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    100 days: Pa. gov describes the experience as ‘humbling’
    News, PA State News
    100 days: Pa. gov describes the experience as ‘humbling’
    JAN MURPHY PennLive 
    Apr 27, 2023
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — Gov. Josh Shapiro described his first 100 days since he was sworn into office on Jan. 17 as “humbling.” “I feel a real sense of res...
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    New push to make Pa.’s primary elections open to independents
    News, PA State News
    New push to make Pa.’s primary elections open to independents
    FORD TURNER Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    Apr 27, 2023
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — More than 1.2 million registered Pennsylvania voters can’t take part in the state’s “closed” party primary elections. A veteran sta...
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    Pa. Dems want mail ballots counted faster; GOP has other ideas
    News, PA State News
    Pa. Dems want mail ballots counted faster; GOP has other ideas
    GILLIAN McGOLDRICK The Philadelphia Inquirer 
    Apr 25, 2023
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — Newly empowered Pennsylvania House Democrats, in a position to move election legislation for the first time since the 2020 election...
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    Holy Moses, Texas state Senate
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Holy Moses, Texas state Senate
    Apr 25, 2023
    The Texas state Senate, apparently having solved all the problems in the Lone Star State, voted the other day to require every public elementary and s...
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    The drag craze and a college campus
    Opinion, Сolumns
    The drag craze and a college campus
    CYNTHIA M. ALLEN 
    Apr 24, 2023
    FORTH WORTH, Texas (TNS) — If you feel like drag queens are ubiquitous these days, you aren’t wrong. Whether it’s public libraries , advertisements or...
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    Fetterman gets back up to speed in first week back in Washington
    Nation, News, PA State News
    Fetterman gets back up to speed in first week back in Washington
    JONATHAN D. SALANT Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    Apr 22, 2023
    WASHINGTON (TNS) — U.S. Sen. John Fetterman didn’t need an acceleration lane to get up to speed after returning to Capitol Hill this week following a ...
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    Students help stock local lake
    Local Sports, Outdoors
    Students help stock local lake
    Apr 22, 2023
    SMETHPORT — The Fish and Boat Commission was out in McKean County stocking area waterways. They were greeted in Smethport by several members of the co...
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    Revamp laws for legal guardians
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Revamp laws for legal guardians
    Apr 21, 2023
    Most older people understand, by experience, the adage that “old age doesn’t come alone.” And, as people live longer, old age often comes with a legal...
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    PSU’s Franklin: Revenue sharing with players ‘inevitable’
    College Sports, Football, Local Sports
    PSU’s Franklin: Revenue sharing with players ‘inevitable’
    RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer 
    Apr 21, 2023
    STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Penn State coach James Franklin believes major college football players will inevitably be paid and the sooner it happens th...
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    Pa.’s state universities delay tuition decision to July
    News, PA State News
    Pa.’s state universities delay tuition decision to July
    SUSAN SNYDER The Philadelphia Inquirer 
    Apr 20, 2023
    PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education’s board of governors agreed to delay setting next year’s tuition rate until Jul...
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    Slow going in Harrisburg
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Slow going in Harrisburg
    Apr 18, 2023
    During the two months that the “full-time” state House managed not to meet early this year, legislatures in several other states wrapped up their busi...
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    Fetterman returns to Senate after six-week hospitalization
    News, PA State News
    Fetterman returns to Senate after six-week hospitalization
    JULIA TERRUSO The Philadelphia Inquirer 
    Apr 17, 2023
    WASHINGTON (TNS) — Sen. John Fetterman was to return to the Senate Monday for the first time since mid-February, after a six-week hospitalization for ...
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    Pa. bill mitigates medical debt
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Pa. bill mitigates medical debt
    Apr 17, 2023
    America is an outlier among advanced nations regarding health care. It is far more expensive here, and individuals bear a bigger share of the cost tha...
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    Report: Distracted driving deaths in Pa. spiked after pandemic
    News, PA State News
    Report: Distracted driving deaths in Pa. spiked after pandemic
    ANTHONY HENNEN The Center Square 
    Apr 16, 2023
    HARRISBURG — As distracted and dangerous driving makes Pennsylvania’s roads less safe, lowering the fatality and crash numbers may start with behavior...
