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Opinion

EVERYONE does better when EVERYONE does better

June 21, 2025September 8, 2022

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News & Notes, August 2022

June 21, 2025August 29, 2022

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Categories News, Opinion

State legislatures

June 21, 2025August 29, 2022

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Categories Local, Opinion

Thinking about Liz Cheney and the Republican party

June 21, 2025August 29, 2022

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Categories Local, Opinion

Fetterman: Do You Believe Anything?

June 21, 2025August 29, 2022

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Categories Local, Opinion

Governor Mastriano’s Dismantled School System

June 21, 2025August 29, 2022

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Categories Education, Local, Opinion

The country is on fire. What can I do to reduce the heat?

June 21, 2025August 29, 2022

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Categories National, Opinion

Why Are the Republicans so Angry About Student Loan Relief?

June 21, 2025August 27, 2022

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Categories National, Opinion

Irony

June 21, 2025August 27, 2022

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Categories Environment, Opinion

LTE: Hide and seek

June 21, 2025August 25, 2022

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Categories Local, Opinion

Guns, schools and myths

June 21, 2025August 25, 2022

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Categories Education, Health, Opinion

Compromise, Trump-style

June 21, 2025August 24, 2022

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Categories National, Opinion

LTE: Supports reproductive choice

June 21, 2025August 24, 2022

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Categories Local, Opinion

LTE: Read between the lines

June 21, 2025August 19, 2022

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Categories National, Opinion

LTE: Claims political lies

June 21, 2025August 16, 2022

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Categories Local, Opinion

The Republican Lie That “They Didn’t Go After Clinton”

June 21, 2025August 16, 2022

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Categories National, Opinion

GOP Will Defend Trump No Matter What

June 21, 2025August 14, 2022

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Categories National, Opinion

LTE: Favors Qually

June 21, 2025August 11, 2022

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Categories Local, Opinion

Why Republicans are bad for the economy

June 21, 2025August 11, 2022

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Categories National, Opinion

The horror of a Republican presidency in 2025

June 21, 2025August 10, 2022

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Categories Local, Opinion

Senator Judy Ward: “Setting the Record Straight,” Republican Style

June 21, 2025August 10, 2022

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Categories National, Opinion

Is Biden the most effective president ever?

June 21, 2025August 10, 2022

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Categories Local, National, Opinion

Constitutional Amendment: The Most Cynical Power Grab Yet

June 21, 2025August 4, 2022

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Categories Local, National, Opinion

What happens to your politics when people slept through civics class?

June 21, 2025August 1, 2022

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Categories National, Opinion

Rooting Against the United States

June 21, 2025July 31, 2022

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Categories Local, Opinion

The meaning of freedom in America

June 21, 2025July 28, 2022

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Categories National, Opinion

News & Notes, July 2022

June 21, 2025July 27, 2022

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Categories News, Opinion

Now we might know why Pence wouldn’t get in the car

June 21, 2025July 20, 2022

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Categories National, Opinion

‘…no law respecting an establishment of religion’

June 21, 2025July 19, 2022

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Categories National, Opinion

The Twisted Hypocritical Illogic of the Republican Position on “Personal Liberty”

June 21, 2025July 19, 2022

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Categories Local, National, Opinion

LTE: Mastriano’s disastrous education policy

June 21, 2025July 18, 2022

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Categories Education, Opinion

Fetterman for Senate

June 21, 2025July 16, 2022

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Categories Local, Opinion

Marty Qually vs. Dan Moul

June 21, 2025July 15, 2022

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Categories Local, Opinion

Yeah, that used to be true (Part 3)

June 21, 2025July 15, 2022

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Categories News, Opinion

LTE: Disinformation is dangerous

June 21, 2025July 14, 2022

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Categories National, Opinion

Roe is on the November ballot

June 21, 2025July 14, 2022

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Categories Health, Local, Opinion

Mastriano’s Disastrous Education Policy

June 21, 2025July 12, 2022

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Categories Education, Opinion

“Declare a National Health Emergency” and Other Ridiculous Ideas

June 21, 2025July 12, 2022

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Categories Local, Opinion

Our changing US History (Part 2)

June 21, 2025July 12, 2022

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Categories National, Opinion

Green Gettysburg, July 1

June 21, 2025July 10, 2022

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Categories Environment, Opinion

PA Constitutional Amendments Moving Forward

June 21, 2025July 10, 2022

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Categories National, Opinion

Josh Shapiro will be a good governor

June 21, 2025July 9, 2022

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Categories Local, Opinion

LTE: Mastriano and guns

June 21, 2025July 8, 2022

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Categories News, Opinion

Senate 2022: Oz is Unfit

June 21, 2025July 7, 2022

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Categories Local, Opinion

Yeah, that used to be true (Part 1)

June 21, 2025July 7, 2022

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Categories National, Opinion

Biden has done a good job with judge nominations

June 21, 2025July 3, 2022

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Categories Local, National, Opinion

President Trump, insurrectionist

June 21, 2025July 2, 2022

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Categories National, Opinion

