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    Perceiving Trump’s endgame
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Perceiving Trump’s endgame
    G. DIRK MATEER and CHARITY-JOY ACCHIARDO RealClearPolitics 
    Feb 25, 2025
    What lies ahead now that Americans have just witnessed one of the most dramatic trade gambits seen at the beginning of a presidential term? By most ac...
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    Vexing AI questions confront lawmakers: ‘We have got to get moving on this’
    News, PA State News
    Vexing AI questions confront lawmakers: ‘We have got to get moving on this’
    FORD TURNER Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    Feb 24, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — Artificial Intelligence is trained by "scraping" the creative works of humans and then producing its own works that humans read, vi...
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    Guest Comment: Seeking real answers to DOGE questions
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Guest Comment: Seeking real answers to DOGE questions
    JOHN M. CLELAND Special to The Era 
    Feb 24, 2025
    Our representative in the U.S. Congress, Glenn Thompson, is chair of the House Agriculture Committee. The committee oversees the U.S. Forest Service a...
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    Seeing Pa. go from blue to red — through two precincts
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Seeing Pa. go from blue to red — through two precincts
    GUY CIARROCCHI RealClearPennsylvania 
    Feb 24, 2025
    Donald Trump’s Pennsylvania victory was a story within a story. He not only won the state but also changed the GOP path to winning it. His 2024 county...
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    Success and areas of improvement for State Department budget hearing
    News, PA State News
    Success and areas of improvement for State Department budget hearing
    CHRISTINA LENGYEL The Center Square 
    Feb 21, 2025
    HARRISBURG – Congratulations were in order for the Department of State during its appearance before the Senate Appropriations committee following last...
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    Justice Department crisis was an unforced error
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Justice Department crisis was an unforced error
    NOAH FELDMAN Bloomberg Opinion 
    Feb 21, 2025
    WASHINGTON (TNS) — Here’s the most important yet overlooked fact about theJustice Departmentprosecutors who resigned rather than drop charges againstN...
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    Trump is delivering, but the goal shouldn’t be chaos
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Trump is delivering, but the goal shouldn’t be chaos
    MATT WYLIE The Charlotte Observer 
    Feb 21, 2025
    HILTON HEAD, S.C. (TNS) — It’s been pretty entertaining watching the left unravel day after day. Turn on almost any network — exceptFox News— and you’...
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    Bitcoin and digital asset bills filed in at least 31 states
    Nation & World, News, PA State News
    Bitcoin and digital asset bills filed in at least 31 states
    BETHANY BLANKLEY The Center Square 
    Feb 21, 2025
    HARRISBURG — Bitcoin and digital asset bills have been filed in at least 31 state legislatures, according to a Bitcoin Laws website tracking state leg...
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    One of America’s great injustices
    One of America’s great injustices
    Feb 20, 2025
    PresidentFranklin D. Rooseveltsigned the now-infamous Executive Order 9066 on Feb. 19, 1942, which gave military commanders the power to prescribe are...
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    Battered Democrats hope to regain their focus
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Battered Democrats hope to regain their focus
    CARL P. LEUBSDORF The Dallas Morning News 
    Feb 20, 2025
    WASHINGTON (TNS) — Like everyone else in Washington, Democratic Party leaders have been stunned by the speed and the breadth of President Donald Trump...
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    Pa. Sen. Dave McCormick on board with Trump, DOGE shakeup while Sen. John Fetterman blasts ‘chaos, confusion’
    Nation & World, News, PA State News
    Pa. Sen. Dave McCormick on board with Trump, DOGE shakeup while Sen. John Fetterman blasts ‘chaos, confusion’
    BENJAMIN KAIL Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    Feb 20, 2025
    WASHINGTON (TNS) — U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick says he's on board with President Donald Trump's and Elon Musk's efforts to overhaul the federal governmen...
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    DOGE notches courtroom wins as Elon Musk crusades to slash federal government
    Nation & World, News
    DOGE notches courtroom wins as Elon Musk crusades to slash federal government
    LINDSAY WHITEHURST, CHRIS MEGERIAN and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press 
    Feb 20, 2025
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Although some parts of President Donald Trump ’s agenda are getting bogged down by litigation, Elon Musk ’s Department of Government...
