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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 ...

Politics and failure

Politics is the only profession of which I am aware in which competence doesn't seem to matter. One can fail miserably; one can be corrupt and one can get away with crimes that if committed by someone outside of elective office, arrest, prosecution and a stint in jail would be the result. Yet ...

It's been nearly 250 years since Elizabeth Gilmore Berry and her sister, Ann, served as frontline nurses for Gen. George Washington's army at Valley Forge, during the brutal winter of 1777-78. The teens had emigrated to the American colonies a year earlier. Berry, who married Continental ...

The truth about Trump’s birthday bash

In light of my recent Substack post about Trump's plans for a Trump rally on the mall to celebrate the start of America's 250th birthday festivities -- designed, in his words, for "patriots" and promising to be "wild" -- several of you wanted to know more about how it's being planned and paid ...