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When history leaps from the page

Some years ago I was sitting at a research table at the state archives in Harrisburg. I had filled out a research slip for something or other when I was handed (by mistake) a letter-size envelope containing a piece of canvas – a sample for those in state government in 1861 who bought tents ...

Rostraver homicide shows the need for openness, transparency

Shooting someone to death in the parking lot of a strip mall is a heinous act.ItĢƵ also a very public act. And that being the case, the public has a right to know the identity of suspects and why they are being held.That didn’t happen, however, following the murder of Boyke Budiarachman in ...

OP-ED: Our Dickensian border policy

“I became, at 10 years old, a little laboring hind in the service of Murdstone and Grinby.”Thus relates David Copperfield in the Charles Dickens novel of the same name.Of course, Dickens was a crusader against the exploitation of children. The edge is taken off the depictions of the ...