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Our View | Good news in the local listings
Home sales are up across Centre County, which is good news for real estate agents and for our local economy.
Opinion
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OPINION
Hypocrisy of the right’s righteousness
Say what you will about Bristol Palin, she’s a quick study. It didn’t take her long to master the ways of her elders on the censorious right and decide that personal circumstance and past error needn’t prevent someone from claiming righteous leadership. Uncle Rush must be proud...
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YOUR LETTERS
Letter to the Editor | Oak Hall park plan set for a vote
A June 29, 2010, CDT story titled “COG advances parks plans but price tag still uncertain” describes how three regional parks moved one step closer to construction without a set price tag.
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OPINION
Maurice Sendak and the wildest things of all
Maurice Sendak’s death was announced May 8 just a few minutes before I was due at the residential foster home and school where I volunteer, teaching writing to abused teenagers.
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OPINION
Editorial | Budget does no favors for mothers
The following editorial appeared Monday in the Philadelphia Daily News.
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OPINION
Paul Krugman | Why banks need regulation
One of the characters in the classic 1939 film “Stagecoach” is a banker named Gatewood who lectures his captive audience on the evils of big government, especially bank regulation “As if we bankers don’t know how to run our own banks!” he exclaims.
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OPINION
Campaign ads cross line into lies
The television commercial is designed to spark outrage. “Billions of taxpayer dollars spent on green energy went to jobs in foreign countries,” it intones. “The Obama administration admitted the truth that $2.3 billion of tax credits went overseas, while millions of Americans...
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OPINION
David Brooks: Structural problems must be addressed if economy is to bounce back
The country is divided when different people take different sides in a debate. The country is really divided when different people are having entirely different debates. That’s what’s happening on economic policy.
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OPINION
‘Bad food’ taxes would help clog our economic arteries
Proponents of an American nanny state have a plan to improve your health: tax sugar and “junk” food so you will eat less of it. Subsidies for broccoli and beets are close behind. These plans for bureaucrats and politicians to remake your diet are bad news for four reasons.
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OPINION
Tax on junk food can help pay the costs of diet-related diseases
America’s industrial food and farming system dominated by fast-food restaurants and processed, chemical-laden food has precipitated a public health crisis.
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