<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 ...
<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 ...
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 ...
ThereĢƵ an approach to political questions that the conservative in me rebels against. LetĢƵ call it the “You can’t have too much of a good thing” fallacy.Virtually every popular idea in American life has cheerleaders for this fallacy. You’ve surely heard someone say something like: ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...