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    Don’t gamble with kids? Pa. should heed its own advice.
    Editorials
    Don’t gamble with kids? Pa. should heed its own advice.
    Marcie 
    Nov 28, 2022
    The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has a silly solution for a serious problem. Scores of customers at local casinos continue to leave kids locked i...
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    Biden rightly targets hunger
    Editorials
    Biden rightly targets hunger
    Marcie 
    Oct 03, 2022
    Hunger should be rare in the United States, which has the capacity to feed not just itself but most of the world. Economics, logistics, culture, polit...
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    Closing the electoral loopholes
    Editorials
    Closing the electoral loopholes
    Marcie 
    Aug 01, 2022
    The House select committee hearings into the Capitol insurrection have established two facts virtually beyond debate: One, former President Donald Tru...
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    Some Pa. GOP leaders wisely break with one of their own
    Editorials
    Some Pa. GOP leaders wisely break with one of their own
    Marcie 
    Jul 18, 2022
    Pennsylvania Republican officials who endorsed Democratic nominee Josh Shapiro for governor deserve praise for putting duty, honor, and country before...
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    We can’t surrender in war on drugs
    Editorials
    We can’t surrender in war on drugs
    Marcie 
    Jul 18, 2022
    The war on drugs has been long, hard-fought and expensive. Since the 1970s, America has battled wave after wave of new, more lethal drugs hitting our ...
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    Prescribed fires may save Yosemite’s sequoias
    Editorials
    Prescribed fires may save Yosemite’s sequoias
    Marcie 
    Jul 13, 2022
    The initial news accounts sounded so similar to past years that they were almost repetitive: A wildfire had broken out in a national park and was burn...
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    Protesting for Roe at justices’ homes is self-defeating and wrong
    Editorials, Opinion
    Protesting for Roe at justices’ homes is self-defeating and wrong
    May 16, 2022
    The apparently pending Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade is an affront to women’s rights to biological self-determination and to all Ameri...
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    State retirement plan would save taxpayers by helping workers save
    Editorials, Opinion
    State retirement plan would save taxpayers by helping workers save
    May 16, 2022
    About two million private sector workers in Pennsylvania — more than 40% of the workforce — don’t have access to an automatic retirement savings plan ...
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    Alito’s draft ruling self-contradictory
    Editorials
    Alito’s draft ruling self-contradictory
    Marcie 
    May 07, 2022
    The Supreme Court draft ruling overturning Roe v. Wade raises just as many arguments and counterarguments as the original ruling that Justice Samuel A...
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    Tech helps to identify war criminals
    Editorials, Opinion
    Tech helps to identify war criminals
    May 07, 2022
    Much of the world reacted in horror at Russian atrocities in the town of Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, one month ago. After the Russian army retreated, Ukr...
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    US Supreme Court says hyperpartisan redistricting can be derailed
    Editorials
    US Supreme Court says hyperpartisan redistricting can be derailed
    Marcie 
    Mar 14, 2022
    The Supreme Court justices down in Washington just sent a clear message to a Supreme Court justice up in Steuben County: In assessing partisan redistr...
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    Pa.’s college problems not solved by Commonwealth University
    Editorials, Opinion
    Pa.’s college problems not solved by Commonwealth University
    Mar 14, 2022
    Once upon a time in Pennsylvania, every town of a certain size or importance seemed to have its own college. There were reasons for this. Many of thes...
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    Cutting off Russian gas is the right call
    Editorials
    Cutting off Russian gas is the right call
    Marcie 
    Mar 12, 2022
    Gas prices “are going to go up” and we “can’t do much” about it. Those are words that no American president wants to say, but that’s exactly what Pres...
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    The new reading instruction emergency
    Editorials
    The new reading instruction emergency
    Marcie 
    Mar 12, 2022
    Three consecutive chopped-up school years have had the expected effect on student learning. New research shows that growing numbers of kids are fallin...
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    Condemn Putin’s evil, but remember Russia wants freedom
    Editorials
    Condemn Putin’s evil, but remember Russia wants freedom
    Marcie 
    Mar 11, 2022
    Many of us in America feel a need now to somehow confront the Russian government and its strongman leader Vladimir Putin over the unjust and illegal i...
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    Schools don’t need to close to contain COVID
    Editorials
    Schools don’t need to close to contain COVID
    Marcie 
    Dec 24, 2021
    As the seemingly (but not-for-certain) less severe omicron variant elbows out delta and political leaders across America try to stave off fresh hospit...
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    Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
    Editorials
    Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
    Marcie 
    Dec 24, 2021
    Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus The following Christmas classic, written by Francis P. Church, was first published in 1897 by The New York Sun. ...
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    Labor shortage impacts safety on the road and crossing it
    Editorials
    Labor shortage impacts safety on the road and crossing it
    Marcie 
    Dec 10, 2021
    There has been a lot of talk about how the labor shortage — in Pennsylvania and around the country — is hitting different industries hard. It’s changi...
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    Dole put ideals ahead of ideology
    Editorials
    Dole put ideals ahead of ideology
    Marcie 
    Dec 10, 2021
    Bob Dole was among the best of a generation of Americans who believed this country had both the ability and obligation to do great things at home and ...
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    Would Pittsburgh’s traffic stop proposal change anything?
    Editorials
    Would Pittsburgh’s traffic stop proposal change anything?
    Marcie 
    Nov 12, 2021
    Flashing lights in the rearview mirror and the whine of a siren are almost never welcome. They are, at best, the beginning of an irritating delay and ...
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