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 The 'Phacops rana' is Pennsylvania's official state fossil. It's a kind of trilobite, a giant underwater-dwelling pill bug that lived way before the dinosaurs. (Image courtesy of Wikipedia)
Speak Easy

The 10 Pennsylvania symbols you probably didn’t know about

School may be out for most, but you just never stop learning. “What did you learn today?” Why, we learned that Pennsylvania h ...

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 Chris McDaniel promises a victory to a late night audience Tuesday July 3, 2014, at the Lake Terrace Convention Center in Hattiesburg, Miss. McDaniel and six-term Sen. Thad Cochran dueled inconclusively Tuesday night at close quarters during Mississippi's primary election (George Clark/AP Photo)
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Mississippi burning: The GOP’s uncivil war rages onward

It’d be so awesome if tea-party poster boy Chris McDaniel were to win the vicious Senate race in Mississippi. Then we’ ...

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Well Preserved: 2014 Preservation Achievement Awards

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Dave Davies: Off Mic

Civic cowboy rides into the sunset

Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised that Zack Stalberg is leaving his post as president and CEO of the watchdog group Committee of Seven ...

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National Interest

The “open carry” menu: Want some guns with your fries?

  If you were out to dinner, particularly with kids, and some manly guys jonesing for food showed up toting AK-47s or AR-15s ...

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 Student protesters are shown putting a barricade in front of a burning armored personnel carrier that rammed through student lines, June 4, 1989. Many were injured and killed during an army attack on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing's Tienanmen Square. (AP Photo, file)
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Tiananmen and the erasure of history

The Chinese government employs falsehood and terror to blot out the memory of the murders in Tiananmen Square 25 years ago. And the econo ...

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June 3: PA and carbon emissions cap | Delaware River toll discounts | 22nd and Market memorial overkill | Bill Green on SRC’s budget refusal | No scrap for Whitman

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Dust to Dust: 3711 Melon Street’s homegoing

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A fond salute to fall guy Eric Shinseki

  Before we expunge Eric Shinseki from our collective consciousness – he fell on his sword Friday and ...

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Citizens Planning Institute leads RCO workshops this month

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Metallic trees take root in Iroquois Park

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Dave Davies: Off Mic

The story Lewis Katz won’t finish

For years Lewis Katz was just a name to me. A sports team owner, a parking lot, billboard and real estate magnate, one of those guys who ...

12 years ago

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