opinion

Biden’s migrant crisis hits the blue states
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Sep 20, 2022
The nation is having a contentious debate over whether illegal migrants coming over the Southern border should be transported farther inland, and if s...
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Hold tax refunds from Turnpike toll deadbeats
Opinion, Сolumns
PAUL MUSCHICK The Morning Call 
Sep 19, 2022
ALLENTOWN (TNS) — The problem of unpaid Turnpike tolls is getting worse. Much worse. Yet state lawmakers aren’t in a hurry to do anything about it. Th...
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Putin’s brutality in Ukraine can get worse
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS 
Sep 19, 2022
Russia’s imperious president, Vladimir Putin, may have just endured his worst week since the collapse of the Soviet Union, which he says was the great...
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Pa. should accelerate its EV game
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 19, 2022
PennDOT has received the first $25.4 million of the $170 million it will receive from the new federal infrastructure law through 2026 to develop an el...
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Senate Republicans run and hide on abortion
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Sep 18, 2022
There was a time when Senate Republicans were squarely behind a federal ban on late-term abortion. And it wasn’t long ago. When South Carolina Sen. Li...
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Second chances for suspended drivers
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 16, 2022
A driver’s license suspension in Pennsylvania usually results from truly bad driving rather than from bad luck. {p class=”krtText”}The state has a rea...
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A bull market for conflicts
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 16, 2022
Members of Congress steadfastly have refused to pass a law that would preclude them from using their insider knowledge for personal profit. Now The Ne...
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Other Voices: Who’s the threat?
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 12, 2022
The president labels MAGA folks a threat to our democracy. An examination of his actions and plans since taking office — at the behest of left wing ra...
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Long live the queen!
Opinion, Сolumns
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ 
Sep 12, 2022
“Many religions have festivals which celebrate light overcoming darkness ... They seem to speak to every culture, and appeal to people of all faiths, ...
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Free speech allergy in academia
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 12, 2022
Columbia, No. 2 on U.S. News & World Report’s coveted college list, withdrew from the rankings this summer after one of its own math professors questi...
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Other Voices: Nothing but no votes
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 09, 2022
Rep. Glenn Thompson, you were a nursing home administrator before you became my U.S. congressman. Why do you vote no to all the bills that would help ...
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Other Voices: Very little leadership
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 06, 2022
President Biden’s recent speech in which he denounces what he calls “MAGA” Republicans as an anti-democratic force which cannot be tolerated, flanked ...
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Trump stands in way of GOP flipping Congress
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Sep 06, 2022
Two months ago, as Americans began their summer vacations, the political landscape looked bleak for Joe Biden and his Democrats. Inflation was soaring...
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Fix the license plate statute
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 01, 2022
A panel of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania has ruled that police can pull drivers over with even a speck of their license plates obscured by frames...
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