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Thank you to contributors to meat canning project To the Editor: Our Annual Meat Canning Project is finally complete. We canned 36,000 pounds of chicken which produced 22,540 cans of product. This number puts our total to 863,959 cans of canned meat since our beginning in 1975. May God bless and keep all who have supported, and all those who will receive these cans. In March, we will be distributing 93 cases of meat to our 14 local organizations. A very special thanks to the Chief Logan Volunteer Fire Co., Station 2 for the use of their building, and all the neighboring households ...

Working Americans pay their share of taxes

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A claim that working Pennsylvanians need to “pay their fair share” all too often bubbles to the surfaces of some of our society’s debates on tax policy. The rhetoric that surrounds perennial pushes to eliminate or significantly reduce property tax burdens in Pennsylvania is one place this claim sometimes surfaces, municipal officials’ pursuit of greater latitude for cities and boroughs to assess heavier taxes on payroll is another. The reality is that working Pennsylvanians — and working Americans, particularly the middle class — pay thousands of dollars a year in federal ...

Corporate welfare for hospitals has been raising costs

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Hospitals are not as unpopular as other health care sectors, such as drug manufacturers and insurance companies. But like other businesses, they are prone to rent-seeking and fiercely defensive of special breaks. Case in point: The 340B drug discount program. The federal program was created in 1992 to help hospitals and clinics in poor communities. In recent weeks, it has become the target of new lawsuits over complaints that wealthy health systems are abusing the benefits and driving up costs for everyone else. The program requires pharmaceutical companies to sell drugs at a ...

Keep artificial intelligence out of American classrooms

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Norway is, by almost any metric, a profoundly successful nation. It's rich, democratic and relatively corruption-free. It's not a socialist country, but fans of a robust welfare state and high taxes see much to admire in the very progressive Norwegian model. It also benefits from having the biggest and arguably best-run sovereign wealth fund in the world. And yet, Norway nearly ruined its children. In 2016, flush with cash and progressive values, Norway gave every child in the country, starting at the age of 5, their own iPad or similar digital device. A decade later, young Norwegians ...

The triumph of economic freedom?

Editorials

Prices rise. People blame capitalism. Politicians promise "solutions." President Donald Trump wants to cap credit card interest rates. My socialist mayor wants to freeze rents. Elizabeth Warren wants politicians to decide what prices are "excessive." So I was surprised to see economist Donald J. Boudreaux's new book titled "The Triumph of Economic Freedom." "Economic freedom is losing!" I shout at him in my new video. "Republicans and Democrats vote against it." "Free markets are on the ropes," he replies. "But when you look at history, you see that when economic ...

Curiosity often leads to new adventures

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Sometimes you just need to break away from your regular routine to take a little adventure. It doesn’t have to be elaborate or far away. Sometimes the best escape is a simple day trip to a neighboring county. That was exactly the case for me when I unexpectedly found myself with a free weekend with no obligations keeping me at home. My husband and I decided to head over the mountain toward State College with a stop in Boalsburg at Boal Mansion, a place I had passed hundreds of times but never truly explored. From Route 322, I’d often catch a glimpse of the mansion tucked quietly ...