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OP-ED: News flash: Companies don’t want to lose money

Jimmy Patronis, FloridaĢƵ “chief financial officer,” said that Farmers Insurance pulled out of Florida not because it was losing money there but because the company was “woke.” How that wokeness manifested itself, he does not say.The profit motive is apparently a very shocking concept ...

LetĢƵ all hear it for the wonderful days of slavery?

Have you heard the latest?Slaves had themselves some big fun back in the day!ThatĢƵ the word out of Florida, where they’re rewriting history to include the happy-go-lucky, carefree lives of AmericaĢƵ slaves.Or it seems that way.According to the Florida Board of Education, middle school ...

‘Oppenheimer’ doesn’t get it right

A homeboy at heart, I half-waited for Gen. George C. Marshall to show up in “Oppenheimer” the movie.The Uniontown native and Army chief of staff during World War II did make a screen appearance, or at least I assume that was him being depicted sitting alongside Secretary of War Henry ...

Primary runoff elections a bad idea for Pennsylvania

In May 2022, state Sen. Doug Mastriano secured the Republican nomination for governor with 44% of the vote, beating by more than 2-to-1 his closest challenger, former U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta.It was an impressive victory for Mastriano, but the fact that he received 44% of the vote means that 56% ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> Fair season in the region officially kicked off last week with the start of the Jacktown Fair in Greene County and continued Thursday with the start of the Fayette County event. From now until the West Alexander Fair wraps up on Sept. 9, area ...