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From The Patriot-News:
Pennsylvania lawmakers have a scary budgetary hole to deal with in 2009. On Wednesday, they learned exactly how much more they’ll be paid trying to plug it. House and Senate members will receive a 2.8 percent raise, setting lawmakers’ base pay at $78,315.
The 30 legislative leaders will receive more. […]

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He’s Ray D’Agostino, West Lampeter Township’s manager for the last eight years.
Ray D’Agostino, Smucker Chief of Staff

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FREED: Radio Free Asia is reporting that Arzigul Tursun, who is more than six months pregnant with her third child, has been released to her family and allowed to continue her pregnancy. She had been scheduled to undergo a second-term abortion against her will in a case that drew international attention and condemnation from some […]

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This came via e-mail today to a family member who owns a Saturn.
You made the right choice when you put your confidence in General Motors, and we appreciate your past support. I want to assure you that we are making our best vehicles ever, and we have exciting plans for the future. But we need […]

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SAME OLD SAME OLD? The chairman of the national Constitution Party, Lancaster attorney James N. Clymer, had this to say about Monday’s meeting between President-elect Barack Obama and U.S. Sen. John McCain — their first face-to-face since the election and one described by Obama as being “a good conversation about how we can do some […]

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Lancaster County’s representative in the U.S. House, Republican Joe Pitts, issued the following statement this afternoon in the case of Arzigul Tursun, who six months pregnant with her third child and, according to ABC News reports, under guard in a hospital in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region scheduled to undergo an abortion against her will because […]

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Durable.
(Karl was not in a good mood for this interview.)

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Capitolwire.com columnist Peter L. DeCoursey, a veteran political reporter, finds something interesting in the presidential election returns here in Pennsylvania — that Democrat Barack Obama would have beaten Republican John McCain even without Philadelphia’s votes. That’s stunning because, as he puts it, without that city and its suburbs, Ed Rendell would have lost the 2002 […]

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OK. So it didn’t really make it into print. Here are some other rejected Chicago Tribune front pages, for your Friday afternoon viewing pleasure.

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