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Transparency needed in salary bumps

In 2019, a list of pay raises in the Pennsylvania governorĢƵ office brought criticism.Gov. Tom Wolf handed out increases to some of his top staffers, ranging from 7.7% to 36%.It wasn’t that anyone questioned the work. People questioned the timing, which came just after the governorĢƵ ...

Marking Roe in a Depression-era fight

July marks another anniversary for the coal strikes that roiled Western Pennsylvania and, most especially, Fayette County in the early months of Franklin RooseveltĢƵ fabled New Deal.The 1933 strikes by miners working for outfits like the rabidly anti-union H.C. Frick Coal and Coke Company ...

Why we can’t have a nice Independence Day

On July 3, 1776, shortly after the approval of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail. "I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States," ...

Get broadband facts straight

Recent media reports have mischaracterized the role of local telephone carriers in deploying high-speed broadband, and the role of a 2004 state law that set the minimum broadband speeds the telcos must offer to their customers.ItĢƵ a complex subject, to be sure, but itĢƵ absolutely ...

Thank goodness for the GOP good guys

That a group of Michigan Republicans were told to hide out overnight in that stateĢƵ capitol to secretly select a false slate of presidential electors pledged to Donald Trump brings to mind a scene from “Seven Days in May.”The movie, which stars Burt Lancaster as treasonous Air Force Gen. ...

Rural crime wave defies easy solutions

If you want to understand where Americans believe crime happens, just look to the television shows they have watched through the years.“Law and Order” unfolds in New York City. “The Wire” is set amid the grit of Baltimore. Going back further, “The Streets of San Francisco” is, well, ...