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Unplugging from too much online time

Q. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I think I need help with my online time. ItĢƵ only been a week since high school graduation and it hit me that I’m spending most of my days online. I should be happy. I’m all set for college in August, and the incredible effort I made to get ...

OP-ED: The grandest of gifts

ItĢƵ hard to believe 22 years have passed since we first became grandparents. And now there are six bright stars in our family constellation. But the day our first grandchild arrived, our lives changed dramatically and permanently. It was the beginning of a journey that shaped our sense of ...

MAGA and the need for new leadership

During the 1970s, the word went out: The country needed a Lincoln, not a Ford. That's even truer now. Can the U.S. produce a public figure who combines politically savvy and principled leadership as well as Old Abe did? Probably not. In our history, there's only been one Lincoln. Commenting ...

Teen fears loss of grandparent

Q. Is it strange that I’m a lot closer to my grandma than I am to my mom? I know my mom cares about me, but she doesn’t show it the way my gram does. I know how gram feels, not just because she says “I love you” to me every time she sees me or talks with me, but because she makes time ...

The steel deal is not yet a reality

Ronald Reagan's adage about the old Soviet Union should maybe apply to President Trump's recent sweeping declaration involving U.S. Steel, Japan's Nippon Steel, and the future of American steelmaking in the Mon Valley and elsewhere: "Trust but verify." The president's May 30 rally at U.S. ...

OP-ED: Boomers need to take some blame

In the mid-1980s, I proudly told my wife I had fit into a pair of LeviĢƵ that were a size too small. Proof of my never-ending youth. Without a word, she slid a copy of Newsweek across the kitchen counter. On the cover? A man in LeviĢƵ. The headline? “LeviĢƵ Now Pear-Shaped to Fit the ...