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OP-ED: Pro-lifers should change tactics

This November, Pennsylvanians will elect a new judge to the stateĢƵ Supreme Court. The contest is shaping up as another donnybrook pitting pro-life and pro-choice forces against one another. It doesn’t require a Ph.D. in political science to guess how this one is going to turn out. ...

Ignoring the unfulfilled dreams of Martin Luther King Jr.

When the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. spoke at Mt. Rose Baptist Church in Uniontown in July of 1963, he brought a powerful message with him.“We have come a long, long way, but we have got a long, long way to go,” he told the packed congregation on Grant Street.A month later (on Aug. 28), his ...

Is Biden too old for another term?

Most men Joe BidenĢƵ age are retired gents putting on the green or puttering in the garden, or trudging off to Walmart or Walgreens to get their meds. But Joe Biden is not like the rest of us.Elected to the Senate at the age of 30 in 1972, two years later he was telling a group of Washington ...

Wrong-way crashes a horror on our highways

Last Sunday morning, 24-year-old Tyler Smith of Roscoe was killed on the Mon-Fayette Expressway near Elco. The office of the Washington County coroner reported later that day that Smith was traveling south in the northbound lane of the toll road when he hit another vehicle and injured its ...