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Smallpox would routinely kill thousands of people across the world every year in the 18th century, from the loftiest monarchs to the most lowly peasants.So when English doctor Edward Jenner came up with a smallpox vaccine that was derived from cowpox in the early 1800s, you would think its ...

The American Society of Civil Engineers puts out a report card every four years that gives letter grades to the countryĢƵ infrastructure and, without fail, the results are dispiriting, painting the picture of a United States that is shabby and rundown.The 2021 report card gives the ...

ItĢƵ been almost a quarter-century since Pennsylvania enacted its charter school law, and there have been numerous calls in recent years to reform it. When Gov. Tom Wolf said last week that “itĢƵ time to fix our charter school law,” he might have been more accurate had he said, ...

Rick Saccone finally made it to Congress Wednesday.The former Republican state representative from the Elizabeth area who came within a whisker of winning the 2018 special election that sent U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb to Capitol Hill was there Wednesday, but not as a lawmaker. Rather, he was part of ...

State budget surrounded with anxiety

The fiscal time bomb challenging the best budget instincts of the Pennsylvania General Assembly keeps getting closer to exploding.The important question that should be on the minds of state taxpayers is whether lawmakers really have enough time between now and Nov. 30 to fashion a realistic ...

Remain committed to doing your part

As PennsylvaniaĢƵ coronavirus case numbers continue to rise, it appears that the threatened fall resurgence of COVID-19 is coming to pass.Fayette and Greene counties have both been fortunate to lose very few of their residents to the novel coronavirus: 10 deaths have been reported in Fayette ...