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    Covid loans for 11-year-olds
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Covid loans for 11-year-olds
    Jul 03, 2025
    A weekly allowance or a lemonade stand are great ways to teach young kids how to manage their money. A loan from the Small Business Administration is ...
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    America’s broken politics is breaking economics, too
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    America’s broken politics is breaking economics, too
    By ALLISON SCHRAGER Bloomberg Opinion 
    Jul 03, 2025
    NEW YORK (TNS) — The political realignment has come for economics. At least since the days of Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes in the last cent...
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    The Gen Z vote in Pennsylvania
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    The Gen Z vote in Pennsylvania
    By MATT ZUPON RealClearPennsylvania 
    Jul 03, 2025
    Presidential elections present voters with a mix of triumphs, scandals and defining moments. The 2024 election was no exception. From Donald Trump’s n...
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    Can’t we all just be proud Americans?
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Can’t we all just be proud Americans?
    By ROD BISHOP RealClearPolitics 
    Jul 02, 2025
    As a military aviator and veteran of more contingencies than I care to remember, I watched with bated breath and prayers in my heart on the evening of...
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    There’s a ‘double-edged sword’ in your stomach
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    There’s a ‘double-edged sword’ in your stomach
    By F.D. FLAM Bloomberg Opinion 
    Jul 02, 2025
    NEW YORK (TNS) — It’s not always obvious which of the multitude of species of bacteria riding around in us should be classified as germs and attacked,...
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    Immigration’s big cost to states
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Immigration’s big cost to states
    Jul 01, 2025
    State and local governments spent an estimated $770 million in 2023 to incarcerate immigrants who had been in the country for less than three years, a...
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    Bombs now or nukes later: The new moral dilemma
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Bombs now or nukes later: The new moral dilemma
    By FRANK MIELE RealClearPolitics 
    Jul 01, 2025
    Every Philosophy 101 student knows the dilemma. If given the chance to kill Adolf Hitler years before his tyrannical ambitions unleashed death and des...
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    Guest Comment: To claim our independence again
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Guest Comment: To claim our independence again
    By DAVID E. FITZ 
    Jul 01, 2025
    My recent visit to the civic religious shrines and historical museums in Philadelphia highlights the threat executive power poses to democracy. In 177...
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    Social Security, Medicare clocks tick
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Social Security, Medicare clocks tick
    Jun 30, 2025
    As President Donald Trump and Congress fumble through his One Big Beautiful Bill on the budget for fiscal year 2025-26, they have been ignoring the ma...
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    No one can grasp trillions: Making sense of federal spending
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    No one can grasp trillions: Making sense of federal spending
    By IVO WELCH Los Angeles Times 
    Jun 30, 2025
    LOS ANGELES (TNS) — I’m a finance professor at UCLA, so let’s talk finance. Which numbers are more meaningful to you? Having $50 to $100 cash in your ...
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    Draining the swamp, Pa.-style
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Draining the swamp, Pa.-style
    By ATHAN KOUTSIOUROUMBAS RealClearPennsylvania 
    Jun 30, 2025
    It’s rare these days to find a proposal out of Washington that checks every box: common sense, bipartisan and pro-worker. That is exactly what Pennsyl...
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    Political violence must be stopped
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Political violence must be stopped
    Jun 27, 2025
    In Minnesota, a deranged gunman broke into a legislator’s house and shot her and her husband, killing both of them. He also killed their dog. The alle...
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    Calif. fueled immigration advocacy
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Calif. fueled immigration advocacy
    Jun 27, 2025
    Los Angeles has dominated the news cycle as residents protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s efforts to deport illegal immigrants, but the...
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    We need more teachers in Pa.
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    We need more teachers in Pa.
    By RYAN UNGER RealClearPennsylvania 
    Jun 27, 2025
    I have Thanksgiving dinner every year with only teachers. My mother, father, sister, brother-in-law, aunt, cousin and my grandmother, along with all m...
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    Where is Shapiro’s leadership on state budget?
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Where is Shapiro’s leadership on state budget?
    By STEPHEN BLOOM and MEGHAN MARTIN RealClearPennsylvania 
    Jun 27, 2025
    Gov. Josh Shapiro once said, “Leaders have a responsibility to speak truth.” Yet, truth be told, the governor’s lack of leadership on this year’s stat...
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    Tough love’s dividends in Europe
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Tough love’s dividends in Europe
    Jun 26, 2025
    Critics have lambasted President Donald Trump’s tough-love approach to Europe, but the president secured a major victory this week when NATO members a...
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    U.S. sovereignty over corporate profits every time
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    U.S. sovereignty over corporate profits every time
    By NICHOLAS L. WADDY 
    Jun 26, 2025
    Republicans, conservatives and Trumpers were horrified to learn earlier this month — in the wake of the pro-illegal immigration L.A. riots, no less — ...
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    State officials shouldn’t get goodies from giving out our money
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    State officials shouldn’t get goodies from giving out our money
    By DAVID MILLS Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    Jun 26, 2025
    PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The question is: Why should public monies given to private enterprises for public purposes include goodies for public officials? Is...
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    Tehran has only bad options
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Tehran has only bad options
    By CHUCK FREILICH and COLIN P. CLARKE Los Angeles Times 
    Jun 25, 2025
    NEW YORK (TNS) — Following the U.S. attack on Iran’s primary nuclear facilities at Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan, Tehran faces nothing but bad options. Mi...
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    Pa. can lead on term limits
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Pa. can lead on term limits
    By ANDY DINNIMAN and JOHN EICHELBERGER 
    Jun 25, 2025
    Washington has failed the American people. Career politicians in Congress continue to entrench themselves in power, prioritize partisan gamesmanship o...
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    Cattaraugus County Museum to host quilting talk
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    Cattaraugus County Museum to host quilting talk
    July 5, 2025
    MACHIAS, N.Y. — The Cattaraugus County Museum’s Summer at the Stone House series continues Thursday with a presentation by noted quilt appraiser and e...
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    Greenhouse, hydroponic production webinar
    Local News
    Greenhouse, hydroponic production webinar
    July 5, 2025
    UNIVERSITY PARK  — For those interested in learning more about greenhouse fundamentals and hydroponic vegetable production basics, Penn State Extensio...
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    Harvest new ideas at ‘Starting and Improving Farms Conference’ in Sept.
    Business, Local News, PA State News
    Harvest new ideas at ‘Starting and Improving Farms Conference’ in Sept.
    July 5, 2025
    UNIVERSITY PARK — Interested in starting a farm, diversifying an existing farm or beginning an agritourism business? To help participants explore new ...
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    Dubas puts emphasis on individual development for Penguins’ 1st round ‘triplets’
    Local Sports, Sports
    Dubas puts emphasis on individual development for Penguins’ 1st round ‘triplets’
    TIM BENZ The Tribune-Review, Greensburg/TNS 
    July 5, 2025
    The last time the Pittsburgh Penguins drafted three players in the first round, it was 1984. Two of those players were Doug Bodger and Roger Belanger....
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    Why elite talent trumps scheme fit in the NFL Draft
    Sports
    Why elite talent trumps scheme fit in the NFL Draft
    By Cleveland.com 
    July 5, 2025
    CLEVELAND (TNS) — The eternal NFL Draft debate continues to rage: Should teams prioritize raw talent or scheme fit? In a recent episode of Orange and ...
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    ‘Round the Square: Got worms?
    Round the Square
    ‘Round the Square: Got worms?
    July 5, 2025
    MEDICINE: Medical advancements are miraculous. Innovations as simple as cleanliness have saved countless lives. Just imagine what the state of healthc...
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