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Bills’ Kadish dies; updating free agency
Columns, Football, Local Sports, ...
CHUCK POLLOCK Special to The Era 
Mar 28, 2023
It seems more and more sports personalities from my youth are passing away, and they remind me of each of our mortalities, especially when it’s somebo...
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Pa. can be leader in natural gas production
Opinion, Сolumns
GREG MORELAND 
Mar 26, 2023
Nothing gets done without energy. From powering computers, credit card machines, or heavy manufacturing machinery to providing the electricity needed ...
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Would you trust the IRS?
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 26, 2023
When you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. That’s the gist of critics’ arguments against the creation of a government-run tax preparation ser...
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Memories of Iraq War
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN The Philadelphia Inquirer 
Mar 26, 2023
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Twenty years ago, when I first hired him in Baghdad, my Iraqi interpreter and driver Salam was thrilled that the Americans had to...
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The Iraq war 20 years later
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 24, 2023
During his infamous “mission accomplished” speech in May 2003 from the USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of San Diego, President George W. Bush announ...
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A second Trump administration would be bonkers
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Mar 24, 2023
If Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts about his supposedly impending arrest make it feel like our politics are about to reach another level of insanity...
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China not credible as peacemaker
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 23, 2023
Whatever else it produced, this week’s visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Moscow did not advance the cause of a just peace in Ukraine. If anythi...
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After judge is ridiculed on campus, time for action
Opinion, Сolumns
CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Mar 23, 2023
FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — Sen. Ted Cruz is known for having strong opinions, many of which are needlessly bombastic; some of which are best ignored. B...
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COVID sliced away freedom in the US
Opinion, Сolumns
SUSAN SHELLEY 
Mar 20, 2023
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — March must be a bad month for civil liberties. In addition to the third anniversary of the COVID-19 lockdowns, it’s the 20th anniv...
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Tighten oft-abused benefits law
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 20, 2023
A state senator wants to expand a law covering compensation for police and firefighters hurt in the line of duty, but his colleagues should go along o...
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Only Congress should make war
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 20, 2023
Nearly two decades after Congress approved the invasion of Iraq, the legislature is preparing to rescind that vote, as well as a prior war authorizati...
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Dragged into culture war
Opinion, Сolumns
LYNN SCHMIDT Tribune News Service 
Mar 17, 2023
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — For those of you who think the culture wars do not affect regular people, I am here to tell you they do. In the past I have written t...
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States reject fraud fight
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 16, 2023
Conspiracy theorists who claim falsely that the nation's electoral systems are awash in vote fraud often note that voter registration lists contain th...
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Never Bored
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors
WADE ROBERTSON 
Mar 16, 2023
I get a little peeved when I hear someone, especially the younger generation, say they’re bored. There are more things to do out there than you can im...
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Solving Pa.’s school staffing crisis
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH ASKEY 
Mar 15, 2023
What do Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the Republican governor of Arkansas, and Michelle Lujan Grisham, the Democratic governor of New Mexico, have in common...
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Let sun shine on government
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 15, 2023
It’s Sunshine Week across America, and not because daylight saving time ensures brighter evenings. The week is an annual observance of the crucial rol...
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Will Biden help propel Ukrainian victory?
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN The Philadelphia Inquirer 
Mar 14, 2023
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — As Russia’s war on Ukraine enters its second year, more and more Americans are asking when it will end. The morally correct respo...
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