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Other Voices: Lowry is no patriot
Opinion, Сolumns
May 03, 2022
The commentary, “Let Disney be an Example," by National Review editor-in-chief Rich Lowry, in theApril 23 edition of The Era,should be a wakeup call t...
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Musk faces tall Twitter task
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 29, 2022
Elon Musk made a big purchase this week. You may have heard. Some billionaires buy yachts, jets or islands. Musk’s vanity purchases venture into uncha...
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Fairly fund Pennsylvania schools
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 29, 2022
In attempting to defend the indefensible in a Commonwealth Court trial, state legislative leaders who concocted the demonstrably unfair funding of Pen...
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With Twitter comes responsibility
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 27, 2022
One of the world’s most influential social media platforms will soon be under the private ownership of the world’s richest person. What could possibly...
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Happy Easter or Buona Pasqua!
News, Opinion
MANDY COLOSIMO erastaff.43@gmail.com 
Apr 16, 2022
As I researched for how Italian traditions might differ from others, I found only references to food and recipes. From what I can tell, Italy is a cou...
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Can Amtrak handle growth?
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 12, 2022
Thanks to billions of dollars in new federal cash soon to be flowing from last year’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), it seems halcyon ...
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Pa. court blocks governor’s carbon emissions plan
Opinion, Сolumns
MARC LEVY and MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press 
Apr 06, 2022
HARRISBURG — A Pennsylvania court has blocked the centerpiece of Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to fight climate change, the latest challenge to the Democrat’s ...
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SCOTUS needs ethics rules
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 04, 2022
Long before Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, Ginni, was revealed to be an enthusiastic cheerleader for insurrection, ethics problems dogge...
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Parents let the culture teach their kids values
Opinion, Сolumns
CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Apr 04, 2022
FORT WORTH, Texas — In 2020, I wrote about how my family, which at the time included three preschool-aged children, opted to skip the Super Bowl to av...
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Biden avoids tax solutions
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 01, 2022
Biden’s “billionaire minimum income tax” is really a wealth tax — and it’s a bad idea for tax policy in general. On Monday, Biden rolled out a propose...
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Leading the way on wages
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 01, 2022
When the wheels of government turn slowly, or not at all, the private sector must take the driver’s seat. That’s certainly the case with Pennsylvania’...
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Quit winging it and fly home, Putin
Opinion, Сolumns
MARTIN SCHRAM Tribune News Service 
Apr 01, 2022
In 2012, Vladimir Putin took his media corps out to an Arctic peninsula in Siberia to showcase his leadership prowess for all the world to see. Then h...
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Clarence Thomas is better than his critics
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Apr 01, 2022
Clarence Thomas is, by far, our most abused Supreme Court justice. His confirmation hearings in 1991 were, as he memorably put it, a high-tech lynchin...
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End wait for juvenile justice reform
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 22, 2022
Pennsylvania has made incremental but significant progress in juvenile justice reforms in more than a decade since the perverse “Kids for Cash” juveni...
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Putin exposed as pitiful
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 22, 2022
{p class=”krtHeadline”}We always knew that Vladimir Putin was evil. He ordered the murders of dissidents and journalists in Russia, and he caused coun...
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