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Governor plays word games to hide increase in gas tax
Gov. Tom Corbett is playing a Clintonian language game in asserting that lifting the cap on the oil company franchise tax is not a tax increase. But it may be a game that other Republicans are willing to play along with, as they struggle to maintain their conservative cred while finding a way to fix our roads and bridges. Most lawmakers I talked to this week seemed to think, that of all the governor’s priorities, the transportation plan seems the most likely to succeed.
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Violence off the field is unsettling and so is the lack of punishment
Editor’s note: Women’s Services Inc. of Crawford County — this year celebrating its 35th anniversary of caring and healing local victims of domestic violence — is offering a series of commentaries focusing on domestic and sexual violence. These essays will describe the challenges from abuse for the Crawford County community and Women’s Services Inc., and what can be done to improve the work being done here.
The National Football League season culminated last week with the pomp and circumstance of professional football known as the Super Bowl. The 2012 football season is officially over. For the next seven months, no more Sunday afternoon games to watch. No Sunday night, Monday night or Thursday night games to watch either. Like many, I was raised on a steady diet of NFL football and my Sunday afternoons will have a void that can’t be filled until September. But regardless of whether you follow football or not, the sport has been receiving a lot of attention lately. The violent nature of football has raised concerns from every corner of society. Even the president has weighed in. What is conspicuously absent from the conversation, however, is any discussion about the level of violence being committed by players off the fields of play. -
Editorial: Recreation Complex pool too important to risk partial closure
Wednesday’s town meeting about the future of the Meadville Area Recreation Complex pool is for you even if you have no interest in swimming. It’s for people who care about the safety of our kids and it’s for people who want to ensure the future economic vitality of our community. We figure that’s just about everybody.
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Editorial: Recreation Complex pool too important to risk partial closure
Wednesday’s town meeting about the future of the Meadville Area Recreation Complex pool is for you even if you have no interest in swimming. It’s for people who care about the safety of our kids and it’s for people who want to ensure the future economic vitality of our community. We figure that’s just about everybody.
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Rush for guns, ammo is a demonstration of free speech
Following the hysteria generated by gun prohibitionists in the wake of the Sandy Hook tragedy, a nationwide rush on gun stores began as citizens bought semiautomatic modern sporting rifles, handguns and ammunition, in effect “making a political statement” about proposals to ban such firearms.
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Gov. Corbett's state store privatization plan gets off on the wrong foot
Nothing Gov. Tom Corbett said Wednesday explained why his effort to end the state’s liquor monopoly would be any more successful than earlier attempts, and the governor’s bid got off on the wrong foot by snubbing many lawmakers who were not a preview of the plan before it was announced.
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Averting the real fiscal cliff
One of the many buzz words for 2012 without a doubt was “fiscal cliff,” a phrase used to describe the expiration of various tax provisions, namely the George W. Bush-era tax rates, and indiscriminate budgets cuts commonly known as “sequestration.” Most economic experts warned that allowing the combination of both to take effect would wreak havoc on the nation’s fragile economy. According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, failing to extend the current tax structure alone would have reduced national employment by upwards of 3.4 million jobs.
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Talking to kids about elections - without bias
As much as we might want the election to be over, in these last few days of the campaign, there's a real opportunity for parents to help educate the next generation of voters.
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Nonvoters are trying to tell us something
There's one electoral bloc that both parties can vilify at their leisure: those U.S. citizens who refuse to vote.
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