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Echoes of the miners’ Mitchell Day

Ed Yankovich has trouble remembering the last big Mitchell Day celebration. Was it five years ago, 10 years ago? Yankovich, former president of the United Mine Workers district headquartered in Uniontown, was unable to pin it down.“It was somewhere in that period of time,” he said the other ...

More attention should be paid to increasing adult literacy

A lot of attention is being paid to what our children are reading nowadays, turning once sedate classrooms and libraries into battlefields in our countryĢƵ never-ending culture wars.Some overzealous parents and community members have gone on book-banning benders, even though restricting the ...

OP-ED: Guns kill people. Zombie politicians see to it.

Right after a 28-year-old shot six people to death at a small Christian school, Rep. Tim Burchett, a Tennessee Republican, emoted on camera. “Three precious little kids lost their lives,” he said with sad resignation, “and I believe three adults.”Burchett then defended the killerĢƵ ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> Organ donation is life changing. Dunbar resident Keith Lowry knows that firsthand. Earlier this year, Lowry was the 500th person to have a heart transplant performed at Allegheny General Hospital. He returned to AGH this week to kick off ...