politics

Punishing those with good credit
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 19, 2023
The Biden administration wants homebuyers who have good credit to cover the risks of lending to homebuyers who don’t. Congressional Republicans should...
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Use settlement for treatment
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 19, 2023
Before the COVID-19 emergency changed the subject early in 2020, Pennsylvania had made significant progress against the opioid epidemic that had been ...
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NPRC names Kane mayor as commencement speaker
News, Online Features
Apr 19, 2023
WARREN — Northern Pennsylvania Regional College is pleased to announce Brandy Schimp, the Mayor of Kane, Pennsylvania, as the 2023 Commencement speake...
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Pentagon documents leak will embolden Putin
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN The Philadelphia Inquirer 
Apr 18, 2023
JERUSALEM (TNS) — Here’s one of the most maddening aspects of the mindless leak of hundreds of classified documents by a group of young men and boys p...
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DeSantis not dead yet
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Apr 18, 2023
The Ron DeSantis presidential campaign sure was good while it lasted. The conventional wisdom has turned so decidedly against the Florida governor tha...
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Slow going in Harrisburg
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 18, 2023
During the two months that the “full-time” state House managed not to meet early this year, legislatures in several other states wrapped up their busi...
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Consequences for a stupid kid
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 17, 2023
So maybe Jack Teixeira, a lowly 21-year-old enlisted man in the Massachusetts Air National Guard still living at his mom’s house, thought it was wicke...
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High stakes over Ukraine’s spring offensive
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS 
Apr 17, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — The bizarre torrent of intelligence documents posted on a gamers’ chat server, allegedly by a 21-year-old National Guard technician...
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Pa. bill mitigates medical debt
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 17, 2023
America is an outlier among advanced nations regarding health care. It is far more expensive here, and individuals bear a bigger share of the cost tha...
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Dems float ignoring judiciary
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 16, 2023
Imagine the reaction if a federal court a few years back had ruled against a controversial White House executive order, and Trump administration offic...
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California’s cautionary clean energy tale
Opinion, Сolumns
REA S. HEDERMAN JR.and WILL SWAIM 
Apr 16, 2023
California’s headlong rush to replace its electricity grid with renewable energy has given the rest of the country a preview of the decarbonized futur...
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Republicans can’t run and hide on abortion
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Apr 16, 2023
Politicians are motivated by many things, among them power, fame, idealism, greed — and fear. The last of these is not to be underestimated. It is a p...
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