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Don’t reject candidates because of their age

We’ve been told again and again that a week is an eternity in politics, and we still have 19 more to go before the first votes are cast in the 2020 presidential primary season. Sure, front-runners can stumble and expectations can be upended, but right now the odds are pretty good that whoever ...

On Sept. 4, Cecil Roberts served up a hard truth.In a talk before the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., the president of the United Mine Workers of America said, “CoalĢƵ not back. Nobody saved the coal industry.”Roberts further pointed out that coal-fired power plants are closing ...

Finding healthy food a concern

A teen in the United Kingdom lost his eyesight to nutritional optic neuropathy, a condition most often seen in countries where nutritious food and the ability to eat a varied diet isn’t plentiful.In this boyĢƵ case, according to a report from the BBC, the boy existed on a diet of potato ...

Opioid verdicts have to hurt

What is the cost of a crisis?The opioid epidemic has been a greedy monster, demanding more and more resources from all levels of government as well as hospitals and insurance companies over the last 20 years. It has eaten lives and devoured communities. In 2013 alone, the Centers for Disease ...

Bullying bill complex, but worth developing

Despite agreement across Pennsylvania that bullying in schools is a problem that needs much more preventive action, it is hard to imagine that proposals being prepared by state Rep. Frank Burns, D-Johnstown, will achieve passage without formidable challenges.It is reasonable to wonder how much ...

Just this week, a pickup truck crashed into a Florida school bus on the first day of school there Monday, injuring a second-grader, according to the Associated Press (AP).On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that an Alabama high schoolĢƵ senior class president died following a collision ...