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Battered Democrats hope to regain their focus
Opinion, Сolumns
CARL P. LEUBSDORF The Dallas Morning News 
Feb 20, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Like everyone else in Washington, Democratic Party leaders have been stunned by the speed and the breadth of President Donald Trump...
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Guest Comment: Stand up for democracy
Opinion, Сolumns
DAVID FITZ Special to The Era 
Feb 17, 2025
An authoritarian coup is happening in the United States. And “we the people” are the only ones who can stop it. We must preserve and restore our democ...
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Money for their old schools
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 12, 2025
All universities send emails and letters to their alumni in the hopes of securing donations for future students. Members of the House of Representativ...
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Gov. Shapiro staked a claim to the political center
Opinion, Сolumns
MIKE WERESCHAGIN Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
Feb 07, 2025
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Just months after voters delivered a devastating rebuke to his party in November, and asDemocratsaround the country are searching f...
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Is Trump pushing powers beyond the Constitution?
Opinion, Сolumns
DAVID G. SAVAGE Los Angeles Times 
Jan 29, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — President Trump has begun his second term pressing his power to reshape the government by firing federal officials, ending diversit...
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Presidents and their pardons
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 22, 2025
Maybe you’re mad about President Joe Biden’s parting gift of a preemptive pardons for Dr. Anthony Fauci and members of the Biden family. If not, you’r...
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For Pa. GOP, engagement with Hispanics a priority
Opinion, Сolumns
ALBERT EISENBERG RealClearPennsylvania 
Jan 21, 2025
Hispanic voters in Pennsylvania were not just consequential but decisive in 2024, shifting by double digits toward Republicans and showing up at highe...
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Evenly divided House sets tone of bipartisanship
News, PA State News
CHRISTINA LENGYEL The Center Square 
Jan 09, 2025
HARRISBURG — One member down, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives struck an, at times, somber yet congenial bipartisan tone as they opened the 2...
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A look ahead to what might happen in 2025
Opinion, Сolumns
CARL P. LEUBSDORF The Dallas Morning News 
Dec 27, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — My prediction that President Joe Biden would drop out was a rare bright spot among last year’s not totally serious predictions. Und...
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Biden vetoes JUDGES Act
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 26, 2024
There’s precious little agreement between congressionalRepublicansandDemocratsthese days. So it’s unusual that the president this week vetoed a bill t...
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