Ann’s 1-step guide to saving North Carolina
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December 4, 2025
the media Although are not typically interested in helping Republicans win elections, they seem awfully concerned that Donald Trump’s immigration raids in Charlotte, North Carolina, could hurt the GOP...
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By By CHRISTOPHER BAXTER Spotlight PA 
December 4, 2025
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December 4, 2025
EDUCATION IS BUILT ON THE BASICS. ABCs become words, then sentences, then books. Counting becomes adding, then long division, then algebra. If you don’t get a good grounding at the primary level, ever...
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December 3, 2025
A FIRE HYDRANT IS PART of the landscape, something your eye may just slide past. Like a light post or mailbox, it is expected to be just off the curb of a street. That makes them easy to ignore or to ...
Requiem for a scandal
Politics
December 3, 2025
Nearly four years ago, on Jan. 18, 2022, this newsletter wrote about a frenzy that was sweeping the anti-Trump world. It had to do with a novel theory regarding the 2020 presidential election dispute....
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By By LORNE COOK Associated Press 
December 3, 2025
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte brushed off fresh concern Tuesday about the United States’ commitment to the military organization on the eve of a meeting of allied foreign ministers...
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December 2, 2025
ABCs BECOME WORDS, then sentences, then books. Counting becomes adding, then long division, then algebra. If you don’t get a good grounding at the primary level, everything gets harder until the learn...
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December 2, 2025
To the Editor: If you didn’t throw away the Wednesday, November 26 copy of The Mon Valley Independent (MVI), turn to page B6 and there you will find the article “Thankful for life’s big—and small —ble...
Can the ‘Lost Generation’ be found?
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December 2, 2025
The current generation “Z” — those now roughly between 13 and 28 years old — is becoming our 21st-century version of the “Lost Generation.” Members of Gen Z are often nicknamed “Zoomers,” a term used ...
Politics
December 1, 2025
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE when you grow up? The older students get, the more complicated the answer can become. By the time they graduate high school, plenty of young adults don’t have a grasp on what th...
As parties entrench, an impasse grows
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December 1, 2025
MARBLEHEAD, Mass. — He helped supply the Continental Army during the early days of the American Revolution. He signed the Declaration of Independence. He shaped the Constitution and the Bill of Rights...
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December 1, 2025
By The Associated Press Northwestern University has agreed to pay $75 million to the U.S. government in a deal with the Trump administration to end a series of investigations and restore hundreds of m...
Hits & Misses
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November 29, 2025
This is one of our favorite times of the year as it begins to look a lot like Christmas throughout the Mon Valley. Belle Vernon and Donora both held celebrations Friday night to welcome the holiday se...
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By By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press 
November 29, 2025
The man accused of shooting two National Guard members in Washington is one of about 76,000 Afghans brought to the United States after the chaotic withdrawal of the U.S. from their country as the Tali...
Leaked ‘wish list’ is hardly America First
Politics
November 29, 2025
Last week, a 28-point “peace plan” for the Russia- Ukraine war surfaced. It was apparently fleshed out in Miami over cocktails by President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, Trump’s special envoy Stev...
Making America poor again
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November 28, 2025
Fox News host Laura Ingraham recently told President Trump that America didn’t need to import foreign workers because “we have plenty of talented people here.” The president then gave an astounding re...