LTE: Qually Supports women

June 21, 2025July 2, 2022

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Categories News, Opinion

News & Notes, June 2022

June 21, 2025July 1, 2022

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LTE: Lauds Casey, Wolf

June 21, 2025June 29, 2022

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Categories News, Opinion

LTE: Pro-life solution

June 21, 2025June 29, 2022

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Categories News, Opinion

What we stand for: education

June 21, 2025June 28, 2022

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Categories Education, Opinion

My life with Roe

June 21, 2025June 26, 2022

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Categories Health, Opinion

Roe: The hammer falls

June 21, 2025June 26, 2022

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Categories National, Opinion

The courts: from worst to even worse yet

June 21, 2025June 24, 2022

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Categories National, Opinion

The Supreme Court Shreds the 1st and 14th Amendments

June 21, 2025June 23, 2022

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Categories Local, Opinion

Public education for the common good

June 21, 2025June 23, 2022

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Categories Education, Opinion

JFK, disinformation, and the death of expertise

June 21, 2025June 21, 2022

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Categories National, Opinion

LTE: Now even YOU know it’s a lie

June 21, 2025June 20, 2022

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Categories News, Opinion

January 6: Attacking the line of succession

June 21, 2025June 20, 2022

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Categories National, Opinion

January 6 Committee Erases All Doubt

June 21, 2025June 15, 2022

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Categories National, Opinion

The Gun IS the Problem

June 21, 2025June 13, 2022

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Categories News, Opinion

Freedom isn’t free

June 21, 2025June 9, 2022

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Categories National, Opinion

Some of Mastriano’s other views

June 21, 2025June 8, 2022

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Categories Local, Opinion

Mastriano Governs a Different Commonwealth

June 21, 2025June 5, 2022

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Categories National, Opinion

In memoriam: Louis J. Hammann

June 21, 2025June 5, 2022

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Categories News, Opinion

LTE: Only in America

June 21, 2025June 3, 2022

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Categories News, Opinion

LTE: Consider all causes

June 21, 2025June 1, 2022

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Categories News, Opinion

News & Notes, May 2022

June 21, 2025May 31, 2022

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Categories News, Opinion

LTE: A verruca on our body politics

June 21, 2025May 28, 2022

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Categories News, Opinion

Wanted: Education for citizenship

June 21, 2025May 26, 2022

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Categories National, Opinion

Peril in 2022

June 21, 2025May 18, 2022

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Categories Local, Opinion

Why many doctors are leaving private practice

June 21, 2025May 12, 2022

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Categories Health, Opinion

We Need to Worry About Mastriano’s Campaign

June 21, 2025May 6, 2022

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Categories Local, Opinion

Roe v Wade’s Days Are Numbered

June 21, 2025May 3, 2022

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Categories Local, Opinion

Censorship: The child of fear and the father of ignorance

June 21, 2025April 28, 2022

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Categories Education, Opinion

Ukraine and the slow-motion coup

June 21, 2025April 14, 2022

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Categories National, Opinion

LTE: Survivors of gun violence

June 21, 2025April 10, 2022

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Categories News, Opinion

LTE: Pleased with county

June 21, 2025March 26, 2022

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Categories National, Opinion

The slow-motion coup

June 21, 2025March 10, 2022

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Categories Local, National, Opinion

Vaccines for students

June 21, 2025February 24, 2022

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Categories Education, Opinion

Still on hold: lower drug prices legislation

June 21, 2025February 10, 2022

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Categories Health, Opinion

LTE: The Trojan Horse

June 21, 2025February 4, 2022

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Categories Education, Opinion

Democracy means voters choose the winners

June 21, 2025January 4, 2022

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Categories Local, National, Opinion

COVID-19: Why did the U.S. fail so badly?

June 21, 2025December 9, 2021

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Categories Health, Opinion

Repeal the law of supply and demand!

June 21, 2025December 7, 2021

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Categories News, Opinion

Public participation: As American as apple pie

June 21, 2025November 24, 2021

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Categories National, Opinion

A textbook example of hypocrisy

June 21, 2025November 16, 2021

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Categories National, Opinion

What Biden’s companion bills can do for the American people

June 21, 2025November 11, 2021

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Categories Education, Environment, National, Opinion

Democracy under attack

June 21, 2025November 1, 2021

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Categories National, Opinion

News & Notes, October 2021

June 21, 2025October 30, 2021

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Categories News, Opinion

Transparency needed in our schools

June 21, 2025October 28, 2021

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Categories Education, Opinion

Statement to school board on curriculum

June 21, 2025October 24, 2021

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Categories Education, Opinion

Infrastructure: not just roads and bridges

June 21, 2025October 19, 2021

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Categories National, Opinion

Let’s work together to protect our democracy

June 21, 2025October 14, 2021

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Categories National, Opinion

Rethinking the filibuster

June 21, 2025September 23, 2021

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Categories National, Opinion

News & Notes, September 2021

June 21, 2025September 22, 2021

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Categories News, Opinion

Criticism unfair

June 21, 2025September 14, 2021

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Categories National, Opinion

We may actually agree about drug pricing

June 21, 2025September 9, 2021

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