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    Black men poised to shake up Pa.’s political landscape
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Black men poised to shake up Pa.’s political landscape
    ATHAN KOUTSIOUROUMBAS 
    Feb 20, 2025
    Thanks in part to African-American men, Pennsylvania’s political tectonics are shifting in ways that were unimaginable just a short time ago. In the 2...
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    Hiring difficulties, trooper cap hamstringing state police
    Local News, News, PA State News
    Hiring difficulties, trooper cap hamstringing state police
    CHRIS COMISAC The Center Square 
    Feb 20, 2025
    HARRISBURG — Ongoing political tension means law enforcement agencies across the nation still face hiring challenges. During their budget hearings in ...
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    Budget hearings kick off with plenty of revenue questions
    Local News, News, PA State News
    Budget hearings kick off with plenty of revenue questions
    CHRIS COMISAC The Center Square 
    Feb 19, 2025
    HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania's budget hearings began on Tuesday in the state Capitol as legislators in the General Assembly start to review Gov. Josh Sha...
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    House report: 60 Chinese espionage cases, 224 espionage incidents in three years
    Nation & World, News, World
    House report: 60 Chinese espionage cases, 224 espionage incidents in three years
    BETHANY BLANKLEY The Center Square 
    Feb 18, 2025
    WASHINGTON – More than 60 Chinese Communist Party-related cases of espionage and acts of transnational repression have been reported in 20 states acco...
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    ‘Round the Square: The first 100 days
    News, Round the Square
    ‘Round the Square: The first 100 days
    Feb 18, 2025
    DAYS: The first hundred days of a president’s term are considered a benchmark for action. How did it become so important? We owe that to Franklin D. R...
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    Guest Comment: Stand up for democracy
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Guest Comment: Stand up for democracy
    DAVID FITZ Special to The Era 
    Feb 17, 2025
    An authoritarian coup is happening in the United States. And “we the people” are the only ones who can stop it. We must preserve and restore our democ...
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    More bad news for taxpayers
    Opinion, Сolumns
    More bad news for taxpayers
    Feb 17, 2025
    The federal deficit will be $21.1 trillion in the 10-year period from 2025 to 2034, according to projections in the Congressional Budget Office’s bian...
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    Bill would reauthorize Secure Rural Schools program
    Local News, Nation & World, News, ...
    Bill would reauthorize Secure Rural Schools program
    Feb 17, 2025
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Glenn "GT" Thompson, R-Pa., joined Reps. Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif., and Joe Neguse, D-Colo., in introducing the Secure Rural...
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    Ducks drift in clear creek
    Local News
    Ducks drift in clear creek
    July 3, 2025
    A common merganser and her 10 quickly growing ducklings glide over the clear water in the East Branch of the Tunungwant Creek. The group was spotted m...
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    Highway resurfacing on Genesee Mills Road to start Monday
    Local News
    Highway resurfacing on Genesee Mills Road to start Monday
    July 3, 2025
    CLEARFIELD — The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced that a highway resurfacing project impacting Genesee Mills Road (Route ...
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    America’s broken politics is breaking economics, too
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    America’s broken politics is breaking economics, too
    By ALLISON SCHRAGER Bloomberg Opinion 
    July 3, 2025
    NEW YORK (TNS) — The political realignment has come for economics. At least since the days of Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes in the last cent...
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    Superior Court denies appeal from 2015 cocaine bust
    Crime, Local News
    Superior Court denies appeal from 2015 cocaine bust
    By MARCIE SCHELLHAMMER marcie@bradfordera.com 
    July 3, 2025
    The state Superior Court has rejected an appeal from a Bradford man who claimed his cocaine sale to an informant in 2015 was entrapment. James Howard ...
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    The Gen Z vote in Pennsylvania
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    The Gen Z vote in Pennsylvania
    By MATT ZUPON RealClearPennsylvania 
    July 3, 2025
    Presidential elections present voters with a mix of triumphs, scandals and defining moments. The 2024 election was no exception. From Donald Trump’s n...
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    PennDOT to close West Washington Street for bridge replacement Monday
    Local News
    PennDOT to close West Washington Street for bridge replacement Monday
    July 3, 2025
    CLEARFIELD — The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced that a detour will go into place Monday as work begins to replace a bri...
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