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Apollo Area School District student Lillian Colwell holds back-to-school clothes from Beall’s in Allegheny Towbnship. (Joyce Hanz | TribLive) Kiski Kids Closet owner Dylann Sowers displays some back-to-school clothing Aug. 15 inside the thrift store in Downtown Vandergrift. (Joyce Hanz | TribLive) Siblings Gracie and Carter Detman of Smithton enjoy back-to-school shopping with a relative…

The recently introduced Online Sellers’ Bill of Rights Act of 2026 (H.R. 9799) sounds like legislation small businesses should welcome. Its stated goal is to protect independent sellers from unfair treatment by large online marketplaces. But good intentions do not necessarily produce good policy. In the case of H.R. 9799, the legislation would interfere with…