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We dodged a bullet on student loans
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 09, 2023
The federal government has the power to forgive federal student loan debt. What was at issue in the two cases the United States Supreme Court recently...
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Pa. makes failure budgetary norm
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 07, 2023
Pennsylvania is one of 43 states that began its fiscal year July 1, and is among six that have missed that deadline. Ohio, Oregon, Minnesota, Massachu...
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Pouring ice water on Biden parade
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 02, 2023
How fitting that the Congressional Budget Office released its long-term fiscal projections Wednesday, the same day that President Joe Biden began his ...
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Pa. to begin new fiscal year without budget plan in place
Daily Headlines, News, PA State News
MARC LEVY Associated Press 
Jun 30, 2023
HARRISBURG — Republicans who control Pennsylvania’s Senate passed spending legislation hours ahead of Saturday’s start of a new fiscal year, but they ...
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IRA will add to the deficit
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 29, 2023
Massive government spending programs typically cost more than projected. At some point, one might even call it a pattern. The latest example is the il...
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Pa. must ease tax burden
Daily Headlines, Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 20, 2023
With the June 30 end of the fiscal year looming, legislators must craft the new state budget’s education piece in light of a Commonwealth Court decisi...
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Med debt enough to make you sick
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 19, 2023
The United States is the only advanced nation that allows its sick citizens to be saddled with ruinous medical debt. According to the nonpartisan Kais...
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Pa. bill to help combat blight
Opinion, Сolumns
Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
Jun 16, 2023
If efforts of municipalities across Pennsylvania to diminish blight in their neighborhoods were a video, it would be an endless loop replaying the sam...
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Taxpayers caddy for the PGA
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 14, 2023
One of the many questions that arose from the stunning merger of the PGA Tour and LIV Golf, an enterprise of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, is ...
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School property taxes fund cyber charter excess
Daily Headlines, Opinion, Сolumns
SUSAN SPICKA 
Jun 13, 2023
More than $3.4 million spent on advertising over a 3-month period. Over $75,000 spent on tickets, parking, and concessions for Major League baseball g...
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Biden’s plan to tax money that isn’t money
Opinion, Сolumns
JAY AMBROSE 
Jun 12, 2023
President Joe Biden, eager to get more tax money to pay for the faults of others along with his own disastrously irresponsible, inflationary overspend...
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