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State should grow more of own teachers

Pennsylvania has an urgent need to convince more high school students to return to classrooms as teachers.According to the U.S. Department of Education, the number of college students completing education degrees declined by 25% from 2011 through 2020. In Pennsylvania, according to the state ...

For malls, it’s a time of reinvention

Nostalgia is as much a part of Christmas as eggnog, stockings hung by the fireplace and Burl Ives singing “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”But, for most of us, the seasonal nostalgia does not include images of carolers in a town square, horse-drawn sleighs gliding across a snowy landscape ...

Party of the apes?

I have no idea why our disgraced, twice impeached, one-term, insurrectionist ex-president still maintains he won the 2020 presidential election.I’m not the only one.By happenstance, I caught an interview with that renowned primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall a few days ago.Just in ...

Leaders and led and a special bond

As efforts to reach a settlement with the H.C. Frick Coal and Coke on union recognition stalled out, a group of local miners requested a meeting with the president of the United States.The miners wanted to explain to none other than Franklin Roosevelt their opposition to returning to work ...

Sinema needs to always be in our face

Almost nobody likes Kyrsten Sinema. Some 57% of Arizona Democrats hold an unfavorable view of their U.S. senator, who just declared herself an Independent. Republicans dislike her almost as much, according to the AARP poll. Independents are more mixed but give her a minus-10 approval ...

The night the lights went out in Europe

<em>Politico Europe, a publication marinated in green politics, has named Russian President Vladimir Putin as one of its “power players of the year” – for, in the publicationĢƵ words, “advancing EuropeĢƵ green agenda.”</em>“By invading Ukraine and ...