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Bad medicine in Congress

Doing their best Charlie McCarthy imitations, about 35 members of Congress dutifully have submitted to the will of their own Edgar Bergen - the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche. The New York Times this week detailed statements entered in the Congressiona

'Credit swaps' too risky for governments

Very few local government officials are financial experts, but they must make financial decisions involving millions of dollars. State law generally has restricted the types of investments that local governments may make in order to help mitigate risk. B

 

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Blakely woman kept WWII soldiers connected to home

"We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbor." G.K. Chesterton, 1874-1936 They were just boys, young, hungry souls who would not be afforded the luxury of becoming men in their own time. Most had never traveled more

 
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Melting pot always has room for native stew

We are very fortunate in the Lackawanna Valley to have a wide variety of ethnic and cultural diversity. Growing up as an industrial engine for America, our region saw waves of immigration ranging from the early English settlers from Pennsylvania and Con

 
Capitol Matters

Ethics code proposal targets campaign work

HARRISBURG - Just days ahead of the second major round of criminal indictments in the probe of illegal activities in the Pennsylvania Legislature, Senate leaders introduced a new code of ethics that seeks to keep their employees from doing political work

 
Roderick Random

One Carney foe; Gov neutral

They are starting to emerge. The names of Republican candidates who might take a shot at knocking off Democratic U.S. Rep. Chris Carney next year are popping up after months of a virtually blank field. We heard a half dozen names this week, but so far co

 
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Press justice for Sikhs

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit next week reflects the strong relations between our two nations. But it should not be lost that his visit coincides with the 25th anniversary of the Sikh genocide in India. In November 1984 thousands of Sikhs

 
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Propaganda victory for 9/11 mastermind

WASHINGTON - For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the "propaganda of the deed." And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 - not just the most destructive, but the most spectacular and telegenic. Now its self-proclaimed a

Unconstitutional prognosis

PHOENIX - In 2006, long before there was an Obama administration determined to impose a command-and-control federal health care system, a young orthopedic surgeon walked into the Goldwater Institute here with an idea. The institute, America's most poten

Hate an effective literary agent

I saw the other day that George W. Bush is raising money for his proposed policy institute at Southern Methodist University. I did some research and found out that there are something like 3,000 policy institutes, most of them hosting convocations abo
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Off-duty officers tackle gunman after fight erupts outside South Side diner

A Columbia County man picked the wrong place and time to pick a fight, especially one that Scranton police say involved a loaded handgun. Joseph Peter Zapach, 40, of Bloomsburg, was arrested early Friday in the parking lot of Chick's Diner after three of


 
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Newton Twp. fire displaces six

NEWTON TWP. - A family of six was displaced after their home sustained heavy damage in a Saturday afternoon blaze. Crews responded at about 3:15 p.m. to reports of a structure fire at 1638 Summit Lake Road. Kevin Sebring, his wife and four children were


 


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