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Work to reform vote-by-mail
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 24, 2021
The future of mail-in voting continues to be debated in the Pennsylvania Legislature, where some Republicans already are proposing new restrictions or...
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Impeachment’s rigged jury
Opinion, Сolumns
MARTIN SCHRAM Tribune News Service 
Feb 15, 2021
As the U.S. Senate pressed through its final days of the second impeachment trial of America’s 45th president, Donald Trump, it is important that we r...
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Longtime Democrat’s warning
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 09, 2021
Marcy Kaptur is the longest-serving woman in the current Congress. She has also been in the U.S. House of Representatives longer than any woman has se...
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Biden opted for big over bipartisan
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Feb 09, 2021
When Joe Biden arrived in the White House, he promised a new dawn of unity and bipartisanship. But when he began to pursue a COVID relief bill, he met...
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What does ‘unity’ mean?
Opinion, Сolumns
Jon Healey Los Angeles Times 
Feb 01, 2021
I’m going out on a limb here and saying that Republicans and Democrats have very different ideas of what “unity” means. The fact that President Joe Bi...
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Elk Co. Dems to meet
Bradford, Local News, News
Feb 01, 2021
ST. MARYS — The Elk County Democratic Committee will host its monthly meeting on Wednesday starting at 7:30 pm. Because of current COVID-19 concerns, ...
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Latest protests serve no purpose
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 22, 2021
Upon his swearing-in as the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden called for unity. Apparently, protesters in Denver, Portland and Seattle di...
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Americans, demand better
Opinion, Сolumns
CRAIG LANG, Tribune News Service 
Jan 14, 2021
Raise your hand if you are exhausted from the incessant political turmoil that continues to unfold in the United States. While almost everyone is hopi...
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A crazy impeachment
Opinion, Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Jan 13, 2021
Democrats started trying to remove President Donald Trump from office before he entered office. Now they are proposing to remove him from office after...
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So I got a few things wrong
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Jan 04, 2021
Every year at this time, I embark on my annual exercise in humility — a look back at what I wrote over the last 12 months with an eye to what I got wr...
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Energy a winning issue in Pa.
Opinion, Сolumns
KEITH NAUGHTON, The Patriot-Ne 
Dec 29, 2020
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Faced with the harsh reality of a tough general election Joe Biden and Kamala Harris each did something no political pundit expecte...
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The Dems’ Swalwell problem
Opinion, Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Dec 24, 2020
House Democratic leaders are trying to keep the espionage scandal surrounding Intelligence Committee member Rep. Eric Swalwell under tight control. Bu...
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‘Misinformation’ in 2020
Opinion, Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Dec 17, 2020
Looking at reporting and discussion of the 2020 presidential campaign, has any word been misused as often as “misinformation”? In much political debat...
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We don’t win with lockdowns
Opinion, Сolumns
CHARLIE GEROW, The Patriot-News 
Dec 08, 2020
HARRISBURG (TNS) — COVID- 19 is a serious disease. Every good person wants to see it defeated as quickly as possible and all wish that no other lives ...
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State election review nixed
Editorials
Marcie 
Dec 04, 2020
The 2020 presidential election in Pennsylvania, the first in which any voter could request a mail-in ballot, had more than its share of controversies ...
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