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Air pollution still a problem in Pennsylvania

If you walk through cemeteries close to downtown Pittsburgh, two things stand out.First, many headstones are still smeared with the soot that adhered to pretty much everything during the regionÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ industrial heyday. And, at the midpoint of the last century, many residents died in their 40s, ...

Kail bill is complete nonsense

ThereÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ plenty of reason to worry about AmericaÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ commitment to democracy and the rule of law lately. To be more specific, thereÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ plenty of reason to worry about the Republican PartyÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ commitment to democracy and the rule of law.The refusal of the U.S. Senate majority to even hear ...

Diocese faces new decade to right itself

Debate will continue about whether the decade of the 2020s really began on Jan. 1 of this year or whether that actually will occur on Jan. 1, 2021.Either way, the period of time has been traumatic for the Roman Catholic Church here, across Pennsylvania, across the nation and, indeed, around the ...

Electing state judges regionally a bad idea

Pennsylvania is one of only a handful of states that chooses its state judges at the ballot box.And, letÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ face it, even voters who pay close attention to elections often have no idea whom they are putting in these powerful positions.Candidates are constrained on what they can say about ...

Crime is going down, and we should be glad

A natural part of aging is remembering the good things about days gone by and jettisoning the bad.So, for a lot of baby boomers who are now grandparents and – gulp – great-grandparents, itÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ easy to look back on the 1960s as a luminous time when the Beatles were on the radio, Mickey ...

Improved DUI laws necessary

The Southern Alleghenies region is no stranger to repeat drunken-driver arrests, and that doesn’t mean a single repeat offense.There have been drivers here who have compiled even five or more DUI arrests, convictions and/or guilty pleas, but have continued to drive, whether alcohol- or ...