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In the early 1960s, when President John F. Kennedy was fruitlessly trying to get Congress to implement a plan to provide federal health insurance for AmericaĢƵ seniors, more than half of them did not have any coverage at all and were left to fend for themselves as medical costs inexorably ...

You may have seen the purple signs cropping up around the area announcing that October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, with a phone number that people can call if they are a victim or know someone who is.That there even is a Domestic Violence Awareness Month is a sign of progress. ...

Address ‘turnpike leakage’

Probably no one with any real understanding or logical suppositions surrounding the Pennsylvania TurnpikeĢƵ switch to all-electronic tolling subscribed to the shortsighted notion that the travel entity would not experience serious challenges in ensuring that a superior toll-collection record ...

For anyone who was alive and sentient on that day, itĢƵ hard to fathom that 20 years have gone by since Sept. 11, 2001.ThatĢƵ long enough for fashions and technologies to have passed through multiple evolutions, for five presidential elections to have happened, for children to have been ...

“We’ll always have Paris,” Humphrey Bogart told Ingrid Bergman in “Casablanca.”Here in Pennsylvania, we’ll always have litter, which is not nearly as picturesque or romantic as Paris.Despite decades of public education and cleanups, and hours upon hours of volunteer time, litter ...

According to U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, close to 90% of teachers in the country have received COVID-19 vaccines, an infinitely sensible action to take, considering that many will soon be entering classrooms with children who have either not yet been vaccinated or are under age ...