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<strong>JEERS:</strong> Earlier this month, officials in Lycoming County gave in to requests by supporters of former President Donald Trump to conduct a hand recount of all the 60,000 ballots cast in the county in the 2020 presidential election. Trump took close to ...

Pennsylvania鈥檚 500 school boards regularly prove that it鈥檚 overly optimistic to take nine people off the street, put them in a room, and expect them to run enterprises that spend more than $33 billion a year in local, state and federal money.It鈥檚 difficult to calculate how much, but a ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> Brownsville was once a pretty vibrant place 鈥 so vibrant, in fact, that legend has it that Ray Charles worked up the R&amp;B classic 鈥淲hat鈥檇 I Say鈥 at a club there during a late-night jam session. But, for years now, large ...

Just as President Donald Trump misused an old law in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, many of his acolytes in Pennsylvania used an outdated state law to flood county courts with bogus litigation following the Nov. 8 midterm election.Trump adviser John Eastman ...

First, let it be said that football is much safer than it once was.For an example, we need look no further than 1905. That year yielded what one writer has described as 鈥渇ootball鈥檚 death harvest.鈥 In the course of 1905, it鈥檚 believed that more than 20 college football players sustained ...

Cheers and Jeers

<strong>CHEERS:</strong> Political junkies were transfixed this week by the spectacle of Kevin McCarthy being denied the speakers鈥 chair in the U.S. House of Representatives by hardliners in the Republican caucus. It was the first time in 100 years that the ...