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    The Sunshine Act: What you need to know about public meetings
    Opinion, Сolumns
    The Sunshine Act: What you need to know about public meetings
    MELISSA MELEWSKY 
    Mar 14, 2023
    HARRISBURG — It’s Sunshine Week across the nation, and the annual event underscores the importance of open government. That makes it a great time to e...
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    The censorship-industrial complex must be broken
    Opinion, Сolumns
    The censorship-industrial complex must be broken
    SUSAN SHELLEY Tribune News Service 
    Mar 13, 2023
    LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Every once in a while, events come together like the last act of a play by Agatha Christie. Because Rep. Kevin McCarthy had to mak...
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    Bill would ban bias response teams from Pa. public colleges
    News, PA State News
    Bill would ban bias response teams from Pa. public colleges
    ANTHONY HENNEN The Center Square 
    Mar 12, 2023
    HARRISBURG — College campuses in recent years have created “bias response teams” to respond to student concerns over bias or controversial speech, wit...
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    A bipartisan problem requires a bipartisan solution
    Opinion, Сolumns
    A bipartisan problem requires a bipartisan solution
    FRED LUCAS Tribune News Service 
    Mar 12, 2023
    Los Angeles County, a bastion of left-wing politics, removed 1.2 million ineligible voters from its voter rolls in February — a move the Democrats fre...
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    Public defenders hopeful as momentum for more state support grows
    News, PA State News
    Public defenders hopeful as momentum for more state support grows
    LAUREN JESSOP The Center Square 
    Mar 10, 2023
    HARRISBURG — The governor’s proposed budget may provide a boost to a bill working its way through the Senate that would fund public defender offices a...
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    Pa. Legislature’s financial reserves set record high at $261M
    News, PA State News
    Pa. Legislature’s financial reserves set record high at $261M
    JAN MURPHY PennLive 
    Mar 10, 2023
    HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s legislative branch made history when it closed the books on the 2021-22 fiscal year by sitting on its largest-ever surplus...
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    Casey holds hearing on Caregiving Crisis
    News, PA State News
    Casey holds hearing on Caregiving Crisis
    Mar 10, 2023
    WASHINGTON — On Thursday, U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman Bob Casey, D-PA, held a hearing entitled “Uplifting Families, Workers, and O...
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    Casey legislation would make tax code fairer to workers
    Nation, News, PA State News
    Casey legislation would make tax code fairer to workers
    Marcie 
    Mar 10, 2023
    WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., introduced two bills to make the tax code fairer for workers by easing their tax burden and cracking down on ...
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    First Amendment is under siege
    Opinion, Сolumns
    First Amendment is under siege
    Mar 09, 2023
    Hostility to the First Amendment is a bipartisan endeavor. Too many elected officials take an oath to uphold the Constitution without having bothered ...
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    Pa. school allies criticize Shapiro’s budget plan
    News, PA State News
    Pa. school allies criticize Shapiro’s budget plan
    BROOKE SCHULTZ and MARC LEVY Associated Press 
    Mar 08, 2023
    HARRISBURG — Lawyers for the districts that won a landmark school funding court case in Pennsylvania say that Gov. Josh Shapiro’s budget proposal fall...
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    Pennsylvania lawmaker quits amid sex harassment allegations
    News, PA State News
    Pennsylvania lawmaker quits amid sex harassment allegations
    MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press 
    Mar 08, 2023
    HARRISBURG — A Pennsylvania state lawmaker submitted his resignation letter Wednesday, a week after a union lobbyist accused him by name of having sex...
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    Report says Legislature’s spending, surplus jumped last year
    PA State News
    Report says Legislature’s spending, surplus jumped last year
    Marcie 
    Mar 08, 2023
    HARRISBURG (AP) — The Pennsylvania Legislature’s spending, including on lawmaker and staff salaries, rose last year, and its surplus also grew to a re...
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    Pennsylvania lawmaker quits amid sex harassment allegations
    PA State News
    Pennsylvania lawmaker quits amid sex harassment allegations
    MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press 
    Mar 08, 2023
    HARRISBURG (AP) — A Pennsylvania state lawmaker submitted his resignation letter Wednesday, a week after a union lobbyist accused him by name of havin...
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    Norfolk Southern CEO pledges Pennsylvania visit
    News, PA State News
    Norfolk Southern CEO pledges Pennsylvania visit
    ANTHONY HENNEN The Center Square 
    Mar 08, 2023
    HARRISBURG — Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw did not appear in front of Pennsylvania lawmakers on Wednesday, but is expected to do so later this month ...
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    Spring Forward, Fall Back
    News, Online Features
    Spring Forward, Fall Back
    SALLY RYAN COSTIK Curator of the Bradford Landmark Society 
    Mar 08, 2023
    This Sunday, March 12, at 2 a.m., time will “spring forward” as we mark the end of Standard Time (also known as Normal Time), and the beginning of Day...
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    Shapiro’s 1st Pennsylvania budget stresses schools, prudence
    News, Online Features, PA State News
    Shapiro’s 1st Pennsylvania budget stresses schools, prudence
    MARC LEVY Associated Press 
    Mar 07, 2023
    HARRISBURG (AP) — Gov. Josh Shapiro is proposing a hefty an increase in aid to Pennsylvania’s schools in his first budget delivered Tuesday to the Leg...
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    Report: Mastriano is considering U.S. Senate run
    News, PA State News
    Report: Mastriano is considering U.S. Senate run
    ANDREW SEIDMAN The Philadelphia Inquirer 
    Mar 07, 2023
    PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — State Sen. Doug Mastriano, the MAGA firebrand who lost the Pennsylvania governor’s race last year by double digits, is considerin...
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    No driving and holding phones
    Opinion, Сolumns
    No driving and holding phones
    Mar 06, 2023
    Every day, nine Americans die in vehicle crashes caused by distracted driving, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Injury Cent...
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    Bipartisan bill for rail safety
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Bipartisan bill for rail safety
    Mar 06, 2023
    Heard of the malady termed “do-somethingism”? Certain elected officials are particularly susceptible, especially after a much-publicized disaster. It ...
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    End legislative standoff over child sex victim lawsuits
    Opinion, Сolumns
    End legislative standoff over child sex victim lawsuits
    PAUL MUSCHICK The Morning Call 
    Mar 05, 2023
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — Helping people who were raped and molested when they were children decades ago should have been the easiest task of the year for th...
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    Local oil purchasers increase prices
    Business, Local News
    Local oil purchasers increase prices
    August 25, 2025
    Two local oil purchasers have increased the price they will pay for Penn grade crude oil. Effective Friday, American Refining Group and Ergon Oil Purc...
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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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