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Could the investment of more pickleball courts in Pennsylvania be the pathway towards mitigating political division, cultivating civic engagement, and working together despite political differences?

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The recent election outcomes should tell Republicans that specific candidates still matter.

The partisan messages, however, are egregious abuses of government resources, and whether put there by decree of the U.S.