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No need to bring stickers back
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 26, 2021
Four years after the Legislature eliminated registration stickers that vehicle owners used to have to affix to their license plates, someone who misse...
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Will Pa. gas tax really die?
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 18, 2021
Taxes are one of those things that seem as permanent as a scar, indelible as a tattoo. It is one of the reasons we bristle when one is proposed. We ha...
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Smethport School Board faces budget deficit
Local News
FRAN DE LANCEY delancey401@yahoo.com 
Mar 18, 2021
SMETHPORT — Faced with a preliminary 2021-22 budget that shows a deficit of more than $600,000 fueled by many unanticipated expenditures from the COVI...
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Stacking unfathomable debt
Opinion, Сolumns
DONALD LAMBRO 
Mar 02, 2021
WASHINGTON — If you have high blood pressure, do not read this “Budget and Economic Outlook” from the Congressional Budget Office. The CBO regularly p...
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Safe bridges have a price
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 25, 2021
PennDOT’s unfolding plan to impose tolls on some bridges — including several on interstate highways in Pennsylvania — undoubtedly will cause consterna...
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Gambling’s good pandemic odds
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 26, 2021
Fewer people gambled in casinos in Pennsylvania in 2020. Is anyone surprised? The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board recently issued a report that deta...
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Bradford water rates to increase in 2021
Local News
RUTH BOGDAN r.bogdan@bradfordera.com 
Dec 24, 2020
Customers of the Bradford City Water Authority will see a rate increase next year. On Wednesday, the authority approved a 2021 budget with an increase...
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No tax increase in McKean Co. budget
Local News
FRAN DE LANCEY frdelancey@gmail.com 
Dec 23, 2020
SMETHPORT — The McKean County Commissioners’ Christmas gift to county taxpayers: the 2021 budget does not increase taxes. At their final meeting for 2...
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Maintaining our Pa. highways
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 01, 2020
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has requested emergency aid from the state Legislature to the tune of $600 million, citing depressed rev...
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Nonprofits and the pandemic
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 21, 2020
The pandemic has devastated many businesses, both large and small. At the same time, there is another sector of our economy that is crucial to our qua...
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Pa. on brink of budget cliff
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 22, 2020
Pennsylvania is staring at a fiscal cliff. It’s easy but perilous to ignore state budget minutiae amid a contentious presidential election. Right now ...
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Libraries seeking advocates
Local News
JOELLEN WANKEL jwankel@bradfordera.com 
Sep 22, 2020
Virtual PA Library Advocacy Day was Monday. Facing the potential of huge cuts in state funding, local libraries need patrons to go to bat on their beh...
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Gustafson to be arraigned Aug. 25 on IRS charges
Bradford, Crime, Local News, ...
Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
Aug 13, 2020
Smethport man Brian Gustafson is scheduled to be arraigned on three federal tax-related charges on Aug. 25 via videoconference. Gustafson, 48, is char...
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