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This yearĢƵ round of redistricting – the work of shaping the political maps that help to determine the lawmakers who represent us in Harrisburg and Washington, D.C. – once again “falls to a small group of legislative insiders who work behind closed doors,” Spotlight PAĢƵ Kate ...

Time to end childhood lead poisoning in Pa.

The Lead-Free Promise Project, a new coalition of child welfare advocates, law enforcement, housing officials, health insurers, health care providers and more, have joined forces to urge Pennsylvania lawmakers to target childhood lead poisoning at its source.Lawmakers should heed their call and ...

The vaccines that were developed at lightning speed to combat COVID-19 are safe and highly effective, and millions of Americans have received them for all the right reasons – because they want to protect themselves, their families, friends and communities, and finally get life back to ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> BrownsvilleĢƵ Jolena Quarzo and RinggoldĢƵ Ryan Pajak won individual titles last week at the WPIAL Class AA Cross Country Championship. The gold was QuarzoĢƵ second and PajakĢƵ first. Cheers also to UniontownĢƵ Hope Trimmer for ...

Probation bill accelerates justice reform

Just a week after the Wolf administration announced that the state prison population had declined to its lowest level in decades – due largely to a series of bipartisan criminal justice reforms – the state Senate is poised to adopt another reform to accelerate the progress.By a unanimous, ...

Curriculums aren’t secrets, or weapons

Public school curriculums are legitimate matters of public interest, or at least of parental interest, and they clearly are public information. So, in the normal course of things, posting curriculums online should not be controversial.But the current political environment is far from the normal ...