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<strong>Cheers:</strong> The Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall is returning to the area this weekend and will include a 9/11 memorial wall to pay tribute to those who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The exhibit will be arriving today at Brownsville Area ...

OP-ED: It’s time to put the charter schools debate into context

As the debate over cyber charter schools intensifies, Pennsylvanians deserve both facts and context in order to come to informed conclusions. Unfortunately, a recent story in the Observer-Reporter and ĢƵ, “Superintendents continue to call for cyber charter school reform,” has ...

OP-ED: Outdated township construction law costly to taxpayers

The Pennsylvania law governing township construction projects is as old as Henry FordĢƵ Model T, operates as ineffectively as an orchestra without a conductor and equates to a 10% tax on commonwealth residents.When township governments in Pennsylvania engage in a construction project, they ...

OP-ED: Drew Gilpin Faust grew into ‘necessary trouble’

WASHINGTON - This nation is awash with heated and ungenerous judgments about its past and about Americans who lived before we ascended to todayĢƵ sunny uplands of enlightenment. So, for your final summer read, try something tonally different: Drew Gilpin FaustĢƵ memoir “Necessary Trouble: ...

OP-ED: Vivek Ramaswamy’s Jan. 6 charade

Vivek Ramaswamy thinks Mike Pence failed.The former vice president is a MAGA villain for doing his constitutional duty on Jan. 6, 2021, so Ramaswamy has to find a way to wiggle out of endorsing his conduct on that day, no matter how convoluted or inane.On “Meet the Press” recently, he went ...

EDITORIAL: Pennsylvania’s education funding should be rebuilt

Pennsylvanians have spent years — decades, really — begging the state to find a better way to fund education.School districts in the Keystone State operate primarily on real estate taxes. An April report from advocacy group PA Schools Work estimates that 84% of the 500 school districts in ...