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Articles by: Albert Paschall

Grass roots are greener in Pennsylvania

Even if the environmental advocates at Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future don’t like it open space and farmland preservationists have won...

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Y2K: Every day

We’ve been hearing about Y2K for about 5 years now.  It’s really only a ridiculous conspiracy that claims that at 12:00:01...

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Society's shock troops

  As the holidays approach black clad troops seem to dominate street corners on every urban landscape in the nation.  Their determination...

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'99ers: open space is political gold

 In 1848 a work crew building a sawmill outside of Sacramento found a few specks of yellow dust and one...

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Hobgoblins of Harrisburg

Halloween just isn’t what it used to be.  More people than ever close up their houses and keep the lights off.  As...

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Shame on you

Their defining movie minute was in Peter Benchley’s classic Jaws: “I don’t want you to close the beaches, 4th of July...

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The second battle of Gettysburg

On July 1, 1863 Union Army Scouts spied a patrol from General Robert E. Lee’s Army  foraging for food at a...

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PA PUC: do not pass go

Getting my kids to play Monopoly is impossible.  Rich Uncle Penny Bags’ classic board game that moves little pewter top hats...

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