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Democrats are making a crazy bet
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Jun 04, 2023
President Joe Biden’s fall at the end of the Air Force Academy graduation ceremony was a brief event. He tripped, got helped up, and walked off under ...
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Time to keep AI in check now
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 02, 2023
More than 1,000 scientists and tech executives recently issued a one-sentence warning about artificial intelligence that, if from a different source, ...
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Municipal help is a common good
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 02, 2023
Pennsylvania is one of four states that differentiate themselves from their 46 American brethren by use of a different word. Like Kentucky, Massachuse...
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The world’s most worthless currency
Opinion, Сolumns
SIMON HANKINSON 
Jun 02, 2023
”Monopoly money” is a term for useless paper notes. Inflation was so bad in 1930s Weimar Germany, it took literal wheelbarrows of cash to buy grocerie...
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Bud Light meltdown is good for America
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Jun 01, 2023
We should all be grateful to Anheuser-Busch. Some corporation had to show how “woke” marketing could cost an iconic American brand dearly in terms of ...
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Debt deal’s modest improvements
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 01, 2023
Something is usually better than nothing — and that’s certainly the case with the debt ceiling compromise. More than a handful of House Republicans ar...
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Create more truck parking
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 01, 2023
Anyone who drives interstate highways and the Pennsylvania Turnpike sees big trucks parked along the road, on highway exit ramp and rest area entrance...
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Don’t fall for any third-party baloney
Opinion, Сolumns
NICHOLAS GOLDBERG 
May 31, 2023
I received an email recently from a frustrated reader complaining that the 2024 presidential election was shaping up to be an unsatisfying do-over fea...
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Compensate Pa.’s student teachers
Opinion, Сolumns
May 31, 2023
Teachers leaving the profession and college students declining to enter it cite myriad reasons for the trend, so legislators can’t resolve the resulti...
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A start on immigration reform
Opinion, Сolumns
May 30, 2023
As the debt ceiling showdown moves toward the critical stages, a bipartisan House group has offered a path forward on another controversial issue: imm...
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Allow more flexible local taxes
Opinion, Сolumns
May 30, 2023
Two state House members who recently filed a bill to create more flexibility in local taxation cited the city of Lancaster to make their case, but the...
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Republicans are crowding the 2024 race
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS 
May 30, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — The race for the Republican presidential nomination, once a two-man battle between former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. R...
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The ant and the grasshopper
Opinion, Сolumns
ANDREW FIALA 
May 29, 2023
FRESNO, Calif. (TNS) — Elon Musk recently suggested it is “morally wrong” to work remotely. He said it wasn’t fair for “the laptop class” to work outs...
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Pass debt ceiling compromise
Opinion, Сolumns
May 29, 2023
Politics remains the art of compromise. Though not everyone likes to accept this, it’s a fact of governing when neither political party controls all t...
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