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Dems and Drinks set for Thursday
Bradford, Local News, News
Sep 30, 2019
Four candidates for office in McKean County will be special guests at Dems and Drinks, a monthly get-together for Democrats, slated for 6:30-9 p.m. Th...
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House OKs budget bill after stiff criticism by Democrats
Local News, Online Features
Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
Jun 26, 2019
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives is advancing a just-unveiled $34 billion compromise budget plan after hard criticism by rank-and-...
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Should Mueller be exonerated?
Opinion, Сolumns
JAY AMBROSE Tribune News Service 
Jun 03, 2019
Robert Mueller is often called an honorable man but he isn’t. He once violated separation of powers and refused to back up. Bureaucrats under his comm...
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The idea of an aesthetic impeachment
Opinion, Сolumns
GEORGE F. WILL 
Jun 03, 2019
WASHINGTON — If congressional Democrats will temper their enthusiasm for impeachment with lucidity about the nation’s needs and their political self-i...
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Round the Square for May 21
Bradford, Local News, News, ...
May 21, 2019
PRICES: The cost of prescription drugs can be a big hit to the budget. We found an article in Consumer Report about a 2017 survey the agency conducted...
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Elk County Democrats to meet
Local News, News
Marcie 
Apr 20, 2019
ST. MARYS — The Elk County Democratic Committee will hold its regular monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Elks Lodge #437 located at 33 Lafa...
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Federal legislators pledge to do their part for solution
Local News, News, Online Features
Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
Jan 26, 2019
The nation has been granted a three-week reprieve, and the region’s federal legislators say they will work hard to make sure we aren’t back in the sam...
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Thompson: U.S. in ‘Great American Comeback’
Local News, News, Online Features
Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
Oct 26, 2018
The nation is in the midst of the “Great American Comeback,” U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson said during a visit to The Era on Thursday. Thompson, R-Pa., sai...
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Voter registration, absentee ballot requests up
Local News, News, Online Features
Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
Oct 18, 2018
If voter registration is any indication, voter apathy shouldn’t be a factor in the upcoming general election. On Wednesday, elections directors in McK...
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The hypocrisy of the Democratic Russia hawks
Local News, Nation & World, News, ...
MARC A. THIESSEN 
Jul 26, 2018
WASHINGTON — With his interference in the 2016 election, Russian President Vladimir Putin achieved something that none of his murderous Soviet predece...
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The Tawdry and Dumb Nazi Charge
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Jul 05, 2018
The Nazi analogy has long been recognized as the crudest and dumbest form of argument, but it is enjoying a renaissance. Former CIA Director Michael H...
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Thank Republicans for your Right to Try
Opinion, Сolumns
MARC A. THIESSEN 
May 31, 2018
WASHINGTON — Imagine the horror of learning you have a terminal illness for which science has not yet come up with a treatment. Now imagine receiving ...
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The Russia temptation
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
May 22, 2018
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the Democrat from Minnesota, uttered a forlorn sentiment at a Center for American Progress conference. She said Democrats can't sp...
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Low turnout at the polls in Bradford
Local News, News, Online Features
ALEX DAVIS Era Reporter a.davis@bradfordera.com 
May 16, 2018
Polling places around the Bradford area resembled ghost towns during Tuesday’s primary election. A visit to some of the precincts revealed very few in...
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Politically Uncorrected
Nation & World, News
G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young 
May 09, 2018
An Electoral Millennium The age of Trump will be remembered for many things. One of them will be the seemingly endless stream of political norms broke...
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