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Distrust leaves trash at Slippery Rock curb
A dispute this week in the hometown of Slippery Rock University illustrates how important it is to weigh all the ingredients that compose a college town — to blend and balance the interests of 8,500 students, 3,000 residents and the business community that thrives in service to both. The dispute also shows what can happen when the community deviates from the classic recipe.
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Multinationals’ tax avoidance points to need for reform
Apple Inc. is ranked as one of the most admired companies in the America. Its engineers and managers are among the most creative in the world, producing the innovative iPhone and iPad products.
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School tax sanity
In response to “Board majority favors tax hike” to fund pensions, I polled approximately 80 people at work as to how much they spend weekly on booze and cigarettes. Not a single person answered close to $85. Where did Butler School Board member Helene Abramowitz obtain her figures?
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Support appreciated
The Western Pennsylvania/West Virginia Chapter of The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society thanks the residents of Cranberry Township for donating materials from your beloved Playtime Palace for our third annual Pineapple Classic 5k Obstacle Race. This Hawaiian-themed 5k obstacle course race and luau is scheduled for Sept. 21 at Hartwood Acres.
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Sentence: humiliation
Thanks to Attorney Robert Hawk for recognizing in his May 14 letter to the editor that common respect was destroyed in the case of former state Sen. Jane Orie holding a sign of apology to be sent to all Pennsylvania judges.
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Today’s Chuckle
Subway workers get in on the ground floor and work their way down.
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Score sours ‘Gatsby’
I saw the trailer for the latest movie based on the book “The Great Gatsby” starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby.
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Campus guns bad idea
As a resident of Slippery Rock Township, I am appalled at Slippery Rock University allowing its students to carry guns on campus, other than in its buildings or at events (“SRU students discuss gun policy,” Sunday, May 19, Page 1).
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Think back — back before we knew that the IRS was unacceptably targeting right-wing groups for scrutiny or that the Department of Justice was unbelievably searching the phone records of journalists.
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Bad customer service? IRS scandal has legs
WASHINGTON — “Horrible customer service.” That’s what the newly fired IRS commissioner averred was the agency’s only sin in singling out conservative political groups for discriminatory treatment.
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The nation’s biggest banks are waging an outrageous fight against a bipartisan Senate bill seeking to protect taxpayers from bailing them out.
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Is health care’s slowdown for real?
“If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”
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