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Obamacare

Right now, being a woman is considered a "pre-existing condition." In fact, insurance companies are charging women up to 50 percent more than men for the same coverage. ...

March 20, 2012 Letters to the Editor

Regulation and Obama's numbers game

Statistics, they say, is the art of torturing numbers until they confess. If so, they must have a rack built somewhere in the White House. Consider how the administratio...

March 20, 2012 Other Voices

Wall Street arrogance, greed still exist, despite reform law

Across America, people quit their jobs every day. Most quit quietly; some quit with some flare or offer some comments in an exit interview. Few people quit their job wit...

March 20, 2012 Our Opinion

Ex-Im Bank: high-flying corporate welfare

WASHINGTON — Sallie James was born in Australia on July 4, 1976, which suggests that Providence planned what happened 30 years later: She moved to Washington. She studie...

March 19, 2012 Other Voices

Shell's 'cracker' decision gives region a big economic boost

With Thursday’s announcement that Shell Oil Co. has chosen a Beaver County site for a chemical “cracker” plant, the temptation to slip into hyperbole is hard to resist. ...

March 19, 2012 Our Opinion

OTHER VOICES

Soaring gasoline prices have dragged down President Barack Obama’s poll ratings, and now his energy secretary says he no longer wants prices to reach the even-higher Eur...

March 19, 2012 Other Voices

Cheers & Jeers . . .

Although details are yet to be worked out, it was encouraging to learn Monday that $600,000 has been pledged to help revitalization of Butler’s downtown business distric...

March 17, 2012 Our Opinion

Ending taxpayer funding of union salaries

PHOENIX — Sal DiCiccio says he’s sorry. It is, he says, no excuse that the complex labor contracts that he, as a member of the city council, voted to ratify for city emp...

March 16, 2012 Other Voices

Mars teachers must again acknowledge district's plight

Tough decisions await the Mars School District as it works to resolve a projected $2.5 million 2012-13 budget deficit. But the district would be facing a significantly l...

March 16, 2012 Our Opinion

OTHER VOICES

The Pentagon is under orders from Congress to cut about $1 trillion in spending, yet its proposal for two new rounds of base closings got a cold reception on Capitol Hil...

March 16, 2012 Other Voices

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