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VIDEO: TL interview with Gov. Ed Rendell

Governor Ed Rendell discusses his three-point plan for state reform with the Times Leader staff.
Rendell vows county judge choice soon
Gov takes message of reform to NEPA

Obama’s hesitancy on war buildup sends messages

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s drawn-out decision-making on Afghanistan is sending messages. To the Afghan government: Clean up your act. To the Pentagon: I’m no rubber stamp. To the American public: More troops can’t be the sole answer.

For teen, a real-life civics lesson

Eric Leedock is a sophomore at King’s College majoring in biology, but his future might be in politics.

GNA gives nod to 28-year-old

NANTICOKE – District alumnus Ryan Verazin has been chosen to become the newest member of the Greater Nanticoke Area School Board.

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Big crowds expected as Palin kicks off book tour - 11/18/2009

Huge crowds are expected when Sarah Palin kicks off her national book tour in Michigan. The 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate is scheduled to sign copies of her book Wednesday evening at a Barnes and Noble bookstore in Grand Rapids. The book was released Tuesday but has topped best-seller lists for weeks. The book

GOP officials say Dems put agenda ahead of country - 11/08/2009

Democrats just don't get the election message from voters and are pushing a liberal, big government agenda at their party's peril, Republican officials said Sunday as they predicted a political price after the majority's victory on health care. Voters are "tired of the borrowing, the spending, the bailouts, the takeovers," s

2010 elections: Democratic fears, Republican hopes - 11/08/2009

Oh, how the tables have turned. Nervous Democrats are on defense and emboldened Republicans sense opportunity heading into 2010 and the midterm elections. It was just three years ago that the GOP lost the House and Senate as well as governors' races in a cross-country Democratic wave. Now, with most states under their contr

Southern Dems cast wary eye at election results - 11/05/2009

Southern Democrats who watched the trouncing of their party's gubernatorial nominee in Virginia this week are starting to worry that a rising anti-Democratic tide in the South may reverse their hard-fought gains from the last two national elections. "They say people won't walk a mile to vote for you but they'll walk 100 miles to


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