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    Turning Pa.’s poor rankings into a winning GOP agenda
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Turning Pa.’s poor rankings into a winning GOP agenda
    ATHAN KOUTSIOUROUMBAS RealClearPennsylvania 
    May 15, 2025
    Pennsylvania’s latest national rankings are not just embarrassing — they’re a policy indictment. But for Republicans, they also offer something else: ...
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    Report: Visitors spending millions in McKean County; nearly $184 million, according to state office
    Business, Headlines, Local News, ...
    Report: Visitors spending millions in McKean County; nearly $184 million, according to state office
    May 08, 2025
    The Allegheny National Forest Visitors Bureau (ANFVB) announced this week that, according to the 2023 report from the Pennsylvania Office of Tourism, ...
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    Report: The U.S. states most exposed to Chinese import tariffs
    Report: The U.S. states most exposed to Chinese import tariffs
    BETHANY BLANKLEY The Center Square 
    May 07, 2025
    WASHINGTON Ahead of U.S. trade talks being held with Chinese officials this weekend, a new report highlights the U.S. states that are the most and lea...
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    Canada aggressively attacks US trade, farmers and workers
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Canada aggressively attacks US trade, farmers and workers
    KENIN M. SPIVAK RealClearPolitics 
    Apr 28, 2025
    Canada has one of the most protectionist economies among developed nations. It particularly targets American farmers, media, and manufacturers. That m...
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    DOGE alone isn’t enough
    Opinion, Сolumns
    DOGE alone isn’t enough
    Apr 24, 2025
    Elon Musk is reportedly planning to spend less time tending to the budget-cutting DOGE project and more time on his businesses, according to Politico,...
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    Other Voices: Trump’s economic chaos
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Other Voices: Trump’s economic chaos
    Apr 22, 2025
    In a recent edition of The Bradford Era, Congressman Glenn Thompson stated that President Donald Trump's first months have been "very effective." Is e...
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    End of the world as we know it, but was it all good?
    Opinion, Сolumns
    End of the world as we know it, but was it all good?
    BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    Apr 21, 2025
    PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Earlier this month, sharp declines in the stock market wiped out $5 trillion in value. Which raises the question: If $5 trillion ca...
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    Extending Trump tax cuts critical for Main Street
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Extending Trump tax cuts critical for Main Street
    PRESTON BRASHERS 
    Apr 17, 2025
    WASHINGTON (TNS) — Congress has a decision to make. Hang American small business owners out to dry, or lock in a tax system that allows America’s entr...
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    Striving for ‘Made in America’
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Striving for ‘Made in America’
    JIM SPENCER 
    Apr 16, 2025
    As the newly appointed regional administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Mid-Atlantic Region, I am excited about the future of Ameri...
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    Local gas prices rise comparatively little
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    Local gas prices rise comparatively little
    Sara Furlong s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
    Apr 08, 2025
    The cost of oil is at its lowest since the early days of the covid pandemic in 2021. Local oil purchasers American Refining Group Inc. and Ergon last ...
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    Reindustrializing is a worthy goal, but it’ll take more than tariffs
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Reindustrializing is a worthy goal, but it’ll take more than tariffs
    Apr 08, 2025
    President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs are the biggest shock to the global financial and economic order since the end of the Bretton Woods ...
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    Trump’s agenda is threatened
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Trump’s agenda is threatened
    Apr 04, 2025
    Not yet three months into a second term, President Donald Trump has taken difficult, but necessary, actions to rein in the scope of a federal governme...
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    More than $1B for foreign shrimp
    Opinion, Сolumns
    More than $1B for foreign shrimp
    Apr 02, 2025
    The U.S. contributed to over $1 billion spent promoting shrimp farming in foreign countries from 1998 to 2023, which members of Congress say may have ...
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    Other Voices: Tariff déjà vu
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Other Voices: Tariff déjà vu
    Apr 01, 2025
    Tariffs played a significant role in worsening the Great Depression, though they were not the sole cause. One of the most infamous tariff policies of ...
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    Other Voices: Keep food banks stocked
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Other Voices: Keep food banks stocked
    Apr 01, 2025
    Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Pennsylvania works hard to support families, seniors, veterans and children facing hunger every day. Going to an...
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    Wall Street tumbles, and S&P 500 drops 2% on worries about slower economy and higher inflation
    Wall Street tumbles, and S&P 500 drops 2% on worries about slower economy and higher inflation
    STAN CHOE Associated Press 
    Mar 28, 2025
    NEW YORK (AP) — Another wipeout walloped Wall Street Friday. Worries are building about a potentially toxic mix of worsening inflation and a U.S. econ...
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    Gas prices a mixed bag
    Headlines, Local News, News, ...
    Gas prices a mixed bag
    Sara Furlong s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
    Mar 24, 2025
    Gas prices did a little bit of everything this week, from rising nationally and across Pennsylvania, to falling regionally and hardly moving at all lo...
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    Local gas prices barely budge
    Headlines, Local News, News, ...
    Local gas prices barely budge
    Sara Furlong s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
    Mar 18, 2025
    Bradford’s average for a gallon of gasoline fell just 10% of the decrease seen regionally and just 7% of the decrease recorded across the state, and r...
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    Are energy blackouts coming in Pennsylvania
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Are energy blackouts coming in Pennsylvania
    ATHAN KOUTSIOUROUMBAS RealClearPennsylvania 
    Mar 13, 2025
    Pennsylvania faces an unsettling prospect: California-style blackouts looming on the horizon. This is a troubling shift for a state that proudly stand...
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    Trump doubles planned tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum to 50% as trade war intensifies
    Business, Nation & World, News, ...
    Trump doubles planned tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum to 50% as trade war intensifies
    JOSH BOAK, ROB GILLIES and MICHELLE PRICE Associated Press 
    Mar 11, 2025
    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will double his planned tariffs on steel and aluminum from 25% to 50% for Canada, escala...
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    Pa. charter school CEOs earn more money than superintendents and oversee fewer students
    PA State News
    Pa. charter school CEOs earn more money than superintendents and oversee fewer students
    By OLIVER MORRISON  pennlive.com 
    June 15, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — Brad Hatch grew up near Altoona and started his career as a teacher in the local school district, working his way up to assistant p...
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    Pa. is supposed to ‘immediately’ suspend teachers charged with serious crimes. That doesn’t always happen.
    PA State News
    Pa. is supposed to ‘immediately’ suspend teachers charged with serious crimes. That doesn’t always happen.
    June 14, 2025
    PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...
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    No Kings rally in Veterans Square
    Local News, Nation & World
    No Kings rally in Veterans Square
    By SAVANNAH BARR s.barr@bradfordera.com 
    June 14, 2025
    Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
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    Advocates, lawmakers push to limit solitary confinement in Pa. prisons
    Advocates, lawmakers push to limit solitary confinement in Pa. prisons
    June 14, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...
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    Varischetti Game to Showcase Local Players June 27
    Local Sports
    Varischetti Game to Showcase Local Players June 27
    Jo Wankel 
    June 14, 2025
    BROCKWAY - The 10th Annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football game is slated for the end of the month, and several area players were recognized for t...
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    State tourism officials: In 2026, Pa. will be the ‘epicenter of the sports world’
    Local Sports, Sports
    State tourism officials: In 2026, Pa. will be the ‘epicenter of the sports world’
    Jo Wankel 
    June 14, 2025
    (TNS) —As golfers teed off during opening day of this year's 125th U.S. Open Championship, state officials inside of a tent overlooking the course's 1...
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