Opinion

School staff traveled the globe
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Nov 25, 2025
Chicago Public School employees spent an “exorbitant” $14.6 million on travel in 2023 and 2024, including to vacation spots like Disney World and Las ...
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Other Voices: Finding customer service
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Nov 25, 2025
In Marcie Schellhammer’s column in the Nov. 15-16 edition of The Era, regarding poor customer service, she posed the question, “Is customer service a ...
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Contract cash flowed to Noem allies
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Nov 25, 2025
The Department of Homeland Security paid a company — filled with Secretary Kristi Noem’s friends and allies — to create at least one of several politi...
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Good service gets our attention these days
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By DEB WUETHRICH 
Nov 25, 2025
I heard the report in early November. On a business channel, Target stores announced a new internal training program for the coming holidays called “1...
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Gratitude makes good citizens and heals divisions
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By REBECCA PRIMIS The Altlanta Journal-Constitution 
Nov 24, 2025
ATLANTA (TNS) — President Abraham Lincoln officially made Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863, during the Civil War that threatened the very exist...
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Eyes on the Pa. Supreme Court
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By MEGAN MARTIN RealClearPennsylvania 
Nov 24, 2025
HARRISBURG — Integrity is doing the right thing — even if nobody is watching. However, after this month's election, it’s clear that Pennsylvanians are...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene or Trump: Who gets MAGA in the divorce?
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By PATRICIA MURPHY The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 
Nov 21, 2025
ATLANTA (TNS) — When President Donald Trump was booked and fingerprinted at the Fulton County Jail in 2023, there was just one elected official there ...
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The highs, lows of the new Pennsylvania budget
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By ANDREW LEWIS Real Clear Pennsylvania 
Nov 21, 2025
After a four-month impasse, Pennsylvania lawmakers finally delivered the 2025-26 state budget. The newly minted spending plan offers some meaningful p...
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The sorry Epstein saga moves forward
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Nov 20, 2025
With pressure mounting, the House and the Senate this week passed legislation mandating the release of a slew of government documents involving financ...
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Pa.’s 2026 legislative battle begins to take shape
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By FORD TURNER  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
Nov 20, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Whether to attempt the big leap from private life to state representative has become a pressing question for aspiring lawmakers, as...
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Winning the rural vote in Pa.
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By MATT ZUPON RealClearPennsylvania 
Nov 20, 2025
Ronald Reagan once joked, “A Republican candidate was out giving a speech to a group of farmers. He was standing on the bed of a manure spreader, and ...
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The staying power of John Fetterman
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By OLIVER BATEMAN RealClearPennsylvania 
Nov 19, 2025
Editor's note: This is the third and final installment of Oliver Bateman's lengthy op-ed on Pennsylvania's Sen. John Fetterman, a Democrat who is ofte...
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Mamdani allies get public funding
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Nov 18, 2025
A nonprofit previously led by antisemitic activist Linda Sarsour received over $4.1 million of public funding from 2017 to 2024, according to public r...
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Shutdown just latest battle in Democrats’ long war
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By J. PEDER ZANE RealClearPolitics 
Nov 18, 2025
The Democrats never miss a beat. The moment their effort to blame Trump for the government shutdown went poof, they resurrected Jeffrey Epstein to sug...
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Fetterman’s memoir tries to beef up case for Fettermania
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By OLIVER BATEMAN RealClearPennsylvania 
Nov 18, 2025
PITTSBURGH — Hulking Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. John Fetterman’s memoir is equal parts confession, campaign text, and brand maintenance. It beefs up the p...
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Be leery of AI in the classroom
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Nov 17, 2025
America's schools need to develop intelligence in the classroom. It’s just not likely to come from AI. The artificial intelligence revolution is here,...
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