Politics
July 2, 2025
PENNSYLVANIA IS TRYING to whisper sweet nothing in the ears of New York businesses. New York State Rep. Zohran Mamdani, a progressive Democrat, presumptively won his party’s nomination for mayor of Ne...
News, Politics
July 1, 2025
INDEPENDENCE DAY and the extended weekend off for many is a great time to celebrate, but no American holiday results in more horror stories. Thousands of people are treated in emergency rooms for fire...
Politics
July 1, 2025
To the Editor: Well, well, well, Donnie finally got the crowd size he always wanted and desired. It’s called protest rallies, which every state had. “Tremendous” amounts of angry anti-Trump folks were...
In the end, everyone hated the Iranian theocracy
Politics
July 1, 2025
It is hard even to digest the incredible train of events of the last few days in the Middle East. Iran had been reduced to an anemic, performance-art missile attack on our base in Qatar — the last Par...
To be free, we must be together
Politics
July 1, 2025
“Avery widespread ailment of our time is the fatigue of living: reality seems to us to be too complex, burdensome, difficult to face.” Maybe it’s because we have a pope now who was born in the United ...
Politics
By By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press 
July 1, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday threw out appellate rulings in favor of transgender people in four states following the justices’ recent decision upholding a Tennessee ban on certain med...
Politics
June 30, 2025
WE TALK A LOT ABOUT TRANSPARENCY. The free flow of information is important. We want government to be accountable to the people for their actions, their spending and their process. When government doe...
What to do about the War Powers Act?
Politics
June 30, 2025
The Ford Edsel. New Coke. The Sony Betamax. Theranos. Google Glass. Yugoslavia. The 1964 Philadelphia Phillies. The “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” musical. The War Powers Act. Of the many great ideas that t...
Politics
June 30, 2025
By ALI SWENSON and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina said Sunday he will not seek reelection next year, an abrupt announcement that came on...
Politics
June 28, 2025
Congratulations to the Mon Valley Initiative for completing a project more than 20 years in the making. On Thursday, more than a dozen residents stopped by an open house held by the Mon Valley Initiat...
Is bombing Iran deja vu all over again?
Politics
June 28, 2025
After a short and successful war with Iraq, President George H.W. Bush claimed in 1991 that “the ghosts of Vietnam have been laid to rest beneath the sands of the Arabian desert.” Bush was referring t...
News, Politics
June 27, 2025
WE’RE NEARING THE END OF JUNE and community events are in full swing. Too often we hear people complain “there is nothing to do here,” but we beg to differ. Every week we publish listings of events — ...
Can Trump be trusted?
Politics
June 27, 2025
Can Donald Trump be trusted? Can we rely on his judgment in a crisis? Those core questions have been raised by the president’s decision to reverse his campaign pledges and attack Iran’s nuclear infras...
Politics
June 26, 2025
THE JOB OF A STATE’S GOVERNOR is to steer the executive ship. The governor takes the laws and budgets passed by the legislators and the departments of the government and finds a way to apply them. Tha...
If illegals are illegal, why are their babies citizens?
Politics
June 26, 2025
On his first day in office — of his second term, not his wasted first term — President Trump signed an executive order ending anchor babies, the practice of treating kids born to illegals on U.S. soil...
Cuomo concedes to Mamdani in NYC mayoral primary race
Latest News, Politics
June 25, 2025
Mamdani would be the city’s first Muslim and Indian American mayor. NEWYORK (AP) — Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo conceded New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani as the 33-year old mem...
Politics
June 25, 2025
WHEN SEVERAL MON VALLEY school boards voted to raise property taxes this year, the majority of district leaders attributed them due to rising costs associated with cyber/charter school expenses. This ...
Politics
Trump’s first-term failures
June 25, 2025
To the Editor: Being able to finally retire at the age of 73 should be a time of great celebration, but again I’ve been trumped. Again. Will I have my Social Security and Medicare, due to his Big Beau...