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OP-ED: Life lessons learned on the playground

Some of my fondest recollections of growing up in Uniontown center around recess and going to the city playgrounds. So many important life lessons were learned there. I played Foursquare at recess, carefully following the rules of the game. When you reached Square A, the highest ...

Sometimes malarkey can cause a kerfuffle

With the changing of the guard in Washington, D.C., on the near horizon, it seemed only fitting that I dedicate a little time to words that we will not be hearing very often after our current president retires to his home in Delaware. Seriously, this is not hyperbole. No one definitively ...

When Donald Trump was president, he flipped the Republican PartyĢƵ stance on free trade. Historically, Republicans had been the party of manufacturers and favored tariffs to protect their industries from foreign competition. After World War II, when the manufacturing bases of our ...

Why local journalism matters

I kick off every morning by checking the local and regional sports scores in a newsletter emailed to my smartphone by my hometown newspaper. I then scroll through a feed of breaking news. This information matters to my family and me. It is a compilation of Pittsburgh-area news I cannot get ...

I ran for Congress in PennsylvaniaĢƵ 14th Congressional District for many reasons: to return the health care decisions of women to them; to strengthen unions; to make education affordable; and, as a veteran myself, to advocate for my fellow service members. After winning the Democratic ...

As the 13th-century Italian poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri ("Dante") once wrote, “From a little spark may burst a flame.” We are here at a time when we have access to every piece of information ever compiled. We hold our electronic devices that beam transmissions into outer space ...