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More compassion needed in America

I haven’t been alive quite long enough to know if we are actually at a tipping point in America, or if it just feels like it. Maybe every generation feels like they’re in the midst of an unstoppable upheaval all the time.In my own lifetime, even, I remember a point during the Bush years ...

Law break

Congress has serious, pressing business before it, business that one would assume can’t wait.And most of that business is connected in one way or another with the sequester, the automatic, across-the-board budget cuts that Congress enacted in the confident belief they would never come to ...

What a life!

Former Gov. William W. Scranton, who died Sunday at age 96, had a long and distinguished record of service to Pennsylvanians and the nation. Though he spent but six years in elected office – one term in Congress, one term as governor – he was a central figure in state and national politics ...

‘The American Destiny’

Every evening there is a haunting train whistle that breaks the silence of the night as it passes through the cities and towns of America.That stirring call is followed by clanging bells and a rising thunderous rumble announcing the arrival of an emblematic passenger train called The American ...

Worth a try

FirstEnergyÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ decision to close HatfieldÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Ferry Power Station in Greene County and the Mitchell Power Station in Washington County was definitely some of the worst news to hit here in quite some time.The loss of 380 good-paying jobs was definitely a jolt to those directly and indirectly ...

Controversy

Martin verdict stirs furor across nationIt would be a shame if the unnecessary death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin produced more paydays for the man who fatally shot the unarmed black teenager in the heart during a scuffle.But George Zimmerman, the Sanford, Fla., neighborhood watch captain who ...