opinion

Much ado about nothing?
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 17, 2021
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows joined Fox News host Sean Hannity Monday in denouncing the House select committee investigation of the ...
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Ensure access to telemedicine
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 15, 2021
There is no such thing as good timing for a pandemic, but COVID-19 at least arose in an era when people could use technology to address their other me...
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The failure of ‘Latinx’
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Dec 15, 2021
What the progressive culture elite wants, it usually gets. Single-sex bathrooms changing overnight to all-gender or non-gender bathrooms? Done. Illega...
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Court doesn’t address safety
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 15, 2021
The legal back and forth is over and done. Pennsylvania’s mask mandate for schools is kaput. So now what? Now it is up to school districts to decide w...
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NH’s past is not prologue
Opinion, Сolumns
DAVID M. SHRIBMAN 
Nov 29, 2021
NORTH CONWAY, N.H. — Nobody wants to run for the Senate as a Republican in this state. Well, not exactly nobody. But nobody who isn’t, for want of a b...
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The miracle of fatherhood
Opinion, Сolumns
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ 
Nov 29, 2021
Over the last few weeks, Pope Francis has been pointing to St. Joseph, the foster father of Jesus, as a role model. At a time when the United States h...
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Other Voices: Time to move on
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 01, 2021
After reading another rendition about Donald Trump being all things bad by Dee Baxter, I thought, maybe it is time for her to stop sounding like a bro...
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Bill accelerates justice reform
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 28, 2021
WILKES-BARRE (AP) — Just a week after the Wolf administration announced that the state prison population had declined to its lowest level in decades —...
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US attorney general at war with free speech
Opinion, Сolumns
JAY AMBROSE Tribune News Service 
Oct 19, 2021
It was a president named George Washington who said, “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led like sheep to the slaught...
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Other Voices: There is no need
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 12, 2021
I read state Sen. Cris Dush's guest commentary in the Oct. 4 edition of The Era and noticed he did not establish the need for for an investigation of ...
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Time for real press conferences
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 10, 2021
A press conference is supposed to be a give and take. Somewhere between a dance and a duel, it depends on both sides taking turns. The speaker gives a...
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Seeds of contention sown
Opinion, Сolumns
DAVID M. SHRIBMAN 
Oct 10, 2021
PITTSBURGH — In December 1833, a young man from Chester, N.H., moved to Washington to take up a position as a clerk in the House of Representatives, s...
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Motherhood and the future
Opinion, Сolumns
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ 
Oct 10, 2021
“The decision to have children has always struck me as an essentially selfish one: You choose, out of a desire for fulfillment or self-betterment or c...
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