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Now is the time to get a divorce in Pennsylvania.Because of a failure of the state Legislature to pass legislation, a surcharge on court filings has lapsed. The $21.25 fee can’t be charged because the law authorizing it expired Aug. 1. Lawmakers haven’t passed new legislation that would ...

ItĢƵ been said that movies no longer have the central place in the cultural conversation they once did, and for evidence consider that neither Washington, Greene nor Fayette counties have a multiplex cinema anymore. There is a drive-in Dunbar, but if you want to see “Oppenheimer” or ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Jeers:</strong> Health outcomes tend to be worse in rural communities than in urban areas, and certainly part of the reason for this is spotty access to health care services. A March of Dimes report last year identified Greene County as one of six counties in ...

EDITORIAL: Legislative negligence on guns

One of PennsylvaniaĢƵ recent gun-related tragedies occurred in the Brewerytown section of Philadelphia.A 14-year-old boy with severe developmental disabilities found an unsecured handgun in his grandmotherĢƵ bedroom and accidentally shot his cousin, a 2-year-old girl, in the head. The ...

Toledo, Ohio, has been a punchline — or, a punching bag, if you will — in the half-century since singer-songwriter John Denver released “Saturday Night in Toledo, Ohio,” an allegedly humorous but pretty bilious ditty about how the city is Nowheresville, with nothing to see, nothing to ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> For better or worse, Americans accumulate a lot of stuff. It can create clutter in our dwellings, but it also keeps the economy rolling — deciding to get a better grade of toaster or grab one of those shirts that look good on the store ...