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Wanted: civility

There is something wrong with us as a nation when 20 children are massacred in their classroom — one in a long line of such travesties. It keeps happening, more often here than in any other supposedly civilized country in the world. And it has to stop.What can anyone say? Perhaps we could ...

The sound of good government

Do you hear that?Just listen. Closely.Hear it?Yes, thatÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ what you’re hearing: the glorious sound of television commercials at the same volume as the show you were watching.ThatÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ because, as of yesterday, the days of your television shaking itself off the wall from obscenely loud ...

Dubious record

Congratulations, Pennsylvania.It seems we broke a record last week.Thanks to former Sen. Robert Mellow, the commonwealth now has eight — thatÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ right, eight — former state legislators in prison on corruption convictions.Observers believe that scandalous total is an all-time high for the ...

Come clean

Testimony by high-ranking state Department of Environmental Protection employees has uncovered some uncomfortable questions about the agency that is supposed to be protecting PennsylvaniaÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ environment.One employee said the DEP Bureau of Laboratories reran parts of its residential water tests ...

Trip sheds new light on Black Friday

On Black Friday, my wife and I and 18 Waynesburg University students were a few thousand miles from home, spending our last day of our week-long service trip to Patzun, Guatemala.We were putting on a carnival for the 80-some children who live at the Nutritional Center and Home for Children, ...

Too much

Gov. Tom Corbett doubts that the state government will have enough money to help thousands gain access to health care.Neither he nor state legislators gave a second thought, however, to another facet of increased state spending that was announced Monday at roughly the same time that Mr. Corbett ...