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One evening last week, Aina KyrpychovaĢƵ cellphone began blaring a warning of incoming Russian missiles. She quickly began scrolling through an application that Ukrainians use to learn where rockets and drones have hit. Just a few days earlier, a missile strike had killed 11 people just 700 ...

Last year Pennsylvania taxpayers again invested historic levels of funding in public education and for the third consecutive year, the state budget included more than a billion dollars in new funding for K-12 schools. As part of the upcoming state budget for fiscal year 2025-26, we will ...

A number of opinions have been aired recently regarding the recent firing of federal government employees, spearheaded by Elon Musk and Donald Trump. As is often said, you can have your own opinions but not your own facts. Facts inoculate the rational mind from charlatans by teaching us to sort ...

As a mother who raised two children here in the Mon Valley, I care deeply about fresh air, clean drinking water and the well-being of our communities where we live, work and raise our families. Recently, Greene County marked an important yet quiet milestone that may not have made headlines ...

OP-ED: Health care and Humpty Dumpty

As egg prices are still a lead story in this country, the nursery rhyme about Humpty Dumpty jumped into my mind. But my version is about the U.S. health care system. According to my observations, the “system” is precariously sitting on that same potentially crumbling wall where Humpty ...