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Twentieth anniversary of 9/11 an occasion for solemn remembrance

For anyone who was alive and sentient on that day, itĢƵ hard to fathom that 20 years have gone by since Sept. 11, 2001.ThatĢƵ long enough for fashions and technologies to have passed through multiple evolutions, for five presidential elections to have happened, for children to have been ...

Strike unites would-be antagonists

Down Alabama way, a coal miners’ strike, now in its fourth month, echoes strikes in the coal fields of Western Pennsylvania in the 20th century.ItĢƵ eerie, and sad. Strangely, itĢƵ also hopeful.The strike by 1,100 members of the United Mine Workers at the Warrior Met coal mine in ...

The party of violence

A Republican running for Northampton County executive in Pennsylvania gave a heated address on Aug. 29 about mask mandates in schools. Steve Lynch is tired, he said, of providing his school board arguments and data (he apparently thinks the data support letting kids go maskless), but the ...

Litter remains a perennial problem in Pennsylvania

“We’ll always have Paris,” Humphrey Bogart told Ingrid Bergman in “Casablanca.”Here in Pennsylvania, we’ll always have litter, which is not nearly as picturesque or romantic as Paris.Despite decades of public education and cleanups, and hours upon hours of volunteer time, litter ...

The hard choices presidents make

President BidenĢƵ meeting with the families of the 13 service members killed by ISIS-K terrorists at the Kabul airport during the recent airlifts out of Afghanistan was difficult, we are told.“Don’t forget that name,” said the father of one of the young Marines who died in the car ...

The right attitude

In 1980, I was making $18,000 a year with no significant benefits. That year we were driving a built-in-Westmoreland County, diesel Volkswagen because it got over 40 miles to the gallon. We were buying a house for around $70K that was all electric. Because we couldn’t afford an all electric ...