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COVID-19 vaccine: Part I

There were many times, I’m sure, when my mother was disappointed in me, but one memory is seared into my brain like rice scorched into the bottom of a forgotten pot on the stove. Imagine itĢƵ your momĢƵ favorite pot. The one she inherited from the good grandmother.I was 16, and for ...

Reforms to Pennsylvania charter school law needed

ItĢƵ been almost a quarter-century since Pennsylvania enacted its charter school law, and there have been numerous calls in recent years to reform it. When Gov. Tom Wolf said last week that “itĢƵ time to fix our charter school law,” he might have been more accurate had he said, ...

Leading by fear

As a child, I had a few secret places where fear died, where my thoughts came alive, and the words I spoke came out just like I wanted. In those secret places, life happened unafraid, and I felt free to feel and express my thoughts. Those secret places were originally little kid places, and ...

GOP grassroots anger boils over

As crisis gripped Washington in the early days of the Cold War, an aide to Secretary of State George C. Marshall asked how he managed to remain calm. “I’ve seen worse,” Marshall answered.Indeed he had. As Army chief of staff before and during World War II and then at the State Department, ...

Cable news ‘Guy’ telling some big ones

Guy Reschenthaler has a problem that is also our problem.How so? Reschenthaler, the Republican who, rumor has it, represents Fayette, Greene and Washington counties (plus a portion of Westmoreland) in Congress, is attempting to raise political dollars with major whoppers – fabulous falsehoods ...

This just in: the election was stolen

It turns out there was a Philadelphia election scandal. And the scandal morphed into a fight on Capitol Hill for the soul of the Republican Party.The leader of the Republicans – more or less – was a charismatic populist who hated his enemies and encouraged his supporters to fight like the ...