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    Addressing Pa.’s nursing shortage to support rural health care
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Addressing Pa.’s nursing shortage to support rural health care
    DR. EDMUND SABANEGH 
    Mar 19, 2025
    The Guthrie Clinic has proudly provided access to high-quality care throughout rural Pennsylvania and New York. As president and CEO of this system, I...
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    Other Voices: The home care crisis
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Other Voices: The home care crisis
    Mar 18, 2025
    Every day, more than 400,000 of our fellow Pennsylvanians — our elderly parents, disabled children and chronically ill friends — struggle to find the ...
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    Social Security Matters: Can paying Medicare premium be avoided?
    Business, Local News, News
    Social Security Matters: Can paying Medicare premium be avoided?
    RUSSELL GLOOR 
    Mar 14, 2025
    DEAR RUSTY: Is there any way I can get out of paying the $185/month I am told will be taken out of my Social Security for Medicare Part B when I turn ...
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    Dickinson Center welcomes new psychiatrist
    Business, Local News, News
    Dickinson Center welcomes new psychiatrist
    Mar 14, 2025
    RIDGWAY — Dickinson Center Inc. (DCI), an affiliate of Journey Health System (JHS), welcomed Dr. Vikram Panwar to their team of psychiatric care provi...
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    McKean Co. awarded $3 million to establish Emergency Behavioral Health Crisis Walk-In Center
    Local News, News
    McKean Co. awarded $3 million to establish Emergency Behavioral Health Crisis Walk-In Center
    Mar 12, 2025
    SMETHPORT — Commissioners announced McKean County is one of five recipients statewide to receive a $3 million grant to establish an Emergency Behavior...
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    Selective concern for workers
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Selective concern for workers
    Mar 07, 2025
    Many Democrats seem aghast at the notion that a government job is anything less than a lifetime sinecure and property right. Witness their near univer...
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    Bill would improve service to homeless veterans
    Nation & World, News, PA State News
    Bill would improve service to homeless veterans
    Mar 07, 2025
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Reps. Glenn "GT" Thompson, R-Pa., Don Davis NC-01, Rob Bresnahan, R-Pa., and Jimmy Panetta, R-Calif., introduced the Simplifyi...
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    Proposed Pa. budget would put portion of $5 million in maternal health funding toward postpartum depression screening
    Local News, News, PA State News
    Proposed Pa. budget would put portion of $5 million in maternal health funding toward postpartum depression screening
    HANNA WEBSTER Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    Mar 07, 2025
    PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Jessica Tucker, a 38-year-old mother living in Brookline, started feeling depressed when she was 20 weeks pregnant. Tucker spoke to...
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    Vital SNAP benefits face several threats
    Local News, News, PA State News
    Vital SNAP benefits face several threats
    CHRISTINA LENGYEL The Center Square 
    Mar 06, 2025
    HARRISBURG — Over 2 million Pennsylvanians receive funds from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. Monthly, this brings abo...
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    House wary of unavoidable, unpredictable Medicaid costs
    Local News, News, PA State News
    House wary of unavoidable, unpredictable Medicaid costs
    CHRISTINA LENGYEL The Center Square 
    Mar 05, 2025
    HARRISBURG — In over five hours of questioning, House lawmakers drilled down on a vast array of issues under the purview of Pennsylvania's largest - a...
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    UPMC isn’t budging on Coudy maternity care closure, officials say
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    UPMC isn’t budging on Coudy maternity care closure, officials say
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Feb 28, 2025
    UPMC isn't going to budge on its decision to shut down labor and delivery care at UPMC Cole. That was the result of a recent meeting jam-packed with c...
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    House talks Aging on a shoestring
    Local News, News, PA State News
    House talks Aging on a shoestring
    CHRISTINA LENGYEL The Center Square 
    Feb 28, 2025
    HARRISBURG — The Department of Aging has received flat funding for the past six years. Before the House Appropriations Committee, Secretary Jason Kavu...
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    CASA seeking volunteers
    Local News, News
    CASA seeking volunteers
    Feb 26, 2025
    SMETHPORT — Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of McKean County is seeking community members willing to advocate for abused and neglected childr...
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    PA Chamber proposes childcare reforms to boost workforce, economy
    Business, Local News, News, ...
    PA Chamber proposes childcare reforms to boost workforce, economy
    Feb 24, 2025
    HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry released a set of public policy recommendations to help address the state’s childcare a...
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    Maternal and rural health, marijuana major priorities for healthcare hearing
    Local News, News, PA State News
    Maternal and rural health, marijuana major priorities for healthcare hearing
    CHRISTINA LENGYEL The Center Square 
    Feb 20, 2025
    HARRISBURG — "We all just need a little break. It’s been a tough hearing,” said Department of Health Secretary Dr. Debra Bogen toward the end of her t...
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    Eviction record reform could help housing crisis
    Local News, News, PA State News
    Eviction record reform could help housing crisis
    CHRISTINA LENGYEL The Center Square 
    Feb 18, 2025
    HARRISBURG - As the housing crisis continues in Pennsylvania and homelessness continues to rise, policymakers are considering strategies to reduce bar...
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    CROWNS Safety Training Series to be held at Dickinson
    Business, Local News, News
    CROWNS Safety Training Series to be held at Dickinson
    Feb 12, 2025
    RIDGWAY — A comprehensive CROWNS Safety Training series designed specifically for individuals with intellectual disabilities (IDD) will be presented a...
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    How Trump’s health care disruption could pay off
    Opinion, Сolumns
    How Trump’s health care disruption could pay off
    ERIC REINHART Los Angeles Times 
    Jan 31, 2025
    CHICAGO (TNS) — President Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reflects anger and frustration at the wanton greed underlying America’s h...
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    Report: Post-pandemic child care costs continue to rise
    Local News, News, PA State News
    Report: Post-pandemic child care costs continue to rise
    CHRISTINA LENGYEL The Center Square 
    Jan 28, 2025
    HARRISBURG — Nearly five years after the COVID-19 pandemic depressed daycare availability, costs and labor participation are on the rise. This, accord...
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    Unemployment benefits floated for school workers
    Business, Local News, News, ...
    Unemployment benefits floated for school workers
    CHRISTINA LENGYEL The Center Square 
    Jan 27, 2025
    HARRISBURG — Before students make it to their classroom doors, they are assisted by a host of workers who create the conditions required for education...
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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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