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Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> This region was once heavily populated by immigrants who came here to work in mines and industry and build a better life for themselves and their families. Immigrants are once again arriving, this time in the Charleroi area, which has seen an ...

OP-ED: Must weddings lead to marriage?

Though not one to follow the celebrities, I still can’t get the divorce of Britney Spears and Sam Asghari out of my headspace. They’d been married for only a year and change, but their wedding was covered as a triumph of recovery.Who was there? Madonna, Drew Barrymore, Paris Hilton. What ...

OP-ED: The GOP race is not quite as over as it looks

If it “got late early” in the old majestic Yankee Stadium with its long shadows, as the famous Yogi Berra quote had it, itĢƵ gotten late before about the fourth inning in the Republican presidential race.In 2016, Donald Trump loved to pump out the results of unreliable online polls that ...

OP-ED: Some early morning thoughts

Some mornings I wake up early and think about the things that will most profoundly influence the future of both our children and grandchildren.First and foremost is climate change. Regardless of your beliefs, climate change has accelerated so quickly that without serious intervention, our ...

EDITORIAL: Better road to pay for state police

Debates over unresolved elements of the state governmentĢƵ new $44.45 billion budget – including more than $600 million for four state-affiliated universities’ in-state tuition discounts, $100 million in “level-up” funding for poor school districts, and more – have obscured ...