Politics
September 8, 2025
WHAT DO SOLAR FARMS have in common with fracking, strip clubs, halfway houses and landfills? On the surface, it might be hard to see. Solar farms and fracking couldn’t be more different, with one prom...
What makes Trump’s power grab different?
Politics
September 6, 2025
For many, the evidence is in: Donald Trump wants to be an autocrat. If you haven’t read an op-ed or heard a radio, TV or podcast commentator make that case, it’s probably because you’ve tried hard to ...
Politics
September 6, 2025
A new community pharmacy is coming to the Mon Valley, and that’s great news for many people who were affected by the closures of Rite Aid pharmacies. Penn Highlands Healthcare announced Wednesday plan...
Politics
September 5, 2025
EVERY 10 YEARS, America asks the people to stand up and be counted. This is not about statistics. It’s not keeping score. It is about representation. Congress’ two chambers are populated in different ...
Killing science costs lives
Politics
September 5, 2025
Donald Trump has embraced the slogan MAHA — Make America Healthy Again — but his policies are doing exactly the opposite. Fears are growing in the medical world that his war on science and research wi...
Politics
Just stop
September 5, 2025
To the Editor: I would like to say that I first came to the United States in 1937 and have all forms to prove it in case I ask something I shouldn’t and would end up in another country. I would simply...
Politics
September 4, 2025
THE BUDGET OF MOST AMERICANS is a delicate balancing act. You know what you have coming in and what should be going out. A decrease on one side or an increase on the other can throw it out of whack. T...
My immigrant friend
Politics
September 4, 2025
one of the When best writers on anti-white racism feels the need to write a column about a noble immigrant, we have to wonder if America’s ethno-masochism has gone too far. Has it been mandated by law...
Three Democratic governors form a health alliance in rebuke of Trump administration
Politics
By By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press 
September 4, 2025
SEATTLE (AP) — The Democratic governors of Washington, Oregon and California announced Wednesday that they created an alliance to safeguard health policies, believing the Trump administration is putti...
Hyperpoliticized teachers unions
Politics
September 3, 2025
About 70% of the nation’s public school teachers belong to a union or employees’ association. The two largest teachers unions, the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of T...
Politics
September 3, 2025
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Security, sovereignty, tariffs, trade, drugs and migration — all hot-button issues for the Trump administration and its neighbors in the Western Hemisphere — will top Secretary of S...
Politics
September 3, 2025
WHO SHOULD BE HELD LIABLE when a person’s biometric data — their facial features, voice or fingerprints — is misused? Illinois is home to some of the strongest consumer privacy regulations in the coun...
Europe in the balance?
Politics
September 2, 2025
Almost weekly in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, and Germany, a sensational assault committed by an illegal migrant — often enjoying some sort of state support or with prior arrests for t...
Politics
September 2, 2025
KIDS ARE BACK IN SCHOOL. Football is in full swing. Pumpkin spice lattes are heralding the start of fall. And once more, the rules about mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania are being juggled — tossed in t...