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Articles by: Albert Paschall

Pennsylvania: The wolf is at the door

 (Fairy Tale, PA., August 1999)  Attorneys have filed suit against a hunter who shot and killed a wolf outside of Fairy...

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Pennsylvanias flunk zoning test

As local governments get ready to re-convene after summer recess its time for you to test your local Zoning skills.  The...

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The tail wags the cows

  In the ‘60s a Czech dairy farmer was asked the difference between socialism and communism.  That’s easy the farmer answered.  When...

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724,000,000 good reasons

 $724 million sounds like a lot of money.  But in state government it’s not.  This year it’s the most dangerous number in...

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Hope for the morons

(Heaven, July 1999)  Exhausted, Moses approached the pearly gates wary of his reception.  It was going to be a long night.  Congress was...

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The carnival has left Harrisburg

Summer is carnival season in Pennsylvania.  Those raucous noisy, sometimes cheesy fairs with their rides, sideshows and gimmicky games got their...

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Pennsylvania's refugees

From time to time the state has opened its heart to those driven from their native lands but refugees have...

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First love

When I was five-years-old I spent the summer of ‘59 at my grandparents’ home on Selma Street in the West...

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