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OP-ED: Stand with pregnancy support centers

Gov. Josh Shapiro made clear last month upon terminating its contract with Real Alternatives that protecting a “womanĢƵ freedom to choose” necessarily requires unilaterally ending programs that promote the choice for life by fully educating women on fetal development and all the options ...

Lauren BoebertĢƵ roaming hands

Lauren Opal Boebert is a Republican firebrand with a never-ending appetite for attention.She represents ColoradoĢƵ 3rd Congressional District, with no shortage of provocative political views.Last February, Boebert, and her fellow troubled congressman, George Santos of New York, were among the ...

Mine workers and the UAW strike

On an April day in 1937, John D. Mallory, “demonstration chairman,” and John P. Depto, toastmaster of that yearĢƵ Mitchell Day celebration for coal miners in Brownsville, messaged mine workers’ president John L. Lewis.At the parade and later at the banquet highlighting the April 1 ...

OP-ED: Sex and the city: Political edition

The Republican Party, the party that for years has styled itself as the party of “family values” and “traditional marriage” has lost all credibility on these issues.Not only do polls show a huge majority of Republicans supporting the thrice-married, serial adulterer Donald Trump, but ...

Book censors undercut libraries, communities

Pennsylvania is the second-largest producer of natural gas in the nation, with Texas out in front.Texas and Pennsylvania are, unfortunately, ranked first and second in another area: the number of challenges made to library books.According to a report released this month by the American Library ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> Kudos to Barry Couser and Judi Wyndroski, who have turned their morning strolls through Belle Vernon Cemetery in North Belle Vernon into a quest to honor military veterans. A month or so ago, Couser noticed a damaged flag on one of the graves ...