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Putting a registration sticker on your license plate was always a tricky task for most Pennsylvanians. Putting the tiny stickers on one small corner of a license plate required the sort of manual dexterity many of us lack.So, many motorists across the commonwealth were glad to hear that the ...

He did it

2016 will be remembered for years to come, mainly because of one man. That, of course, is Donald Trump, who confounded all the political analysts by winning the Republican presidential nomination and then knocking off Hillary Clinton in one of the biggest presidential election upsets in the ...

In the dark

Among the many ironies contained in PennsylvaniaÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ open records law, or at least how the law is interpreted by local officials and their lawyers, is that government entities believe that the amount of money they spend on legal fees in resisting the release of information can be kept from ...

Bad news

As its name indicates, PennsylvaniaÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Independent Fiscal Office is supposed to be a nonpartisan agency.ItÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ function is to prepare revenue projections for the governor and state lawmakers to review in the preparing the state budget. The agency specifically stays away from supporting ...

$hale

“Follow the money.’’ That was the advice given by the source known as “Deep Throat’’ to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their Watergate investigation.The probe eventually resulted in the resignation of Richard Nixon as president of the United States, ...

Smart idea

OK, letÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ see how smart you are.1. We elect a president for how many years?A. 4B. 12C. 8D. 52. Who was president during the Great Depression and World War II?A. Franklin RooseveltB. Harry TrumanC. Calvin CoolidgeD. Richard Nixon3. If the president can no longer serve, who becomes president?A. ...