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    Real winner from House fight? Mitch McConnell
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Real winner from House fight? Mitch McConnell
    DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
    Jan 09, 2023
    WASHINGTON (TNS) — The television split screen told the story. On one side, Republicans in the House of Representatives labored through the fourth of ...
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    State lawmakers turn to creative solutions in speaker fights
    News, PA State News
    State lawmakers turn to creative solutions in speaker fights
    JULIE CARR SMYTH and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press 
    Jan 08, 2023
    As Republican infighting debilitates Washington, lawmakers at some U.S. statehouses have managed to launch sessions complicated by similar GOP partisa...
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    Some sure-fire 2023 predictions
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Some sure-fire 2023 predictions
    Jan 03, 2023
    It’s another New Year and time for a round of predictions — whether they turn out right will be up to history to decide. Russia’s former president Dmi...
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    Dems don’t have majority control of Pa. House, legislative service states
    News, PA State News
    Dems don’t have majority control of Pa. House, legislative service states
    JAN MURPHY PennLive 
    Dec 08, 2022
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — Pennsylvania House Democrats’ claim that they hold the majority in the 203-member chamber in an ongoing power struggle has been rej...
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    Lancaster County rep retains grasp on Pa. House Republican caucus
    News, PA State News
    Lancaster County rep retains grasp on Pa. House Republican caucus
    CHARLES THOMPSON PennLive 
    Nov 22, 2022
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — Rep. Bryan Cutler, current Speaker of the Pennsylvania House, will continue to lead the state House Republican caucus into the new ...
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    Kevin McCarthy’s task
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Kevin McCarthy’s task
    RICH LOWRY 
    Nov 18, 2022
    Kevin McCarthy may now have the hardest job in Washington. Assuming that he becomes speaker of the House, which will require the near-unanimous suppor...
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    Westmoreland Co. senator first woman elected as Pa. Senate president pro tempore
    News, PA State News
    Westmoreland Co. senator first woman elected as Pa. Senate president pro tempore
    MIKE WERESC HAGIN Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    Nov 17, 2022
    PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Facing a dramatically different political landscape than Republicans had expected, with the possibility of Democrats in control of ...
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    Batch of unrecorded votes helps GOP in too-close-to-call Pa. House control
    News, PA State News
    Batch of unrecorded votes helps GOP in too-close-to-call Pa. House control
    CHARLES THOMPSON PennLive 
    Nov 14, 2022
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — Republicans in Pennsylvania got some good news Monday in their surprisingly shaky quest to maintain a majority in the state House o...
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    Spin election results now, win political battles later
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Spin election results now, win political battles later
    JONATHAN BERNSTEIN Tribune News Service 
    Oct 30, 2022
    The polls won’t close for more than a week, but there already is plenty of spin casting blame and taking credit for midterm wins and losses. Yet as mi...
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    Abortion isn’t saving the Democrats
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Abortion isn’t saving the Democrats
    RICH LOWRY 
    Jul 15, 2022
    Democrats have been looking for a political lifeline and believe that the Dobbs case overturning Roe v. Wade is it. The problem is that their radicali...
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    Time for critics to step up
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Time for critics to step up
    Jun 26, 2022
    Many conservative state legislators cheered Friday when the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion that an earlier court h...
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    Is our problem gun control … or democracy?
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Is our problem gun control … or democracy?
    GENE LYONS 
    Jun 02, 2022
    Think about it this way: There is no army or police department in any halfway civilized country — not even the United States — that would allow an unt...
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    America’s semiconductor problem
    Opinion, Сolumns
    America’s semiconductor problem
    May 04, 2022
    America faces a serious economic and national security risk when it comes to the development and manufacturing of semiconductor chips that are integra...
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    Divided Pa. court explains choice of new congressional map
    News
    Divided Pa. court explains choice of new congressional map
    MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press 
    Mar 09, 2022
    HARRISBURG — All seven Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices issued opinions Wednesday regarding their 4-3 vote last month to pick a new map of the stat...
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    Thompson retains most of 15th in redistricting
    News
    Thompson retains most of 15th in redistricting
    Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
    Feb 23, 2022
    Editor's note: Thisarticle is corrected to note that Rep. Glenn Thompson will seek his eighth term in Congress. U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson said Wednesda...
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    Gerrymandering is election fraud
    Gerrymandering is election fraud
    Jan 17, 2022
    Republicans who have controlled the state Legislature for all but four of the past 27 years have been able to do so partly because of gerrymandering. ...
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    Restore filibuster requirements
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Restore filibuster requirements
    Jan 14, 2022
    Proclaiming himself “tired of being quiet,” President Biden Tuesday proposed retiring the filibuster — the 60-vote threshold for getting almost anythi...
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    Poll: Pennsylvanians divided over 2020 election fairness
    News, PA State News
    Poll: Pennsylvanians divided over 2020 election fairness
    ANDREW SCOTT The Morning Call 
    Jan 13, 2022
    ALLENTOWN (TNS) — As Pennsylvania is expected to loom large in upcoming midterm elections, its residents who voted in the 2020 election are still shar...
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    Demolishing Democrats’ delusions
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Demolishing Democrats’ delusions
    BYRON YORK 
    Dec 23, 2021
    Sen. Joe Manchin’s announcement that he will not support the Democrats’ giant spending bill should not have been a surprise to anyone who has been wat...
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    After court argument, seething frustration on the left
    Opinion, Сolumns
    After court argument, seething frustration on the left
    BYRON YORK 
    Dec 09, 2021
    One theme of Democratic control of Washington has been frustration, especially among the party’s progressive wing and its cheerleaders in the media, t...
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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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    State tourism officials: In 2026, Pa. will be the ‘epicenter of the sports world’
    Local Sports, Sports
    State tourism officials: In 2026, Pa. will be the ‘epicenter of the sports world’
    Jo Wankel 
    June 14, 2025
    (TNS) —As golfers teed off during opening day of this year's 125th U.S. Open Championship, state officials inside of a tent overlooking the course's 1...
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