What’s going on with ActBlue?
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March 12, 2025
The Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue was created more than 20 years ago, in 2004, at a time when Democrats were up in arms over another Republican president, George W. Bush. “In the early 2000s...
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March 12, 2025
ON MONDAY, PENN STATE’S board of trustees sold the naming rights to its most prized piece of real estate for $50 million. The gridiron of grass inside Beaver Stadium is becoming West Shore Home Field....
CD of A Court Monessen
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March 12, 2025
Catholic Daughters of the Americas Court Monessen met Feb. 16 in the Epiphany Church Hall at Epiphany of Our Lord Church in Monessen. The members met before the 10:30 a.m. Mass and Regent Debbie Genem...
MCKEESPORT TIGER TOTS CELEBRATE DR. SEUSS WEEK
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March 12, 2025
Lacey Siess’ child care students in the McKeesport Tiger Tots preschool program made Dr. Seuss Week an unforgettable one. Tiger Tots had a blast celebrating with wacky dress-up days, creative crafts, ...
HUG FOR GOOD LUCK
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March 11, 2025
Monessen High School softball player Joey Hurst got a good luck hug from her cousin, Savannah Wilkerson, 2, of North Charleroi before Monday’s scrimmage at Charleroi Area High School. Jenn Codeluppi /...
BVA students display unique skills in ‘Drowsy Chaperone’
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By LADIMIR GARCIA lgarcia@yourmvi.com 
March 11, 2025
The musical comedy features roller skating, tap dancing and much more. Belle Vernon Area High School students will become stars during this year’s annual spring musical of the “Drowsy Chaperone.” From...
Firefighters able to rescue cat from an unusual spot
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By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
March 11, 2025
A Charleroi woman heard the feline meowing from under the hood of a car. It’s not too often firefighters are called to rescue a cat from a tree, let alone a car engine, but first responders in Charler...
White Oak officer wants to revive K-9 program
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By SARAH PELLIS spellis@yourmvi.com 
March 11, 2025
The department will seek donations and hold fundraisers to help offset the estimated costs. White Oak Officer Jerry Athans proposed bringing back the police department’s K-9 program after more than 20...
Schedule set for farmers markets in Monongahela
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By MICHAEL RICHTER, mrichter@yourmvi.com 
March 11, 2025
The popular event will return June 13 and will continue on Fridays through Sept. 5. The annual Monongahela Farmers Market will make its return to Chess Park this summer with weekly themes, a lineup of...
Charleroi council considers technology improvements
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By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
March 11, 2025
A plan to create digital billboards in the borough was also discussed. Charleroi council will consider options for technology upgrades inside council chambers and potentially advertising throughout th...
Housing authority gets new member
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WESTMORELAND COUNTY
By LADIMIR GARCIA lgarcia@yourmvi.com 
March 11, 2025
Jerry Radebaugh was appointed to the board and Joe Dalfonso was retained. At a March 6 meeting, the Westmoreland County commissioners appointed two members to the Westmoreland County Housing Authority...
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March 11, 2025
A McKeesport man pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of unlawfully possessing a firearm, Acting U.S. Attorney Troy Rivetti announced Monday. Richard L. Edwards Jr., 49, pleaded guilty to one c...
Politics
March 11, 2025
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has threatened it before. It has dangled the string and tried to make us jump. It has coyly set deadlines only to pull back at the last minute. It’s happening! It is! Ha, ha, no...
Five Ukrainian fables
Politics
March 11, 2025
Fable one: Trump is appeasing Russia? Who wiped out the Wagner group in Syria? Who sold offensive weapons to Ukraine first? Who warned Germany not to become dependent on the Russian Nord Stream II dea...
Justice Coney Barrett is not a DEI hire
Politics
March 11, 2025
“Amy Coney Barrett was a DEI appointee.” These days, political parody is next to impossible, because politics is so absurd. Case in point: The above quote is from a post from someone on the right side...
DONATION FOR FARMERS MARKET ENTERTAINMENT
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March 11, 2025
Monongahela Area Revitalization Corp. President George Eckert, at left, is shown presenting a check from the Monongahela Farmers Market to Mark Smith, CEO of the Mon Valley Academy for the Arts, for m...
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March 11, 2025
Port Vue police responded to a report of shots fired early Monday morning. Around 7:15 a.m. police were called to the 300 block of San Jose Drive for a report of numerous shots. By the time police arr...
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By MICHAEL RICHTER, mrichter@yourmvi.com 
March 11, 2025
Nobody was injured during a fire Monday morning in McKeesport, according to fire officials. McKeesport firefighters were called to a duplex on Oxford Drive after reports of a fire. They observed a fir...
Trump loves Gilded Age tariffs. It was a great time for the rich but not for the many
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By By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press 
March 11, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s, when top hats and shirtwaists were fashionable and typhoid fever often killed more so...
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By By ALEX GREEN Harvard Kennedy School 
March 11, 2025
The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. As promised, the second Trump administration has quickly rolled out a slew of policies a...