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Other Voices: Two sets of rules
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 25, 2024
Anyone who hears the news knows that there are two sets of rules in our justice system: one for the rich and one for the peasants. It looks like Elk C...
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US needs a 9/11 Commission for COVID
Opinion, Сolumns
F.D. FLAM Bloomberg Opinion 
Mar 25, 2024
NEW YORK (TNS) — During the third week of March 2020, with little public debate and less warning, Americans were told to stay in their homes indefinit...
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How much will abortion hurt Republicans in 2024?
Opinion, Сolumns
JACKIE CALMES Los Angeles Times 
Mar 24, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — To the dismay of Republicans, and the advantage of Democrats, abortion rights remain a high-priority issue for voters nearly two ye...
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Give me an engaged electorate
Opinion, Сolumns
JOHN A. RAGOSTA 
Mar 24, 2024
On March 23rd in 1775, Patrick Henry rose at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia, to urge his countrymen to arm themselves for the Revolutionary W...
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Case closed on school closures
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 24, 2024
You won’t solve America’s education problems by listening to the same special interest group that got it so wrong during the coronavirus pandemic. On ...
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The crossed paths of Irish and Black American heritage
Daily Headlines, Opinion, Сolumns
ARTHUR G. AUSTIN JR. Special to The Era 
Mar 23, 2024
Irish American Heritage Month follows African American History Month on the American history calendar. African American history celebrated in February...
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Cap cyber charter school funds
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 22, 2024
Pennsylvania’s system for funding cyber charter schools sucks money out of public schools and deposits it in vast reserves for private online academie...
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The absurd four-day workweek
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Mar 22, 2024
Karl Marx would be proud. Bernie Sanders has proposed taking another step toward the philosopher’s envisioned utopia by proposing to mandate a four-da...
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Ready for third-party candidates?
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 21, 2024
Barack Obama and Donald Trump have starkly different political beliefs, but they are similar in one fact — they both rose to popularity and ultimately...
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Bipartisanship on infrastructure
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 21, 2024
As the days get longer and the weather warms, our thoughts turn to spring pastimes like gardening, baseball and waiting in traffic as roadwork season ...
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Pet antics can prove exhausting
Opinion, Сolumns
DEB WUETHRICH 
Mar 21, 2024
What was I thinking? When I brought not one but two cats home from the SPCA, it stemmed from a notion they would entertain and keep each other company...
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Behind the times in W.Pa.
Opinion, Сolumns
BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
Mar 20, 2024
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania as a whole have always behind the times. It’s one of the things I love about my hometown. Fashi...
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Joe Biden’s ‘lawfare’ joke
Opinion, Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Mar 20, 2024
Why do so many Democrats and their allies in the media desperately want former President Donald Trump to stand trial before Election Day? The answer i...
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Trump’s big plans for California
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Los Angeles Times 
Mar 19, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Donald Trump is running against California — again. In his campaign to win a second term, the former president frequently excoriate...
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A truth of immigration
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 18, 2024
The U.S. immigration system is broken. Voices on all sides of this debate can agree on that, if not where to cast the blame. But our need for economic...
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