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    Should we worry about American women having fewer kids?
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Should we worry about American women having fewer kids?
    May 05, 2025
    Americans are having fewer children, and the birth rate has dropped to historic lows — prompting declarations of aU.S.existential crisis, most notably...
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    More embarrassment for Harvard
    Opinion, Сolumns
    More embarrassment for Harvard
    May 02, 2025
    The Trump administration has turned a spotlight on Harvard University primarily over allegations of antisemitism. Last month theWhite Housefroze $2.2 ...
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    Spending actually up under Trump. Here’s why
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Spending actually up under Trump. Here’s why
    May 02, 2025
    President Donald Trump is spending taxpayer money 10% faster than Joe Biden was at this time last year, according to daily financial statements releas...
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    Study finds asylum seekers spiked homelessness
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Study finds asylum seekers spiked homelessness
    RACHEL GRESZLER 
    May 02, 2025
    WASHINGTON (TNS) — Between 2022 and 2024, the U.S. saw a record 43% rise in “sheltered homelessness” — staying in some sort of emergency shelter, as o...
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    Print, digital access essential for public notice
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Print, digital access essential for public notice
    WILLIAM M. COTTER 
    May 02, 2025
    A developer wants to rezone a public park to allow high-density housing. The local school board weighs a plan to close an elementary school. City coun...
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    Impeachment, really? Hack Democrat goes to the well again
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Impeachment, really? Hack Democrat goes to the well again
    NOLAN FINLEY The Detroit News 
    May 01, 2025
    DETROIT (TNS) — Americans knew exactly what they would get when they electedDonald Trumppresident last November. And now, to quote Mencken, they're ge...
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    Report: Waitlist long for services aiding individuals with disabilities
    Local News, News, PA State News
    Report: Waitlist long for services aiding individuals with disabilities
    CHRISTINA LENGYEL The Center Square 
    May 01, 2025
    HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania is home to hundreds of Community Participation Support, or CPS, programs meant to assist those living with intellectual disa...
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    GOP path to a Pa. majority
    Opinion, Сolumns
    GOP path to a Pa. majority
    GUY CIARROCCHI RealClearPennsylvania 
    Apr 30, 2025
    The new Pennsylvania GOP chairman, state Sen. Greg Rothman, was elected on a platform that can be described as: “Let’s make Pennsylvania Florida.” In ...
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    Schools must treat parents, kids with more respect
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Schools must treat parents, kids with more respect
    DAVID MASTIO Kansas City Star 
    Apr 29, 2025
    WASHINGTON (TNS) — The “queens” and “queers” of the kindergarten alphabet book “Pride Puppy” finally had their day before theSupreme Court. Predictabl...
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    ‘Round the Square: Politics and religion
    News, Round the Square
    ‘Round the Square: Politics and religion
    Apr 29, 2025
    DON’T: We’re always told that two topics to stay away from in polite company are politics and religion. In 2022, the Pew Research Center assembled som...
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    Canada aggressively attacks US trade, farmers and workers
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Canada aggressively attacks US trade, farmers and workers
    KENIN M. SPIVAK RealClearPolitics 
    Apr 28, 2025
    Canada has one of the most protectionist economies among developed nations. It particularly targets American farmers, media, and manufacturers. That m...
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    PHARE funding increase passes House
    Local News, News, PA State News
    PHARE funding increase passes House
    CHRISTINA LENGYEL The Center Square 
    Apr 28, 2025
    HARRISBURG — As it stands, the PA Housing and Rehabilitation Enhancement Fund, or PHARE, is capped at $100 million of the state’s ballooning budget. B...
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    A Pennsylvania DOGE? Maybe
    News, PA State News
    A Pennsylvania DOGE? Maybe
    LAUREN JESSOP The Center Square 
    Apr 26, 2025
    HARRISBURG — Lawmakers in both chambers of the General Assembly want to launch a Pennsylvania Department of Government Efficiency – or PA DOGE – that ...
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    Social Security Matters: Confusion about maintaining receipt of payments
    Business, News
    Social Security Matters: Confusion about maintaining receipt of payments
    RUSSELL GLOOR 
    Apr 25, 2025
    DEAR RUSTY: I am thoroughly confused. What do I need to do to continue receiving automatic Social Security deposits to my bank account, and maintain o...
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    McKean County Greens pass bylaws, elect officers
    Local News, News
    McKean County Greens pass bylaws, elect officers
    Apr 25, 2025
    The McKean County Green Party passed bylaws and elected officers this week. The chapter will seek affiliation with Green Party of Pennsylvania and fil...
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    Pell still works for American education
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Pell still works for American education
    THOMAS P. FOLEY 
    Apr 25, 2025
    There’s a lot of disagreement on higher education these days. One exception to all the discord, at least so far, are Pell Grants — a program that is e...
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    DOGE alone isn’t enough
    Opinion, Сolumns
    DOGE alone isn’t enough
    Apr 24, 2025
    Elon Musk is reportedly planning to spend less time tending to the budget-cutting DOGE project and more time on his businesses, according to Politico,...
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    Democrats’ hill to die on is illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Democrats’ hill to die on is illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia
    DEBRA J. SAUNDERS Las Vegas Review-Journal 
    Apr 24, 2025
    WASHINGTON(TNS) — Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia is the rope in the tug-of-war between the Trump administration and progressiveDemocratswho d...
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    SAVE Act would do more harm than good for election integrity
    Opinion, Сolumns
    SAVE Act would do more harm than good for election integrity
    Apr 24, 2025
    OnApril 10, theHouse of Representativespassed the badly misnamed Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or the SAVE Act, which is now headed for a ...
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    Alarm sounded against rising antisemitism
    Local News, Nation & World, News, ...
    Alarm sounded against rising antisemitism
    CHRISTINA LENGYEL The Center Square 
    Apr 24, 2025
    HARRISBURG— Eighty years after the last Jews were liberated from Nazi camps in Europe, Pennsylvania continues to honor the survivors and lives lost du...
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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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