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ItÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ difficult to organize thoughts beyond the heartbreaking acknowledgment that an extraordinary tragedy occurred on Feb. 14 in Florida.Seventeen people will be buried and many others were injured when an 19-year-old allegedly pulled a fire alarm and shot at students as they exited ...

Teen who spoke up did what was right

A tragedy may have been averted, said police, because a teenager had the strength of character to tell authorities about threats overheard on the school bus.A 14-year-old classmate at Uniontown Area High School was discussing his plan to bring guns to the school with the intention of shooting ...

ThereÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ little doubt that the Higher Education Act, which affects more than $120 billion in annual federal spending, needs an update. Less clear is whether Republicans’ proposed reforms will do more harm than good.The law, last revised a decade ago, sets the conditions under which federal ...

The U.S. is in the middle of an opioid epidemic.According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from 2014 to 2015, overdose-related deaths from one opioid alone, heroin, increased by 20.6 percent, with nearly 13,000 people dying in 2015.Meanwhile, there remain no known ...

Keep restaurant owners out of the tip jar

This is the time of year when workers expect even the stingiest boss to show a little heart. A proposal by the U.S. Labor Department, however, would make it easier for millions of restaurant owners to indulge their inner Scrooge.This month the department served notice that it intends to once ...

In October, the Supreme Court heard arguments over whether it should limit politicians from tinkering with legislative district lines to advantage their own party. Partisan gerrymandering has become both increasingly sophisticated and increasingly anti-democratic, as parties cement their hold ...