Amid the boredom of a non-Christian pope’s death and the media’s obsession with the Signal messaging app, I found myself reading about Pearl Harbor this week. It seems that as hell rained down, Marine...

PENN STATE IS MAKING DECISIONS about which of 12 Commonwealth Campuses the university might close. The decision has been dangled since February. President Neeli Bendapudi announced then that she had a...

After all the talking and arguing about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the illegal border-crosser and alleged gang member deported by the United States and now imprisoned in El Salvador, there is still a funda...

To the Editor: It has been 10 weeks since this administration has been in place. We are now in the “find out” phase of broken promises and failed policies. Egg prices still obscenely high, even though...

“The flames rose. So did our people.” Instead of sleeping in on Saturday morning, Darcy Olsen and her four children woke to their attic on fire. Her people came to help. Darcy founded the Center for t...

WHILE THE DEATH OF A POPE is always a time of mourning for Catholics, the passing of Pope Francis, 88, is being felt more deeply by many outside the church and from around the globe. Francis, the firs...

Harvard University has rejected various demands of a presidential commission on antisemitism. The task force wants to persuade Harvard to ensure Jewish students on its campus are no longer harassed, o...

Pennsylvania and federal open records laws don’t require elected officials to release their work calendars to the public. STATE COLLEGE — Since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, multiple protests...

This is an era when the great certainties that ruled American life for nearly three generations are being questioned more deeply, more widely and more seriously than at any time in decades. When the C...

IMAGINE FOR A MOMENT having your whole life derailed by a traffic ticket. You decided to study business in Mississippi, and, after getting that degree, you applied to graduate school. You looked at al...

Meetings in local government next week Every week, the Mon Valley Independent editorial staff will share upcoming government meetings around the Mid-Mon Valley. If there’s an item or other event of pu...

Kudos to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. She managed to generate the most negatively iconic photo of a Democrat since Michael Dukakis wore a helmet atop a tank. Whitmer, long considered a promising pr...

Happy Easter to all of our readers and neighbors throughout the Mon Valley. We hope this annual season of rebirth and growth leads to wonderful things for all of you. Let’s celebrate the holiday and t...

To the Editor: Will you, Monessen resident, go to the polls this coming November and give Mr. Mozer another four years as mayor of Monessen? Are you satisfied with what he has done or not done for the...

After two terms in the United States Senate, Gary Peters is calling it quits. “I will say, over these last few years, it gets harder every single year,” the Michigan Democrat told CNN. “The middle is ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday inserted himself directly into trade talks with Japa- nese officials, a sign of the high stakes for the Unit ed States after its tariffs rattled t...

A PENNSYLVANIA COURT has decided the people don’t need to know about communications between state lawmakers and lobbyists who court them for influence. Nonprofit newsroom Spotlight PA asked for commun...

It’s understandable that Democrats are fuming about Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency ferreting out waste, fraud and abuse, inasmuch as the people committing the waste, fraud and abuse a...

DURING PASSOVER, the Jewish people remember the liberation of their ancestors from slavery in Egypt. It is a time of reflection and rejoicing. It is marked by solemnity and celebration. On Saturday, G...

To the Editor: In “No pain, no gain” ( MVI, 4-9-25) the letter writer makes a valiant effort to put lipstick on Trump’s tariff war with China. He turns history upside down to imply China betrayed our ...