrated the teachings and words and, most of all, the actions of the Rev.Martin Luther King Jr. He was assassinated at 39 years old, but ...
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The show hearings continue
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 20, 2025
TheSenatebegan the show hearings for Donald Trump’s presidentialCabinetnominees last week. ManyDemocratsdid not distinguish themselves. The most conte...
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Can Fetterman influence Trump?
Opinion, Сolumns
ADRIANA E. RAMIREZ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
Jan 20, 2025
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — After his visit with just-about-to-be president Donald Trump in Mar-a-Lago, many members of Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman's base...
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Still some hard feelings
Opinion, Сolumns
JOE BATTENFELD Boston Herald 
Jan 17, 2025
BOSTON (TNS) —For the second time this month, former first ladyMichelle Obamais snubbingDonald Trump, yet another sign that sore loserDemocratscan’t h...
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Republicans have chance to seize the moment
Opinion, Сolumns
MATT WYLIE The Charlotte Observer 
Jan 17, 2025
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (TNS) — President Joe Biden’s farewell address to the nation was quintessential Biden. He wove in folksy stories of America’s past. He...
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Trump must stick Gaza ceasefire
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 17, 2025
WhichU.S.president gets credit for theGazaceasefire, the one incoming or the one outgoing? Who cares? Let’s just say both administrations did their pa...
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Trump and the Middle East deal
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 16, 2025
Donald Trump’s imminent return is already paying dividends on the world stage. IsraelandHamas have agreed to a ceasefire and hostage deal. While detai...
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Other Voices: Tried and failed
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 16, 2025
Has there been a real-world test of the Trump/Musk taxation plans? Yes, and it failed. Former Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback ran for office in 2010 on the ...
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Amid devastation, a takedown of Calif. political class
Opinion, Сolumns
DEBRA J. SAUNDERS Las Vegas Review-Journal 
Jan 16, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — ActressSara Fostercaptured the rage of many Angelenos who have watched their city burn from the Palisades toAltadenain one social m...
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New year, new taxes in Pa.
Opinion, Сolumns
ELIZABETH STELLE RealClearPennsylvania 
Jan 16, 2025
The new year is always a great opportunity to shed vices like smoking and binge eating. For state and local lawmakers, their guilty pleasure tends to ...
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Billions for virtually nothing
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 15, 2025
Biden surrogates insist that the massive spending bills which triggered the inflation that helped bring downDemocratsin November will pay large divide...
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Let’s talk about debt
Opinion, Сolumns
ADRIANA E. RAMIREZ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
Jan 15, 2025
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — According to the latest available numbers, 77% of Americans carry at least some debt, with the average American owing a little over...
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