One month after campaign’s final convulsion, a moment of peace
Politics
November 27, 2024
It seems like years, but it was just one month ago that the media effort to stop President-elect Donald Trump reached its final, most desperate phase in the closing days of the 2024 campaign. The Atla...
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Reality setting in
November 27, 2024
To the Editor: Have you ever read the Constitution of the United States from beginning to end? You should. It’s the foundational document that has underpinned the greatest democratic republic in the w...
Politics
November 26, 2024
WITH THE THURSDAY CONCESSION of U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, Pennsylvania’s 2024 election season effectively comes to a close. Republican businessman Dave McCormick has already gone to Washington for new-sena...
The Trump counterrevolution is a return to sanity
Politics
November 26, 2024
We are witnessing a historic counterrevolution after Trump’s victory, far different from his first election in 2016. The orthodox and the supposed scripted future are now suspect. And they are likely ...
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Everyone will suffer
November 26, 2024
To the Editor: The Monessen War Veterans Trust was established on May 19, 2011, by the Thomas McKee American Legion Post 28 and the Allison Lescanic Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1190 under the direct...
Class is harder line to cross than color
Politics
November 25, 2024
Coretta Scott King can rest easy. She’s earned it. The Civil Rights Movement, which she embodied in the decades after her husband’s assassination, transformed not just the South but the nation. In pay...
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November 25, 2024
IF NIPPON STEEL really wants to buy American, it should start by selling the union on the deal. Right now, the members aren’t buying it. The Japanese company’s $14.9 billion offer to acquire Pittsburg...
Hits & Misses
Politics
November 23, 2024
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...
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By By MEG KINNARD Associated Press 
November 23, 2024
MARTIN, Tenn. (AP) — Losing a Cabinet nominee to the confirmation process isn’t unheard of for incoming presidents — including for Donald Trump when he was elected the first time. Matt Gaetz’s decisio...
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By By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press 
November 23, 2024
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his past negotiations with the United States only confirmed Washington’s “unchangeable” hostility toward his country and described his nu...
Politics
November 22, 2024
THERE ARE PLACES where the cultural mix of a community makes you expect to hear a chorus of different languages. Along the southern border, Spanish makes sense. So might a smattering of Portuguese or ...
This is a test
Politics
November 22, 2024
Asolemn voice used to break into programming on radio and TV and proclaim, “This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System.” That’s exactly what’s happening today in the political world. Sane voices...
The only missing nominee is Jabba the Hutt
Politics
November 22, 2024
That’s some victory party Donald Trump has thrown for himself down in Florida. The video from Mar-a-Lago resembles the inter-planetary bar scene in “Star Wars,” although none of the great man’s Cabine...
Politics
November 21, 2024
PENNSYLVANIA NEEDS an answer — once and for all — on mail-in ballots. The ability to use the voting alternative without a reason like being out of town or having a medical condition was given blanket ...
The enemy of my enemy is RFK
Politics
November 21, 2024
Remember when Anthony “I Am the Science” Fauci showed up for congressional hearings wearing two masks, knowing full well that masks didn’t prevent the transmission of COVID? With great leadership like...
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The message
November 20, 2024
To the Editor: Such name-calling, negativism, and hatred spewing from the pen of a recent writer prompted my first “Letter to the Editor.” Value judgments, hatred like that, and quoting Scripture (out...