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    Fettermania runs wild in Pa.
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Fettermania runs wild in Pa.
    By OLIVER BATEMAN RealClearPennsylvania 
    Jun 11, 2025
    Last week, Sen. John Fetterman’s chief of staff Krysta Sinclair Juris walked out the door, becoming the latest in a string of staff departures that wo...
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    Trump-Musk breakup: Unserious governance isn’t funny
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Trump-Musk breakup: Unserious governance isn’t funny
    By BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    Jun 11, 2025
    PITTSBURGH (TNS) — In one of the most perceptive gags in one of the best television comedies of all time, "Arrested Development," the effete therapist...
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    Improper payments waste billions
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Improper payments waste billions
    Jun 10, 2025
    The Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Defense and Office of Personnel Management violated the Payment Integrity Information Act by publis...
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    James Madison’s appeal to reasonable discourse
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    James Madison’s appeal to reasonable discourse
    By SUSAN BRYNNE LONG RealClearPolitics 
    Jun 10, 2025
    On June 8, 1789, James Madison rose before Congress and performed an about-face. The founder who had opposed the addition of a bill of rights to the C...
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    New era of safer Pa. roads
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    New era of safer Pa. roads
    By SEN. ROSEMARY BROWN The Center Square 
    Jun 10, 2025
    Last week, a new era of safety began on Pennsylvania roads when Paul Miller’s Law officially took effect. Named in memory of Paul Miller Jr. — a young...
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    Other Voices: Slowly he turned our nation
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Other Voices: Slowly he turned our nation
    Jun 10, 2025
    In the vaudeville skit, “Slowly I Turned," a seeming calm figure hears a trigger word and is instantly overtaken by uncontrollable rage.  Step by step...
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    Magically disappearing leaves at HUD properties
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Magically disappearing leaves at HUD properties
    Jun 09, 2025
    The Department of Housing and Urban Development spent $714 million paying outside contractors to take care of houses and condominiums owned by the fed...
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    Left-wing extremism hides behind a mask of social justice
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Left-wing extremism hides behind a mask of social justice
    Jun 09, 2025
    KANSAS CITY, Mo. (TNS) — The antisemitic attacks in Boulder, Colorado, and Washington, D.C., alongside the recent white nationalist demonstration in K...
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    A town like Corry illustrates Pa.’s urban-rural divide
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    A town like Corry illustrates Pa.’s urban-rural divide
    By JEFFREY H. BLOODWORTH RealClearPennsylvania 
    Jun 09, 2025
    “The Democrats quit being the party of normal. They are the party of ‘we are smarter than you. We are better than you.’ What kind of party runs on a ‘...
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    The GOP’s fiscal hawk era is officially over
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    The GOP’s fiscal hawk era is officially over
    By DAVID DRUCKER Bloomberg Opinion 
    Jun 06, 2025
    NEW YORK (TNS) — There is no constituency for debt reduction, which is a fancy way of saying voters don’t care that the federal balance sheet is rough...
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    Trump v. Musk was bound to happen
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Trump v. Musk was bound to happen
    Jun 06, 2025
    It seems it was bound to happen. The White House is nowhere big enough to accommodate the egos of President Trump and Elon Musk. Their fallout happene...
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    Push Putin to the peace table
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Push Putin to the peace table
    Jun 05, 2025
    President Donald Trump spoke to Russia’s Vladimir Putin for more than an hour on Wednesday about Ukraine. But results remain elusive. “It was a good c...
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    Public media is under attack — and so is your community
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Public media is under attack — and so is your community
    Jun 05, 2025
    Imagine turning on your TV or radio and finding silence where “Sesame Street,” local news, and emergency alerts used to be. No more “Our Town” stories...
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    Voting in Pennsylvania during the industrial era
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Voting in Pennsylvania during the industrial era
    By JOHN HINSHAW RealClearPennsylvania 
    Jun 05, 2025
    In a previous RealClearPA essay, I examined the first 200 years of voting in Pennsylvania and the alternating efforts to democratize the electorate an...
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    Hamas again holds up peace talks
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Hamas again holds up peace talks
    Jun 04, 2025
    The latest cease-fire proposal that seeks to stop the fighting between Israel and Hamas is in jeopardy. The reason shouldn’t be a surprise: The terror...
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    CDC says guns are the No. 1 killer of children. Except they’re not
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    CDC says guns are the No. 1 killer of children. Except they’re not
    Jun 04, 2025
    WASHINGTON (TNS) — With Robert F. Kennedy’s Make Children Healthy Again report under attack for questionable science, imaginary research and other “fo...
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    More questions than answers in recent Pa. primary
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    More questions than answers in recent Pa. primary
    Jun 04, 2025
    Even in an off-year primary, Pennsylvania continues to garner the attention of politicians and analysts hoping to understand the state’s political puz...
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    Another antisemitic terror attack
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Another antisemitic terror attack
    Jun 03, 2025
    Once again, this time in Boulder, Colorado, a terrorist self-draped in the Palestinian cause has taken to violence. Whatever one believes, violence fo...
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    ‘Organs-on-a-chip’ is one of many alternatives to animal testing
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    ‘Organs-on-a-chip’ is one of many alternatives to animal testing
    Jun 03, 2025
    NEW YORK (TNS) — There’s one area of surprising agreement in the often adversarial relationship between conservatives and the scientific community: th...
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    Pennsylvania’s political word of the year: retention
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Pennsylvania’s political word of the year: retention
    Jun 03, 2025
    Pennsylvania is one of a handful of states that elect all their judges in partisan races. New Jersey, for example, appoints all its judges: local, cou...
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    Minor Softball All-Stars
    Local Sports
    Minor Softball All-Stars
    Jo Wankel 
    June 20, 2025
    Photo provided The Bradford Regional Little League Minor Softball All-Stars are, from left, Ryla Holzwarth, MacKenzie Wells, Rilynn Priest, Jillian Cl...
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    Students complete Port Allegany Geocache Trail
    Local News
    Students complete Port Allegany Geocache Trail
    June 20, 2025
    PORT ALLEGANY — The Port Allegany Rotary Club, in collaboration with Seneca Highlands Career and Technical Center (SHCTC), announced the completion of...
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    Summer intern strengthens Penn State Extension programs
    Business, Local News
    Summer intern strengthens Penn State Extension programs
    June 20, 2025
    SMETHPORT — Penn State Extension of McKean County welcomed Zebulin Raught as its summer agriculture intern. A lifelong resident of McKean County, Raug...
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    Scouts close season
    Local News
    Scouts close season
    June 20, 2025
    Troop 413 of Duke Center and Troop 512 from Eldred closed their 2024-25 Scouting season with a flag ceremony and Court of Honor at which Scouts were r...
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    BAHS Alumni Assoc. announces scholarship winners
    Local News
    BAHS Alumni Assoc. announces scholarship winners
    June 20, 2025
    Bradford Area High School Alumni Association awarded its annual $1,000 scholarships to four 2025 BAHS graduates, Felicity Cramer, Alise Newman, Alyssa...
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    Pompa named Lion of the Year
    Local News
    Pompa named Lion of the Year
    June 20, 2025
    Bradford Area Lions Club installed its 2025-26 officers Tuesday and recognized Lion Rocco Pompa as Lion of the Year. “Rocco is an excellent Lion who s...
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