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What a presidential president would say

Here is what President Donald Trump said Saturday about the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, sparked by a demonstration of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members:“We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many ...

State should address our bad driving habits

We have become a nation of bad drivers. Young and old alike ignore the basic rules of the road.How did we get to this point? Why do motorists suddenly turn rude and ignorant when they climb behind the wheels of vehicles?We can debate if the younger drivers are learning their horrible habits ...

Of all the terrible, unfair and just plain stupid ideas flowing out of Harrisburg these days over how to plug a $2 billion-plus hole in the state budget, this takes the cake.An idea is being circulated in Republican circles to get revenue from the natural gas boom in Pennsylvania — not by ...

Within the murky online corners of the so-called Dark Net, drug dealers emphasize the best way to send their goods across the United States is not via FedEx, UPS, or another private mail carrier, but through the U.S Postal Service.Last year, up to 59,000 opioid-related deaths occurred, making ...

Same old

ItÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ deja vu all over again in Harrisburg.Once again, state legislators missed the June 30 deadline to pass a state budget. The lawmakers did pass a $32 billion budget last week, but it was only a spending bill. They’ve been working since then on a revenue bill which would finance the ...

Why not?

Voter turnout has been on the decline for a number of years, and it was abysmal once again in last monthÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ primary. Fayette County led the way with a meager 27 percent turnout followed by Greene County at 25 percent, Westmoreland County at 19 percent and Washington County at 18 percent.There ...