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The untimely passing of Rich Trumka

Of all the deaths that took place in 2021 perhaps none was more unexpected and consequential than Richard TrumkaĢƵ, the Greene County native and president of organized laborĢƵ the AFL-CIO.Trumka was 72 when he suffered a fatal heart attack in August on an outing with his family. A cousin, ...

Did the Jan. 6 coup fail?

Jan. 6 should have been the point of no return, the pivot point at which even the most blinkered sugar-coaters of Trumpism recoiled in disgust from what they had wrought.For everyone who had convinced themselves that, whatever TrumpĢƵ flaws, the true threat to the American way of life lay on ...

To save the country, tell the truth

As far as I can tell, the number of Republicans against democracy serving in the Pennsylvania General Assembly remains the same as a year ago.You will recall that a month prior to the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol, 64 House and Senate Republicans wrote their infamous letter requesting that the ...

The inner child that is needed

1 Cor 13:11, says, “When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.” (NIV) Any of us can list the irresponsible, funny, peculiar, and immature things that children do and say not just because of their age, but ...

There is so much said these days about the need to reform our justice system. But where does that start and what exactly do these changes look like?Should prosecutors be allowed to buck the law and decide not to prosecute certain offenses? Should the system of cash bail be scrapped because poor ...

What to do about that Russian ultimatum

“Get off our front porch. Get out of our front yard. And stay out of our backyard.”This might stand as a crude summary of two draft security pacts Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei A. Ryabkov delivered last week as RussiaĢƵ price for resolving the crisis created by those 100,000 Russian ...