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<strong>Cheers:</strong> A number of local projects will benefit from state grant funding to expand outdoor recreational opportunities in our area. Among the projects are $514,000 in funding to rehabilitate 10.5 miles of the Great Allegheny Passage in Fayette County, ...

Fight catalytic converter thefts

Catalytic converters are invaluable to the environment because they convert toxic vehicle exhausts into less onerous gases. Unfortunately, the rare earth minerals that they employ for the process — including platinum, palladium and rhodium — make the devices highly valuable to ...

Time and plenty of trial and error have demonstrated that bloodletting is no cure for anyone suffering a serious illness, and is far more likely to make matters much, much worse.Lobotomizing individuals with mental illnesses and disabilities has long been discredited. The same goes for ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> Don Homer has been caring for Clearview Cemetery in Uniontown since 2011, giving his time to ensure those buried there are not forgotten. On Wednesday, he was honored by the Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group with an Outstanding ...

<em>EditorĢƵ note: Syndicated columnist Diane Dimond is on sabbatical. The following was published in 2021.</em>Americans are now deeper in debt than at any other time in our nationĢƵ history. Especially acute are mounting debts on past-due mortgage payments, ...

After completing a keynote speech on risk management in Seattle, a young man introduced himself to me and said, “I just wanted you to know that I decided to go into health-care administration after reading your blog post about that fish.” Of course, I was intrigued, flattered, but also ...