Nurses are overworked
      (Susan M. Turner is a local organizer for of the Campaign for Patient Safety, a project of SEIU Health Care Pennsylvania, a labor union for health care workers.) One year ago, the Pa. House of Representatives passed legislation to ban mandatory overtime for nurses and other healthcar...
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Through An 'Old Timer's' Eyes
By Howard 'Mac' McDonald
      Like most of the people in our neck of the woods, we planted flowers all weekend long. The next planting frenzy will be in the vegetable garden. Like everything else, flowers and vegetable plants are really up in price. It seems like the rising cost of gasoline has caused every thing to take a ju...
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We've got mail!
      Time to tax natural gas To the editor: In all of your articles about the natural gas "boom," I have not seen one mention of House Bill 1373. Your readers really should know about this. HB 1373 has the potential to lower real estate taxes for all of your townships, school districts and the c...
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