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Are we becoming less warlike? LetĢƵ hope so

The first Memorial Day was commemorated on May 30, 1868, just a little more than three years after the end of the Civil War. The scars left by the war still ran deep – between the Union and the Confederate states, 620,000 combatants lost their lives. In the early 1860s, that was a full 2% ...

Cheers & Jeers

Cheers: Traffic was snarled for a little while in downtown Carnegie Monday, but it wasn’t a typical slowdown caused by an accident or construction. Instead, it was because about 20 coach buses carrying veterans to Washington, D.C., made a stop in the Allegheny County community so they could ...

Postal service must practice better safety

Winding its way through Congress is legislation that would require the U.S. Postal Service to track crashes of vehicles carrying mail. The legislation, which carries the name Mail Traffic Deaths Reporting Act, and which passed the House on May 6, also would punish USPS contractors that fail to ...

Investing in child care would ease burdens on families, providers

If you have a child in a day care program, congratulations are in order. You were lucky that you were able to get them enrolled in one, given how long the waiting lists are at some child care centers. And hereĢƵ something you might have noticed when you drop off your child in the morning ...

Cheers & Jeers

Cheers: LetĢƵ say your grandmother died without telling anybody that she had a safe deposit box with jewelry and stock certificates in it, or a savings account that went unmentioned. Without heirs claiming it, the money and the valuables go to the state, where it is held as unclaimed ...