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    Dems float ignoring judiciary
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Dems float ignoring judiciary
    Apr 16, 2023
    Imagine the reaction if a federal court a few years back had ruled against a controversial White House executive order, and Trump administration offic...
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    In private, Shapiro’s working group on climate change meets
    News, PA State News
    In private, Shapiro’s working group on climate change meets
    MARC LEVY Associated Press 
    Apr 14, 2023
    HARRISBURG — The group tasked by Gov. Josh Shapiro with developing a state-level plan to fight climate change met for the first time this week, a step...
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    Executive aggrandizement vs. women’s sports
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Executive aggrandizement vs. women’s sports
    RICH LOWRY 
    Apr 14, 2023
    Decades from now, when scholars are debating how the executive branch jumped the rails of any legislative accountability or rational rules, the new Bi...
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    Cautionary tale from Tennessee
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Cautionary tale from Tennessee
    Apr 13, 2023
    The Pennsylvania Legislature is no stranger to dissension. The state isn’t Democratic or Republican, after all. It isn’t even a muddled, muted purple....
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    Pa. looks to bring skill games under gambling regulation
    News, PA State News
    Pa. looks to bring skill games under gambling regulation
    ANTHONY HENNEN The Center Square 
    Apr 12, 2023
    HARRISBURG — More oversight for the gambling industry could be coming to Pennsylvania, this time focused on skill games. A proposed regulation would c...
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    2024 Republicans can’t wish away Trump, abortion
    Opinion, Сolumns
    2024 Republicans can’t wish away Trump, abortion
    A.B. STODDARD 
    Apr 12, 2023
    Republicans promised a red wave last November and then got faces full of egg. The precarious margin of control of the House, and the failure of Republ...
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    Residents, advocates unhappy with delay in fenceline monitoring around Clairton
    Business, PA State News
    Residents, advocates unhappy with delay in fenceline monitoring around Clairton
    By ANYA LITVAK  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    August 24, 2025
    (TNS) — It's the question asked by every fenceline community after an industrial accident: As the dust settles, what dangers linger in the air? Mon Va...
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    Apply safety rules to more trains carrying flammable cargo, lawmakers urge
    Business, Nation & World, PA State News
    Apply safety rules to more trains carrying flammable cargo, lawmakers urge
    By DARANEE BALACHANDAR, LIZZY ALSPACH, CAT MURPHY and AIDAN HUGHES / Howard Center for Investigative Journalism - Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland 
    August 24, 2025
    When a BNSF freight train carrying six cars of liquefied petroleum gas derailed near Manuelito, New Mexico, in 2024, the resulting fire shut down more...
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    Corn root traits evolved with both human-driven, natural environmental changes
    Nation & World, PA State News
    Corn root traits evolved with both human-driven, natural environmental changes
    August 24, 2025
    UNIVERSITY PARK — Corn was domesticated from its ancestor teosinte in central Mexico beginning about 9,000 years ago by humans selectively breeding th...
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    Aging U.S. railroad bridges are self-inspected and their findings are kept secret
    Business, Nation & World
    Aging U.S. railroad bridges are self-inspected and their findings are kept secret
    By LEX DOIG, JAEHEE KIM and ADRIAN MANCERA COTA / Howard Center for Investigative Journalism - Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at Arizona State University 
    August 24, 2025
    CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — The fire burned for about nine hours, billowing smoke and scorching the wooden trestles of a nearly 75-year-old railroad bridge...
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    Nephew jumps from the frying pan right into the fire
    Lifestyles
    Nephew jumps from the frying pan right into the fire
    August 24, 2025
    DEAR ABBY: After their 25th anniversary dinner, my nephew "Will" was blindsided when his wife announced that she had never loved him and has been in l...
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    Higher than expected use of health care services impacts Highmark’s bottom line
    Business, Local News, PA State News
    Higher than expected use of health care services impacts Highmark’s bottom line
    August 23, 2025
    (TNS) — Highmark Health's financial results for the first half of the year paint a picture of an improving performance for its 14-hospital network, ev...
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