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Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> The <em>ĢƵ</em> was pleased to share the news this week that the Fayette County Cultural Trust will again bring The Wall That Heals to Fayette County later this year. “This is the areaĢƵ ...

OP-ED: Solving Pennsylvania’s school staffing crisis

What do Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the Republican governor of Arkansas, and Michelle Lujan Grisham, the Democratic governor of New Mexico, have in common?Not a whole lot, but they do agree that increasing pay for educators is key to tackling crisis-level staffing shortages in their public ...

OP-ED: Pittsburgh’s office vacancy rate remains high

PittsburghĢƵ top-notch Downtown office vacancy rate remained stubbornly high at the end of 2022. And there are serious questions whether it will see much in the way of recovery in 2023.But one possible fix for the shortfall — a deficit pre-dating the coronavirus pandemic and further ...

EDITORIAL: New rules spell out an obvious miss in House ethics

If Pennsylvania legislators ever wonder why they might not be seen as completely trustworthy, they need only to look to their track record of how they govern others versus how they govern themselves.The most infamous example is always the 2005 pay increase – passed at 2 a.m. without any ...