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Notify data breach victims
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 21, 2024
The question of whether hackers can access the personal data of Pennsylvanians through state agencies isn't theoretical because the government doesn't...
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Last column  (maybe) about Trump from me
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Jan 03, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Last year, as congressional elections approached, pundits offered a bold prediction: November would bring a “red wave,” a Republica...
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Law supports pregnant workers
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 29, 2022
Ever since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade this year, eliminating what had been a constitutional right to abortion, most of the national conv...
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Heartless towards the heroes
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 27, 2022
Like the Afghan Adjustment Act that we lament, the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act also fell out of the Senate’s $1.7 trilli...
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Philly DA says his impeachment should be dropped
News, PA State News
CHRIS PALMER - The Philadelphia Inquirer 
Dec 22, 2022
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner says the charges on which he is to be tried before the Pennsylvania Senate next mont...
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Toomey steady amid GOP hurricane
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 20, 2022
Pat Toomey joined the Senate in 2011 as a conservative but soon will depart as a moderate, despite remaining entirely consistent throughout his two te...
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Hawley more and more like a VP candidate in waiting
Opinion, Сolumns
LYNN SCHMIDT Tribune News Service 
Dec 08, 2022
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (TNS) — Put aside all the funny memes of Sen. Josh Hawley running. Could it be that the soon-to-be senior senator from Missouri is vyin...
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Some must-dos for Congress
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 17, 2022
Democrats will control the Senate and, it seems, Republicans, the House in the 118th Congress starting on Jan. 3, but the current 117th session still ...
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Donald Trump cares about only one thing
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Nov 11, 2022
If Republicans haven’t noticed it already, their underperformance in the midterms offers yet another opportunity to realize what matters most to Donal...
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Midterms, Biden’s agenda and the filibuster
Opinion, Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Nov 02, 2022
On March 2, 2021, when he had been president less than two months, Joe Biden met with a group of liberal historians in the White House East Room. The ...
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Redistricting’s high legal bills
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 18, 2022
Redistricting is not just something that happens every 10 years. It is more than just the way that we shuffle the decks of legislators and change the ...
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Dems’ filibuster scheme
Opinion, Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Sep 14, 2022
Vice President Kamala Harris appeared in a pre-taped interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” last weekend. As is often the case with her interviews, Harri...
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