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    Home government finances

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    City of Bradford to explore home rule
    Headlines, Local News, News, ...
    City of Bradford to explore home rule
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Mar 14, 2025
    A surprise announcement Friday afternoon might eventually lead to a change in the way the City of Bradford is governed. At 6 p.m. Tuesday, Bradford Ci...
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    Social Security Matters: Can paying Medicare premium be avoided?
    Business, Local News, News
    Social Security Matters: Can paying Medicare premium be avoided?
    RUSSELL GLOOR 
    Mar 14, 2025
    DEAR RUSTY: Is there any way I can get out of paying the $185/month I am told will be taken out of my Social Security for Medicare Part B when I turn ...
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    Largest cities can’t pay their bills
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Largest cities can’t pay their bills
    Mar 13, 2025
    America’s 75 largest cities are collectively $300.7 billion in debt, according to the annual “ State of the Cities ” report from nonprofit fiscal tran...
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    Bipartisan support for cyber charter tuition reform at last? Maybe
    Local News, News, PA State News
    Bipartisan support for cyber charter tuition reform at last? Maybe
    CHRISTINA LENGYEL The Center Square 
    Mar 12, 2025
    HARRISBURG — Senate Majority Leader Joe Pittman, R-Indiana, signaled an appetite for additional cyber charter reforms this week. At least so it appear...
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    Final Tax/Rent Rebate assistance clinics conclude in Emporium
    Local News, News
    Final Tax/Rent Rebate assistance clinics conclude in Emporium
    Mar 10, 2025
    This year’s final Property Tax/Rent Rebate Clinic hosted by Rep. Martin Causer, R-Turtlepoint, will be held Thursday at the Emporium Senior Center, 10...
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    Social Security Matters: Was starting wife’s benefits a mistake?
    Business, Local News, News
    Social Security Matters: Was starting wife’s benefits a mistake?
    RUSSELL GLOOR 
    Mar 07, 2025
    DEAR RUSTY: I hope we haven't made a mistake! My wife just applied for her Social Security benefit. She was born in May 1962, and the estimated amount...
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    Actually, tax cuts will mean a huge deficit
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Actually, tax cuts will mean a huge deficit
    DAVID MASTIO The Kansas City Star 
    Mar 07, 2025
    WASHINGTON (TNS) — In Donald Trump’s speech, personalities loomed large. Whether it was George Washington’s second best presidency or Elon Musk’s bril...
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    McKean Co. due for $2 million in gas tax funding
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    McKean Co. due for $2 million in gas tax funding
    Sara Furlong s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
    Mar 07, 2025
    McKean County is due to receive more than $2 million in liquid fuels payments for its municipalities to maintain roads and bridges. The Pennsylvania D...
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    Don’t punish cyber charters for being fiscally responsible
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Don’t punish cyber charters for being fiscally responsible
    RACHEL LANGAN RealClearPennsylvania 
    Mar 06, 2025
    Pennsylvania cyber charter schools are under attack for – of all things — not wastefully spending taxpayer money. The Pennsylvania Department of the A...
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    Treasurer talks long-term fiscal outlook
    News, PA State News
    Treasurer talks long-term fiscal outlook
    CHRISTINA LENGYEL The Center Square 
    Mar 06, 2025
    HARRISBURG - State Treasurer Stacy Garrity enjoyed bipartisan praise for several of the initiatives her office has undertaken during the department's ...
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    About those Medicaid ‘cuts’
    Opinion, Сolumns
    About those Medicaid ‘cuts’
    Mar 04, 2025
    Democrats believe they’ve found a potent issue in GOP Medicaid reform. They are hammering at Republican lawmakers, accusing them of not aggressively o...
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    Social Security Matters: Should I wait until age 70?
    Business, Local News, News
    Social Security Matters: Should I wait until age 70?
    RUSSELL GLOOR 
    Feb 28, 2025
    DEAR RUSTY: I am a married woman, at my full retirement age, and the primary earner in my marriage. How do I know if I should take my Social Security ...
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    Cutting red tape can supercharge growth — and tame inflation
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Cutting red tape can supercharge growth — and tame inflation
    WILLIAM BEACH and PARKER SHEPPARD 
    Feb 28, 2025
    The Trump administration is doubling down on deregulation. Quite literally, in fact: Where the previous Trump administration removed five regulations ...
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    Cutting red tape can supercharge growth — and tame inflation
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Cutting red tape can supercharge growth — and tame inflation
    WILLIAM BEACH and PARKER SHEPPARD 
    Feb 28, 2025
    The Trump administration is doubling down on deregulation. Quite literally, in fact: Where the previous Trump administration removed five regulations ...
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    Reform Pa. cyber charter funding
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Reform Pa. cyber charter funding
    Feb 26, 2025
    A recent report from Auditor General Tim DeFoor, a Republican, has found that Pennsylvania's cyber charter schools, deploying an archaic tuition model...
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    Auditor General calls for cyber charter funding reform
    Local News, News, PA State News
    Auditor General calls for cyber charter funding reform
    CHRISTINA LENGYEL The Center Square 
    Feb 26, 2025
    HARRISBURG — A new analysis of cyber charter school funding offers a familiar recommendation: consider recalculating how the state pays to keep them o...
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    Scratch-off worth $3 million sold in Punxsy
    Local News, News, PA State News
    Scratch-off worth $3 million sold in Punxsy
    Feb 26, 2025
    MIDDLETOWN — A Pennsylvania Lottery retailer in Jefferson County sold a $3 million-winning The Hunt for $3,000,000 Scratch-Off. Uni-Mart, 512 East Mah...
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    Additional Property Tax/Rent Rebate assistance clinics
    Local News, News
    Additional Property Tax/Rent Rebate assistance clinics
    Feb 26, 2025
    Annual Property Tax/Rent Rebate Clinics hosted by Rep. Martin Causer, R-Turtlepoint, will continue during the week of March 3 with the following event...
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    House digs into big education budget
    News, PA State News
    House digs into big education budget
    CHRISTINA LENGYEL The Center Square 
    Feb 25, 2025
    HARRISBURG — Education is the second largest spending area in the state’s budget after human services. For legislators on both sides of the aisle, the...
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    Additional Property Tax/Rent Rebate assistance clinics
    Local News, News, PA State News
    Additional Property Tax/Rent Rebate assistance clinics
    Feb 21, 2025
    Annual Property Tax/Rent Rebate clinics hosted by state Reps. Martin Causer, R-Turtlepoint, and Mike Armanini, R-DuBois, will continue next week. Sess...
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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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