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<strong>Cheers:</strong> For anyone whose concerns about climate change have been heightened by this summerĢƵ wildfires, storms and record-setting temperatures, The <em>New York Times</em> had a headline that allowed for a rare bit of ...

OP-ED: Fayette County not willing to take risks on injection wells

The Fayette County Board of Commissioners were pleased to learn that a wastewater injection well site is no longer proposed for Nicholson Township.We remained united in our opposition to the proposed injection well from the moment concerned residents and the supervisors of Nicholson Township ...

OP-ED: How Eric Adams has vindicated immigration restrictionism

The public intellectual Irving Kristol famously said that the definition of a neoconservative is “a liberal who has been mugged by reality.”By the same token, the definition of a convert to immigration restrictionism is a big-city mayor dealing with a surge of illegal immigration in his ...

OP-ED: We are all harmed by the pure greed of “savage capitalism”

Fifteen years ago, a local physician approached me and asked if I’d hire his best friend as a researcher. Even though his physician friend had trained at the Sorbonne in Paris and had been a practicing surgeon for over 20 years in his native country, he could not practice in the United States ...

OP-ED: Pennsylvania lawmakers can fix filing fee problem

Now is the time to get a divorce in Pennsylvania.Because of a failure of the state Legislature to pass legislation, a surcharge on court filings has lapsed. The $21.25 fee can’t be charged because the law authorizing it expired Aug. 1. Lawmakers haven’t passed new legislation that would ...