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AI panel shows real thing
Opinion, Сolumns
May 18, 2023
The term “artificial intelligence” often can be applied to members of congressional committees who use hearings to showboat rather than advance the pu...
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Musk fails free speech over Turkey
Opinion, Сolumns
May 17, 2023
What do you call someone who claims to support free speech, but continually makes exceptions based on one thing or another, changing with the wind? Yo...
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Open the Pa. primaries
Opinion, Сolumns
DAVID THORNBURGH 
May 17, 2023
One of us, John Opdycke, founded the national advocacy group Open Primaries in 2009. “Back then it was like opening an institute for UFO research. Peo...
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Will Americans tune out 2024?
Opinion, Сolumns
RICHARD DAVIES 
May 17, 2023
NEW YORK (TNS) — It’s really difficult to get excited about the next election — now less than 18 months away. The prospect of two old men facing each ...
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Protect right to know amendment
Opinion, Сolumns
May 16, 2023
Pennsylvania’s Open Records Law is a crucial and crucially flawed instrument to inform citizens and hold governments accountable. It’s a vast improvem...
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Durham report vindicates Trump
Opinion, Сolumns
JOE BATTENFELD Boston Herald 
May 16, 2023
BOSTON (TNS) — Special counsel John Durham’s report on the FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” Russia probe of Donald Trump vindicates the former president’s ...
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They really are banning gas stoves
Opinion, Сolumns
May 16, 2023
You aren’t crazy if they really are out to get your gas stove. Earlier this month, Democrats in New York passed a budget limiting the use of natural g...
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Eliminate Pa. taxes on cellphones
Opinion, Сolumns
May 15, 2023
Just as gasoline costs more at the pump in Pennsylvania than in most other states because of higher state taxes, Pennsylvanians face higher cellphone ...
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Open borders undermine interests of Americans
Opinion, Сolumns
SUSAN SHELLEY 
May 15, 2023
LOS ANGELES — It seems to me so obvious that the United States should not have open borders that the question answers itself. However, since a questio...
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Biden-Trump would be a contest of unpopularity
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS 
May 15, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Two television events in the last 10 days — a raucous Donald Trump rally billed as a CNN town hall and a far more sedate interview ...
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Expand Pa.’s Clean Slate law
Opinion, Сolumns
May 14, 2023
Pennsylvania’s 2018 Clean Slate law has helped over a million people get a fresh start by sealing their criminal records a decade after a low-level of...
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Ground airline arrogance
Opinion, Сolumns
May 14, 2023
Joe Biden used to commute by train. And because he is president and flies on Air Force One, it has been some time since he personally has experienced ...
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Other Voices: Our political divide
Opinion, Сolumns
May 12, 2023
The political divide that is so widely acknowledged and talked about is more and more manifesting itself in personal relationships. So wedded are the ...
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