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Cheers: More than 300 islands make up the Pacific nation of Fiji, located just over the International Dateline, and itĢƵ fairly isolated – more than 2,000 miles from Australia, 3,000 miles from Hawaii and more than 5,000 miles from the U.S. West Coast. It may not be a place that many ...

LETTER: Stand up for democracy

On February 26, 1983, as a newly minted 2nd lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps, I raised my right hand and swore that I would support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Donald Trump also swore a similar oath when he was inaugurated in ...

EDITORIAL: ThereĢƵ no good reason to ban lab-grown meat

Tucking into a steak thatĢƵ been whipped up in a laboratory sounds like something out of one of those dystopian sci-fi films from the 1970s that would have once been relegated to late-night TV or the dustier corners of the video store. But the possibility that a steak could come from a ...

Cheers & Jeers

Cheers: Cheers to the area's three most-followed NCAA Division-I football programs. Penn State and Pitt both have started the season 5-0, and West Virginia is 3-2 with its only losses coming to the Nittany Lions and Panthers. This past Saturday, Penn State fought off UCLA, 27-11, at Beaver ...

We should welcome Haitians who ‘just want to belong’

When you see Ku Klux Klan literature from a century ago, with its exhortations that “the purity of the white blood must be maintained” and that “we must keep this a white manĢƵ country,” itĢƵ easy to feel a certain sense of moral superiority. We have, without question, traveled ...

Cheers & Jeers

Cheers: Cheers to Southmoreland quarterback Anthony Smith for throwing four touchdown passes in the Scotties' 31-14 Interstate Conference football victory over visiting Derry last Friday night. Smith, only a freshman, connected with Elliot Premus on TD tosses of 10 and 30 yards and also threw ...