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    Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania challenge state, federal actions to boost voter registration
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    Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania challenge state, federal actions to boost voter registration
    MARC LEVY Associated Press 
    Jan 27, 2024
    HARRISBURG (AP) — A group of conservative state lawmakers in Pennsylvania filed a federal lawsuit Thursday challenging three voting-related executive ...
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    Have an idea or a project for reducing climate pollution? The government wants to know about it
    Nation & World, News
    Have an idea or a project for reducing climate pollution? The government wants to know about it
    ANYA LITVAK Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    Jan 26, 2024
    (TNS) — In different rooms with different voices, peoples across Pennsylvania have been imagining what it would take to decarbonize their economies. S...
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    Keeping kids fed over summer
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Keeping kids fed over summer
    Jan 25, 2024
    Summer seems like a long, long way away. But it will be here before you know it. Memorial Day is just four months away. The first Pirates game is just...
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    RTS: Trip, part 3 of 5
    News, Round the Square
    RTS: Trip, part 3 of 5
    Jan 25, 2024
    TRIP, PART 3: Here’s the next part of the stories about the 1924 trip of Bradford High students to Washington, D.C. “Leaving the commission building, ...
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    Dush, Thompson announce Cameron County satellite office hours
    Local News, News
    Dush, Thompson announce Cameron County satellite office hours
    Jan 24, 2024
    SMETHPORT — Sen. Cris Dush (R-Brookville) and Congressman Glenn “GT” Thompson (R-PA) announced their upcoming Cameron County area satellite office hou...
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    Officially boost Washington’s Trail – 1753
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Officially boost Washington’s Trail – 1753
    Jan 24, 2024
    In October 1753, 21-year-old George Washington set off from Williamsburg, Va., on a mission to deliver an ultimatum to the French at Fort Le Boeuf in ...
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    RTS: Trip, part 1 of 5
    News, Round the Square
    RTS: Trip, part 1 of 5
    Jan 23, 2024
    TRIP: In April of 1924, students from Bradford High School traveled to the nation’s capital on a field trip, sending word to The Era with details of t...
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    What happened to the Western Pennsylvanians arrested after Jan. 6?
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    What happened to the Western Pennsylvanians arrested after Jan. 6?
    MEGAN GUZA Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    Jan 13, 2024
    (TNS) — Close to two dozen people from Western Pennsylvania were among the hundreds charged in connection with the riots at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6...
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    Officials press Congress for WIC funding with 50,000 Pennsylvanians’ benefits on the line
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    Officials press Congress for WIC funding with 50,000 Pennsylvanians’ benefits on the line
    BENJAMIN KAIL Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    Jan 12, 2024
    WASHINGTON (TNS) — Pennsylvania Democrats and the Biden administration are pressing congressional leaders to fully fund the federal nutrition assistan...
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    Shapiro touts agriculture during Farm Show visit as key to Pa. future
    Local News, News, PA State News
    Shapiro touts agriculture during Farm Show visit as key to Pa. future
    JAN MURPHY pennlive.com 
    Jan 11, 2024
    (TNS) — Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration plans to roll out an economic development strategy in the coming weeks that is betting agriculture can aid ...
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    Pennsylvania enlisting in summer food program
    Local News, News, PA State News
    Pennsylvania enlisting in summer food program
    Jan 11, 2024
    HARRISBURG – The state departments of Human Services and Education announced Pennsylvania will participate in Summer EBT, a new federal program that g...
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    No recipe for long-term prosperity
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    No recipe for long-term prosperity
    Jan 11, 2024
    It’s an election year, so every economic report is going to be filtered through the lens of political benefit. President Biden thus celebrated the lat...
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    The AWOL defense secretary
    Opinion, Сolumns
    The AWOL defense secretary
    RICH LOWRY 
    Jan 10, 2024
    Anyone following how weak and passive the U.S. has been in the face of provocations from our adversaries in the Middle East might conclude that the se...
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    DIFFERENCE MAKERS: ‘Bradford boy’ first director of U.S. Reclamation Service
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    DIFFERENCE MAKERS: ‘Bradford boy’ first director of U.S. Reclamation Service
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Jan 10, 2024
    His papers are in the Library of Congress. He was involved in the U.S. Reclamation Service, U.S. Geological Survey, National Geographic Society and th...
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    Fetterman says efforts to keep Trump off state ballots are ‘incredibly unhelpful’
    Nation & World, News
    Fetterman says efforts to keep Trump off state ballots are ‘incredibly unhelpful’
    J.D. PROSE pennlive.com 
    Jan 10, 2024
    (TNS) — U.S. Sen. John Fetterman is no fan of former President Donald Trump, but he does not appreciate the efforts to keep leading Republican preside...
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    No strings on $189B in pandemic aid
    Opinion, Сolumns
    No strings on $189B in pandemic aid
    Jan 05, 2024
    Of the $325 billion given to states and local governments to help cover costs stemming from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, less than half of th...
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    State funding for libraries remains stable
    Daily Headlines, Local News
    State funding for libraries remains stable
    MANDY COLOSIMO m.colosimo@bradfordera.com 
    Jan 05, 2024
    Last week, First Lady Lori Shapiro joined Secretary of Education Dr. Khalid N. Mumin and Deputy Secretary for the Office of Commonwealth Libraries Sus...
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    Updated FAFSA drops with complications and confusion
    Nation & World, News
    Updated FAFSA drops with complications and confusion
    MADDIE AIKEN Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    Jan 04, 2024
    (TNS) — After months of delays, the updated Free Application for Federal Student Aid has finally launched — but not without issues and confusion. Drov...
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    Lawsuit seeks to remove Pa. Rep. Scott Perry from 2024 ballot
    News, PA State News
    Lawsuit seeks to remove Pa. Rep. Scott Perry from 2024 ballot
    Jan 03, 2024
    (TNS) — An activist has filed a petition to knock Scott Perry off the Pennsylvania primary election ballot for his role in trying to decertify the 202...
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    Pennsylvania’s electric vehicle marathon in review
    News, PA State News
    Pennsylvania’s electric vehicle marathon in review
    LAUREN JESSOP The Center Square 
    Dec 29, 2023
    Over the last year, Pennsylvania set out in earnest to meet federal goals for the electric vehicle transition. It’s been an expensive and complex proc...
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    Isolated Torrey pine populations yield insights into genetic diversity
    Nation & World, PA State News
    Isolated Torrey pine populations yield insights into genetic diversity
    June 15, 2025
    UNIVERSITY PARK — Entire regions of trees are disappearing because of invasive pests, disease and a changing climate. The key to their ability to adap...
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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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