Politics
November 25, 2025
A MANUFACTURING COMPANY wants to expand. It makes announcements. And when the big news comes, there is another disclosure. The federal government is along for the ride. That might sounds like the U.S....
Real religious persecution
Politics
November 25, 2025
At an event held to bring attention to religious persecution in the world earlier this fall, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto in Nigeria, said: “Designating my country, N...
The embarrassments of ideology
Politics
November 25, 2025
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is a euphemism for a rigid racialist theology. It deductively postulates that a large percentage of the population is oppressed by racism and sexism, mostly by w...
In the Netherlands, a lesson in American history
Politics
November 24, 2025
For nearly two years, the American Cemetery in Margraten, The Netherlands — solemn site of more than 8,300 graves of Americans who died freeing Europe from Nazi rule — displayed commemorative panels h...
Politics
November 24, 2025
WHY CAN’T PENNSYLVANIA just have transparent government? Why is it so hard for the people to know who really is paying for the laws, the lawmakers and the influence? For nine years, March on Harrisbur...
Politics
By By JILL COLVIN Associated Press 
November 24, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — There was a time when presidential hopefuls played coy about their ambitions, crisscrossing the country under the guise of helping other candidates and deflecting when pushed on their ...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor, former Trump loyalist, says she is resigning
Politics, World Briefly
November 22, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a once-loyal supporter of President Donald Trump who has become a critic, said Friday she is resigning from Congress in January. Greene, in a ...
Hits & Misses
Politics
November 22, 2025
Congratulations and a big thank you to the organizers and volunteers who staged last night’s Merry & Bright holiday celebration in Monongahela. As usual, the volunteers and organizers found a way to u...
Politics
By By ALI SWENSON Associated Press 
November 22, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent a recent Wednesday showered in praise from the vice president and health technology CEOs at a glitzy “Make America Healthy Again” event in Washington, desig...
Presidents can no longer be trusted with pardons
Politics
November 22, 2025
O urs is a system of “checks and balances.” The president can do this or that, but the courts and Congress can put a stop to it (depending on the circumstances and relevant rules). When the courts rul...
News, Politics
November 21, 2025
NO ONE LIKES IT WHEN A SCHOOL is closed. It’s disruptive for students and sometimes for entire communities. Yet sometimes, closing a school is unavoidable and, in the long run, can be the right thing ...
A very big deal
Politics
November 21, 2025
If there was an award for courage and honor in politics, it should go to a stalwart band of Republicans in the Indiana state Senate who have resisted enormous pressure from President Trump and rejecte...
Politics
Letter to the Editor
November 21, 2025
To the Editor: As an Elizabeth Forward taxpayer, I feel like I’m watching our community write its own obituary — not for buildings, but for its financial future. In three years, approximately 80–85% o...
Politics
$ 1M stolen, no jail time is a betrayal of justice — and police officers
November 20, 2025
SOMETIMES WHEN POLICE officers are accused of misconduct, it can be difficult to break through the wall of support — or at the very least, the wall of silence — that surrounds them. To a degree, that’...
Jeffrey Epstein files cover-up in disarray
Politics
November 20, 2025
This week, President Trump’s uncanny political instincts resulted in a near-unanimous congressional resolution forcing his administration, against its collective will, to release the Epstein files. Th...
Politics
By By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press 
November 20, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed a bill to compel the Justice Department to make public its case files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a potentially far-reaching deve...
Epstein’s resentment toward Donald Trump
Politics
November 19, 2025
There’s no doubt Jeffrey Epstein thought he was a very, very smart guy. “He always thought he was the smartest person in the room,” said one associate. Another said Epstein “thought he was smarter tha...
Politics
November 19, 2025
EVERY NOVEMBER, SCHOOLS and communities across the country come together to celebrate American Education Week, which started Monday and continues through Friday. It is a time to honor the people who m...
Politics
By By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press 
November 19, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Both the House and Senate acted decisively Tuesday to pass a bill to force the Justice Department to publicly release its files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a remar...