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One year after Jan. 6 riot, imagine if the roles had been reversed

On the first anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, letĢƵ engage in a thought experiment.Cast your mind back a decade ago to 2012. Incumbent president Barack Obama convincingly defeated Republican rival Mitt Romney in that yearĢƵ presidential election, winning 332 ...

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 ...

Book banning is a trend that should be left in the old year

When an old year departs and a new one arrives, itĢƵ customary to take stock of trends, fads and fashions and forecast what will rise and what will fall in the months ahead.HereĢƵ one trend that we can only hope will peter out in 2022 – the rage in many communities to ban books in school ...