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Hold hearings on lobbying

State lawmakers and regulators consistently have fallen short of their long-ago promise to make casino gambling in Pennsylvania completely transparent. State regulation has been marked by internecine warfare between state agencies, after-the-fact revelat

Tax collector already taxed

Throughout the private and public sectors, managers must deal with the reality of smaller work forces. It is extraordinary that Scranton Tax Collector-elect Bill Courtright, amid the global financial chaos that has driven the official regional unemployme

 

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Chris Kelly
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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

 
Publishers' Perspective

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

Ex-assistant DA polling, may run for state Senate

Former Lackawanna County Assistant District Attorney Kathleen Granahan Kane is considering a run for public office, including a possible Democratic primary election challenge next spring to state Senate Minority Leader Robert J. Mellow. Mrs. Kane confirm

 
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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

 
National columns

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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Manhunt ends in West Scranton

A chaotic manhunt through West Scranton that started with state police firing shots at a suspect ended Friday night with the apprehension of a wanted man who two days earlier allegedly led authorities on a high-speed chase through the Midvalley. Derek


 

Manhunt ends in West Scranton

A chaotic manhunt through West Scranton that started with state police firing shots at a suspect ended Friday night with the apprehension of a wanted man who two days earlier allegedly led authorities on a high-speed chase through the Midvalley. Derek


 


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