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Can Amtrak handle growth?
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 12, 2022
Thanks to billions of dollars in new federal cash soon to be flowing from last year’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), it seems halcyon ...
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Pa. court blocks governor’s carbon emissions plan
Opinion, Сolumns
MARC LEVY and MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press 
Apr 06, 2022
HARRISBURG — A Pennsylvania court has blocked the centerpiece of Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to fight climate change, the latest challenge to the Democrat’s ...
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SCOTUS needs ethics rules
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 04, 2022
Long before Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, Ginni, was revealed to be an enthusiastic cheerleader for insurrection, ethics problems dogge...
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Parents let the culture teach their kids values
Opinion, Сolumns
CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Apr 04, 2022
FORT WORTH, Texas — In 2020, I wrote about how my family, which at the time included three preschool-aged children, opted to skip the Super Bowl to av...
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Biden avoids tax solutions
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 01, 2022
Biden’s “billionaire minimum income tax” is really a wealth tax — and it’s a bad idea for tax policy in general. On Monday, Biden rolled out a propose...
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Leading the way on wages
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 01, 2022
When the wheels of government turn slowly, or not at all, the private sector must take the driver’s seat. That’s certainly the case with Pennsylvania’...
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Quit winging it and fly home, Putin
Opinion, Сolumns
MARTIN SCHRAM Tribune News Service 
Apr 01, 2022
In 2012, Vladimir Putin took his media corps out to an Arctic peninsula in Siberia to showcase his leadership prowess for all the world to see. Then h...
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Clarence Thomas is better than his critics
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Apr 01, 2022
Clarence Thomas is, by far, our most abused Supreme Court justice. His confirmation hearings in 1991 were, as he memorably put it, a high-tech lynchin...
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Tessena reflects on half-century with Owls
Columns, High School, Local Sports, ...
JEFF UVEINO juveino@bradfordera.com 
Mar 31, 2022
Fifty years have passed since Tom Tessena landed the Bradford boys track and field job, partially by coincidence. Tessena remembers well the fateful a...
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End wait for juvenile justice reform
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 22, 2022
Pennsylvania has made incremental but significant progress in juvenile justice reforms in more than a decade since the perverse “Kids for Cash” juveni...
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Putin exposed as pitiful
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 22, 2022
{p class=”krtHeadline”}We always knew that Vladimir Putin was evil. He ordered the murders of dissidents and journalists in Russia, and he caused coun...
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Other Voices: ‘Within the gate’
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 22, 2022
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable for he is...
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Still doing business in Russia
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 21, 2022
The military options for the U.S. and NATO in Ukraine are complicated. But the economic options aren’t: All global companies should pull out of Russia...
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Why not a Pa. gas tax holiday?
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 17, 2022
On Monday, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf joined his counterparts in Colorado, Michigan, New Mexico and Wisconsin in appealing to congressional leaders. M...
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Looking for more Marinas
Opinion, Сolumns
GENE LYONS 
Mar 17, 2022
I find myself awed and somewhat shamed by the moral authority and enormous courage of Marina Ovsyannikova, the woman who materialized on the set of Ru...
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