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OP-ED: News that makes you sick

In 2016, the prolific author and economist Thomas Sowell gave up his syndicated column after a quarter-century. A few months later, I asked him how it felt. He was delighted. The best part, he confided, was not having to read the news so assiduously every day.Hoo boy. “I feel ya,” as Ted ...

Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

More children were murdered in their school last week.Covenant School, Nashville, Tennessee – 6 dead, 1 injured.That was followed by the usual flood of tearful “thoughts and prayers;” feverish speculation about who the culprit might be; more tragic pictures of schoolchildren getting ...

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 ...