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The Pennsylvania House of Representatives approved a bill Monday that would restrict the use of cellphones by students in the stateĢƵ schools. The measure would prevent students from having or using a cellphone from “bell-to-bell.” It would require students to secure their phones so that ...

The present breaks the past’s heart

Change is not my best friend. Not since the day my family moved from Wisconsin to California when I was eight. Leaving the land of my grandmother, the skating rink and snowballs in winter, Lake Mendota and the tennis courts in summer, the community garden and all that seemed unfair. The ...

On April 19, 1926, an above-the-fold story in the Pittsburgh Gazette Times detailed the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese's Bishop Hugh Boyle officiating at the dedication of a new church and school in the city's upper-north-side neighborhood off Perrysville Avenue. "The services, which began ...

Normally, I worry that events may overtake a column. But not so with the Iran war. I don't worry about running afoul of a headline or Truth Social post from the president because what is said about the situation is no longer very relevant to the reality. On April 8, Nick Catoggio, my Dispatch ...