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    Home Opinion

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    Delve deeper into benefits of BBB
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Delve deeper into benefits of BBB
    Aug 01, 2025
    History predicts that Republicans will suffer losses in next year’s midterm elections, and Democrats have made clear they will try to use President Do...
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    High spending at Texas border
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    High spending at Texas border
    Aug 01, 2025
    Migrant encounters at the Texas border are at historic lows not seen since the 1960s, but the state still plans to give its its Operation Lone Star $1...
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    Buildsylvania: Pa.’s AI-driven construction boom
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Buildsylvania: Pa.’s AI-driven construction boom
    By ATHAN KOUTSIOUROUMBUS RealClearPennsylvania 
    Aug 01, 2025
    Welcome to Buildsylvania! Pennsylvania is poised to experience its biggest construction boom since the height of the Industrial Revolution. The unprec...
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    Use the Russian sanctions bill
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Use the Russian sanctions bill
    Jul 31, 2025
    President Donald Trump’s tariff negotiations have been largely successful. Not so for his efforts to end the Ukraine war. Trump has expressed increasi...
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    Pa. faces a crisis of accepting mediocrity
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Pa. faces a crisis of accepting mediocrity
    By GUY CIARROCCHI RealClearPennsylvania 
    Jul 31, 2025
    According to rankings released by U.S. News, Pennsylvania is the 41st “best state,” positioning itself at 39th in education and 38th in its overall ec...
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    2nd Amendment protects ammo, too
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    2nd Amendment protects ammo, too
    Jul 30, 2025
    On a July 14 podcast with former U.S. Navy SEAL and CIA contractor Shawn Ryan, California Gov. Gavin Newsom — widely considered a top Democratic candi...
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    How to pack for a trip
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    How to pack for a trip
    By JERRY ZEZIMA Tribune News Service 
    Jul 30, 2025
    I’m a guy who likes to travel the world. Unfortunately, I can do so only if I sit in front of the TV and watch celebrities like Stanley Tucci eat and ...
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    Pa.’s AG right about counterfeit meds
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Pa.’s AG right about counterfeit meds
    By ELIZABETH HICKS RealClearPennsylvania 
    Jul 30, 2025
    If you have scrolled through Instagram or TikTok lately, you have probably seen slick telehealth ads promising doctor-prescribed weight-loss shots, su...
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    Mastriano can’t win in 2026 either
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Mastriano can’t win in 2026 either
    By CHRISTOPHER NICHOLAS RealClearPennsylvania 
    Jul 30, 2025
    It’s now the summer of our discontent here in Pennsylvania, as the GOP’s 2022 gubernatorial nominee, state Sen. Doug Mastriano, continues to make nois...
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    US can survive tariffs, but that doesn’t mean they’re worth it
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    US can survive tariffs, but that doesn’t mean they’re worth it
    By CLIVE CROOK Bloomberg Opinion 
    Jul 29, 2025
    NEW YORK (TNS) — On hearing of the Continental Army’s pivotal victory at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777, John Sinclair told Adam Smith, “The British n...
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    America’s pricey birthday parties
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    America’s pricey birthday parties
    Jul 29, 2025
    America will turn 250 years old next year, and taxpayers will fund one of the most expensive birthday gifts in history. President Trump’s “One Big Bea...
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    The other fentanyl threat requires readiness
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    The other fentanyl threat requires readiness
    By BRAD WENSTRUP RealClearPolitics 
    Jul 29, 2025
    It’s the nightmare scenario few in Washington want to talk about — and even fewer are prepared to confront — and that is the use of illicit fentanyl a...
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    More rescissions headed to Congress?
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    More rescissions headed to Congress?
    Jul 28, 2025
    The Trump administration promised that the $9 billion rescission package Congress passed this month on spending for foreign aid and government broadca...
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    ‘Low-value’ Medicare treatments
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    ‘Low-value’ Medicare treatments
    Jul 28, 2025
    An estimated 37% of Medicare patients received a “low-value” health care service in 2023, costing the federal government $5.9 billion. The numbers com...
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    Why Jeffrey Epstein matters
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Why Jeffrey Epstein matters
    By BRANDON McGINLEY 
    Jul 28, 2025
    PITTSBURGH (TNS) — On a Parisian street corner in the 1780s, you'd be approached by a pamphleteer stoking the political rage that would culminate in t...
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    Can a Pa. Democrat replicate Mamdani’s success?
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Can a Pa. Democrat replicate Mamdani’s success?
    By MARK NICASTRE RealClearPennsylvania 
    Jul 28, 2025
    Everyone is still trying to figure out what to make of Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City’s mayoral primary. Mamdani emerged from a field of ca...
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    Making art great at taxpayer expense
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Making art great at taxpayer expense
    Jul 25, 2025
    Erin Elmore, director of the State Department’s “Art in Embassies” program, has vowed to “Make Art Great Again,” and taxpayers will be footing the bil...
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    Still assessing strikes on Iran
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Still assessing strikes on Iran
    Jul 25, 2025
    In the wake of the U.S. airstrikes against Iran last month, President Donald Trump called the operation a “spectacular military success” that “complet...
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    America’s truckers need a place to park — before it’s too late
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    America’s truckers need a place to park — before it’s too late
    By CHRIS SPEAR Chicago Tribune 
    Jul 25, 2025
    CHICAGO (TNS) — Every day, more than 3.5 million professional truck drivers keep America’s economy on the move. They haul more than 73% of the nation’...
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    Does AI make education too easy?
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Does AI make education too easy?
    By JOYCE M. DAVIS PennLive 
    Jul 25, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — Who needs an education if you have AI? That’s the question many young students are asking themselves as they stand at the precipice...
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    Pirates’ trade deadline defined by rigid thinking and poor processes. What else is new?
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    Pirates’ trade deadline defined by rigid thinking and poor processes. What else is new?
    JASON MACKEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    August 1, 2025
    (TNS) — Four years ago, the Pirates eschewed a traditional draft strategy and instead took Henry Davis No. 1 overall, using the savings to sign other ...
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    PA defense synced and ready for Saturday
    Football, Local Sports
    PA defense synced and ready for Saturday
    Jo Wankel 
    August 1, 2025
    Pennsylvania’s defensive unit is ready for Saturday, relying on speed and aggressiveness to achieve its goals. The Defensive Line consists of Landon F...
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    Bold strokes for a big milestone
    Local News
    Bold strokes for a big milestone
    August 1, 2025
    Local artists Rick Minard and, not pictured, Greg Souchik, work on the patriotic Union Square mural celebrating America’s impending 250th anniversary....
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    Social Security Matters: Why hasn’t benefit changed because I’m still working?
    Business, Local News, News
    Social Security Matters: Why hasn’t benefit changed because I’m still working?
    By RUSSELL GLOOR 
    August 1, 2025
    DEAR RUSTY: I am receiving Social Security benefits while continuing to work full time. There are no restrictions on my wage earnings because I waited...
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    Small town, big impact
    Local News
    Small town, big impact
    Screw Cancer Festival returns today 
    By SAVANNAH BARR s.barr@bradfordera.com 
    August 1, 2025
    KANE – For the third year in a row, Flickerwood Wine Cellars will be filled with music, laughter and a community united for a good cause during the Sc...
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    Is Coke with cane sugar really better for you?
    Nation & World
    Is Coke with cane sugar really better for you?
    By SONO MOTOYAMA  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    August 1, 2025
    PITTSBURGH (TNS) — President Donald Trump announced in July that Coca-Cola would switch to cane sugar for its U.S. sodas. This followed criticism of t...
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