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EDITORIAL: Homelessness is an actual problem that demands action

A new president is ensconced at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., and a new Congress has been sworn in. Once they get settled into their offices, they should get to work trying to solve actual problems. And one of them is homelessness in America. Sure, homelessness is a perennial problem, and it ...

EDITORIAL: More deaths than births soon to be a national problem

One hundred years ago, Pennsylvania was a national colossus, with 38 congressional districts and the same number of votes in the Electoral College. It had that clout because, well, a lot of people called the Keystone State home. They still do, but the sun belt and other parts of the United ...

Cheers & Jeers

Cheers: A student who had been diagnosed with tuberculosis was sent home from Charleroi High School Monday after it was discovered that the student had not received a clearance from a doctor to return. The district said it quickly isolated the student and that, at least for now, there is no ...

OP-ED: We have too much stuff

"Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.” –Epicurus Following an excess of holiday giving and receiving, many of us make New YearĢƵ resolutions to tidy up the house and to discard what we no longer need. We also make solemn promises to organize all of our ...

OP-ED: What will Oz and Kennedy bring to health care?

Before transitioning from music to health care, as a student, we learned about the works of composers like Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, and Bela Bartok. These men contributed uniquely to the evolving musical landscape with their creative works. Schoenberg, for example, revolutionized ...

OP-ED: Beautiful changes coming under Trump

President-elect Trump wants to rename the body of water south of New Orleans and west of Tampa. You know, that one that's been called the Gulf of Mexico for the past 400 years. Donald Trump likes the "Gulf of America" for the salt waters washing ashore at Mobile and on the coastline of ...