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Why 2024 may not be the worst political year ever
Opinion, Сolumns
JACKIE CALMES Los Angeles Times 
Jan 26, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — The 2028 presidential campaign can’t come soon enough. Just think: Fresh faces, furrowed by fewer lines. Fresh ideas, not of the au...
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Kamala Harris set to intervene more in our lives
Opinion, Сolumns
JAY AMBROSE Tribune News Service 
Jan 26, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — It’s a risk, a mighty, mighty risk, for President Joe Biden to go out on the campaign trail as if he didn’t mind making a clown of ...
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The rematch many don’t want
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 25, 2024
Polls reveal that a majority of American voters aren’t happy about a potential rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential ele...
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Cracking down on looters and thieves in Pa.
Opinion, Сolumns
DAVE ARGALL RealClearPennsylvania 
Jan 25, 2024
HARRISBURG — Retailers across the nation are under siege, with some struggling to stay afloat amid a rising tide of crime. Many of us take for granted...
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Joe Biden’s gift just keeps on giving
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Jan 25, 2024
There’s a lively internal debate in the GOP about the politics of a potential immigration deal with Joe Biden. Should Republicans, as Donald Trump is ...
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Keeping kids fed over summer
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 25, 2024
Summer seems like a long, long way away. But it will be here before you know it. Memorial Day is just four months away. The first Pirates game is just...
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Readers make things happen
Opinion, Сolumns
MANDY COLOSIMO m.colosimo@bradfordera.com 
Jan 25, 2024
I am not one who easily takes compliments or even a thank you. Recently, however, I have received a couple of emails from people thanking me for getti...
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Victory, yes, but some warning signs for Trump
Opinion, Сolumns
CARL P. LEUBSDORF The Dallas Morning News 
Jan 24, 2024
WASHINGTON. (TNS) — With his solid New Hampshire victory, Donald Trump has the Republican nomination within his grasp. But the results showed he faces...
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The empty seats in classrooms
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 24, 2024
Education leaders spent the pandemic telling students that showing up to school wasn’t necessary. Unfortunately, many of them took the lesson to heart...
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Shapiro’s duck-and-dodge first year
Opinion, Сolumns
MATTHEW BROUILLETTE RealClearPolitics 
Jan 22, 2024
In the 2004 sports comedy, “Dodgeball,” we learned the five Ds of that sport: “Dodge, duck, dip, dive, and … dodge.” In his first year in office, Penn...
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Other Voices: Trump marches on
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 22, 2024
How did our society get to this “evilness”? We the people are being kicked to the curb every day. How could we let this happen? Now that we are divide...
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Adequately fund indigent defense
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 22, 2024
A report issued this week by the Wren Collective is direct in its title: “Under-resourced And Ignored: Indigent Defense in Schuylkill County.” The 20-...
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John Fetterman has cracked the code
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Jan 22, 2024
John Fetterman, as someone put it, is doing a Bulworth in reverse. Bulworth was a fictional California senator in the 1990s movie of the same name who...
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Dry January allows us to reboot our lives
Opinion, Сolumns
NICKOLAUS HAYES Chicago Tribune 
Jan 21, 2024
CHICAGO (TNS) — Dry January is an exercise of abstaining from alcohol for the entirety of the first month of the year. For many, drinking alcohol duri...
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Thank Shapiro on this one
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 19, 2024
The Pennsylvania Republican Party may have to eat some crow — and thank Gov. Josh Shapiro for an electoral boost. It’s been roughly four months since ...
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If Israel is accused of genocide, why not Russia?
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN The Philadelphia Inquirer 
Jan 19, 2024
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — If Israel is being charged with genocide at the International Court of Justice, why isn’t Russia? This is a question I find very ...
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