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Letter to the editor | A tree grows in Lemont
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Letter to the editor | Congress has lost vision
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Letter to the editor | Here’s what we’re all about
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Letter to the editor | Enjoying the warmer weather
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Our View | Human spirit is a hard thing to break
Adam Hartswick lost his legs, but not his spirit.
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Their View | Not your grandfather’s Pennsylvania
When asked to describe Pennsylvania, Washington political consultant James Carville, who helped elect Pennsylvania Gov. Bob Casey and U.S. Sen. Harris Wofford, once declared that the state was “Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between.”
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Their View | Looking ahead to State High’s next 50 years
State College Area School District is planning a comprehensive update to our aging and failing high school buildings.
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OPINION
Inside the First Amendment | Fighting over a lost cause
School officials in Lake City, Ark., have come up with a novel solution to the fight over prayer at graduation: no prayer, no graduation.
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Our View | Church can forgive, police should not
The congregation members at Park Forest Baptist Church offered forgiveness to the individuals who spray-painted vulgar messages on their building and bus.
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OPINION
Joseph R. Kovel | Let’s put the priority back on public safety
It has been almost two decades since terrorists trained in Perry County to detonate a bomb at the World Trade Center in 1993. The bomb killed six people and injured more than 1,000.
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OPINION
Our View | Just do it: Vote
Experts are predicting an election turnout today of less than 20 percent of registered voters.
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OPINION
David Brooks | Power-hungry government workers losing peoples trust
Government, Clinton Rossiter once wrote, is something like fire: “Under control, it is the most useful of servants; out of control, it is a ravaging tyrant.”
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OPINION
Column | Effect on doctors will ease as new health law takes effect
Contrary to what you may have heard from its relentless critics, the Affordable Care Act will make more health care of higher quality available to more Americans than ever before.
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Column | Doctors are fleeing a system that doesn’t value their worth
Among President Obama’s broken promises, there is this gem of June 15, 2009: “... no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise: if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period.”
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YOUR LETTERS
Letter to the editor | Losing a piece of history in Bellefonte
The appalling lack of leadership by Bellefonte’s elected and appointed officials is evident once again in their allowing and — astoundingly, in the case of Borough Council President Frank Halderman — actively promoting the razing of the historic Garman Theatre.
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LEONARD PITTS JR.
Leonard Pitts Jr. | In Florida, timely injustice
At great political peril, George Ryan did the right thing.






