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    Counting on Social Security to fund your retirement? Think again
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Counting on Social Security to fund your retirement? Think again
    RACHEL GRESZLER 
    May 14, 2024
    WASHINGTON (TNS) — In just nine years, the oldest Gen-Xers will reach Social Security’s normal retirement age of 67. But they have a rude awakening wh...
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    A tax plan to pummel Americans
    Opinion, Сolumns
    A tax plan to pummel Americans
    Apr 29, 2024
    President Joe Biden’s 2025 budget blueprint won’t become law, but it provides a glimpse of what the nation can expect if he wins re-election and Democ...
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    Trump’s trial could be a cure for ‘Trump amnesia’
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Trump’s trial could be a cure for ‘Trump amnesia’
    DOYLE McMANUS Los Angeles Times 
    Apr 22, 2024
    WASHINGTON (TNS) — Before Donald Trump’s hush-money trial in New York got underway, pundits predicted that the proceedings could be a media bonanza fo...
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    How did McCormick dodge a primary this time around?
    Opinion, Сolumns
    How did McCormick dodge a primary this time around?
    BENJAMIN KAIL Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    Apr 22, 2024
    WASHINGTON (TNS) — On June 3, 2022, before a statewide recount in Pennsylvania’s Republican U.S. Senate primary was completed, former hedge fund CEO D...
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    Try being nostalgic — for the present
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Try being nostalgic — for the present
    AMANDA MONTELL Los Angeles Times 
    Apr 19, 2024
    LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Nostalgia seems harmless enough, and then someone starts earnestly — absurdly — glamorizing the Stone Age. “Damn can you imagine b...
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    Biden vows to shield US steel industry by blocking Japanese merger and seeking new Chinese tariffs
    Business, Nation & World, News
    Biden vows to shield US steel industry by blocking Japanese merger and seeking new Chinese tariffs
    Apr 18, 2024
    By CHRIS MEGERIAN and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — President Joe Biden suggested to cheering, unionized steelworkers on Wednesday ...
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    Bias at NPR and the reluctance to admit mistakes
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Bias at NPR and the reluctance to admit mistakes
    Apr 17, 2024
    Uri Berliner, a journalist of a certain age, has been feeling some heartburn over what has been transpiring at his longtime employer, National Public ...
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    Prosecutor calls for denial of Hvizdzak’s suppression motion
    Content, Crime, Daily Headlines, ...
    Prosecutor calls for denial of Hvizdzak’s suppression motion
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Apr 16, 2024
    Shane Hvizdzak’s claim that he didn’t know he could refuse to talk to law enforcement is “preposterous,” a federal prosecutor is arguing. In a federal...
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    College students are flocking to the Marriage Pact, mostly for fun, but some find lasting love
    Content, Daily Headlines, Nation & World, ...
    College students are flocking to the Marriage Pact, mostly for fun, but some find lasting love
    LEANNE ITALIE AP Lifestyles Writer 
    Apr 15, 2024
    NEW YORK (AP) — It’s the stuff of movies: Two friends vow to marry each other if they’re not hitched by a specified future date or age. Well, the Marr...
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    Bradford native Cole to receive Pitt-Bradford alumni award
    Local News, News
    Bradford native Cole to receive Pitt-Bradford alumni award
    Apr 11, 2024
    Marketing executive, entrepreneur and Bradford native Thomas Cole ’80-’82 will receive this year’s Alumni Award of Distinction from the University of ...
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    The boomer versus millennial grudge match is silly
    Opinion, Сolumns
    The boomer versus millennial grudge match is silly
    ROBIN ABCARIAN Los Angeles Times 
    Apr 10, 2024
    LOS ANGELES (TNS) — At a recent family dinner, various younger relatives were talking about music streaming services and began to wonder aloud whether...
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    McGill announces write-in candidacy for 25th Senate District
    Local News, News
    McGill announces write-in candidacy for 25th Senate District
    Apr 10, 2024
    William McGill, Clinton County, announced his write-in candidacy for the Democratic nomination for state senator in the General Assembly – 25th Distri...
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    Anonymous users dominating online discussions. They also spread false information
    Nation & World, News, Online Features
    Anonymous users dominating online discussions. They also spread false information
    ALI SWENSON and MELISSA GOLDIN Associated Press 
    Apr 09, 2024
    NEW YORK — The reposts and expressions of shock from public figures followed quickly after a user on the social platform X who uses a pseudonym claime...
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    College will cost up to $95,000 this fall. Schools say it’s OK, financial aid can numb sticker shock
    Nation & World, News
    College will cost up to $95,000 this fall. Schools say it’s OK, financial aid can numb sticker shock
    NICK PERRY Associated Press 
    Apr 08, 2024
    MEREDITH, N.H. — As more than 2 million graduating high school students from across the United States finalize their decisions on what college to atte...
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    No, voters aren’t imagining things on inflation
    Opinion, Сolumns
    No, voters aren’t imagining things on inflation
    Apr 01, 2024
    By most standard economic measures, President Joe Biden has presided over a strong economy. In terms of growth, job creation, wage gains and employmen...
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    Pa.’s conservative push for Latino voters
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Pa.’s conservative push for Latino voters
    ANTHONY HENNEN The Center Square 
    Mar 26, 2024
    HARRISBURG — As Pennsylvania’s Latino population grows, so too does its economic and political influence. It’s an open question as to where their vote...
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    The absurd four-day workweek
    Opinion, Сolumns
    The absurd four-day workweek
    RICH LOWRY 
    Mar 22, 2024
    Karl Marx would be proud. Bernie Sanders has proposed taking another step toward the philosopher’s envisioned utopia by proposing to mandate a four-da...
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    Who were Pa. state government’s highest earners in 2023?
    News, PA State News
    Who were Pa. state government’s highest earners in 2023?
    JAN MURPHY pennlive.com 
    Mar 21, 2024
    (TNS) — Pennsylvania’s top 10 highest state government earners (salary, plus other job-related income) in 2023 come from three different state agencie...
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    Businesses are ready for April’s total solar eclipse with celestial-themed doughnuts and beer
    Nation & World
    Businesses are ready for April’s total solar eclipse with celestial-themed doughnuts and beer
    WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS Associated Press 
    Mar 18, 2024
    NEW YORK (AP) — Eclipse-themed beer. Jewelry and ornaments. And doughnuts that capture the sun’s disappearing act with the help of buttercream frostin...
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    Pradhan announces candidacy
    Local News, News
    Pradhan announces candidacy
    Mar 16, 2024
    Hoping to be an advocate for positive change in McKean, Potter and Cameron counties, Rajeev Pradhan of Port Allegany has thrown his hat into the ring ...
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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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