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Optimism grows for family businesses
Maybe the economy overall is nothing to get excited about.

But family business owners in Pennsylvania are feeling optimistic, a new survey shows.
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Building Common Ground together
Community.
Civility.
Compassion.
Those sound like qualities America could use more of — especially in an election year shadowed by recession.
Ep......
YEAR IN REVIEW: Weak economy a key influence here in 2011
This was a bruising year for workers and consumers alike.

The feeble economy left its mark again in 2011, giving the year's Top 10 local business s......
Penn State, historic flooding top Pa. news in 2011
Though historic flooding, power outages and a nationwide protest movement made numerous headlines in 2011, two words sum up the biggest story of the y......
More county schoolkids sink into poverty
 

Dr. Barry Clippinger only has to glance in one of Columbia School District's cafeterias for evidence that more children are falling into pov......
Fewer school field trips, less cash for attractions
 

There's a reason Johnny visits fewer local farms and museums these days.
Society has been underwriting fewer class trips.
Educators say John......
Construction pacts fall 38% in August
New month, same old trend.
Construction contracts here fell 38 percent in August, the data firm McGraw-Hill Construction reported Tuesday.
It's the ni......
Median household income falls
After holding steady during the first year of the economic downturn, median household income in Lancaster County slipped 8.2 percent from 2009 to 2010......
Pitts could back payroll tax measure
 

Republican U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts said he could support a one-year extension of payroll tax reductions for American workers, which put an extra......
Obama signs debt bill after final Senate vote





WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate emphatically passed emergency legislation Tuesday to avoid a first-ever government default, rushing th......
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