July 1

A study in success on, and off, runway

SHANNON DOYLE, the Meyers High School graduate who recently won the Miss Pennsylvania title, can be an inspiration to plenty of Luzerne County girls – for reasons that have nothing to do with her knock-out gown or new crown.

July 3

Police coverage fees questioned

THE PENNSYLVANIA Legislature should tread carefully when considering a bill that would compel municipalities without full-time police departments to pay for state police coverage.

July 2

Sending the call for compromise

IT’S BECOMING an unwelcome tradition in Pennsylvania for top lawmakers to spend early July hunkered down in Harrisburg, scheming about how they will advance their parties’ platforms.

June 30

Oversee county minute by minute

IT’S 2009. DO you know what your government is doing?

Richard Connor

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Will Dems bend to health-care opponents? Kevin Blaum In The Arena

FIVE MONTHS into his presidency and Barack Obama’s already full plate just keeps getting more crowded. Rather than flinch, put off or ignore issues, Obama keeps taking them on, and ...

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Call this our summer of reconciliation. It is as though the contract fairy came to town after years of absence, tapped a bunch of stubborn people on the heads they had been butting ...

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