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Can we make America great again?
September 21, 2024
To the Editor: When driving I have used my God-given sight to notice the thousands of new vehicles on the highway, stores full of customers shopping, restaurants full of patrons eating, sports venues ...
Politics
September 21, 2024
The editorial department of the Mon Valley Independent encourages letters to the editor. Letters must be no more than 500 words, must be in good taste and must include the author’s name, town of resid...
The politics of immigration play differently along the US-Mexico border
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By By MORGAN LEE Associated Press 
September 21, 2024
SUNLAND PARK, N.M. (AP) — The politics of immigration look different from the back patio of Ardovino’s Desert Crossing restaurant. That’s where Robert Ardovino sees a Border Patrol horse trailer rumbl...
Agent 00-Zero
Politics
September 19, 2024
After yet another assassination attempt on Donald Trump — or as The New York Times calls it, “what the FBI is calling an assassination attempt” — it’s time for Trump to hire Blackwater to do his secur...
Politics
September 19, 2024
THE OFT-USED PHRASE is “it takes a village to raise a child.” In updated parlance, it isn’t so much a village as it is a volunteer — or lots of volunteers. It is hard to calculate everything in our li...
Politics
September 18, 2024
THE DATING OF BALLOTS in Pennsylvania is a Groundhog Day kind of issue. No, we don’t mean that it pops its head up in February and then crawls back into its burrow to finish a long nap. No, we don’t m...
A Kamala Harris crowd: Big and happy
Politics
September 18, 2024
In the days before Vice President Kamala Harris visited Wilkes- Barre, Pa., on Friday the 13th, some Trump supporters in this northeastern Pennsylvania town speculated that she would have trouble attr...
Allegheny County expects mail-in ballots to start reaching voters in 2 weeks
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By By RYAN DETO TribLive 
September 18, 2024
Pennsylvania ballots for the November general election have been finalized by the state, and voters in Allegheny County can expect mail-in ballots to start arriving the week of Sept. 30, according to ...
A forgettable warped debate
Politics
September 17, 2024
The Sept. 10 presidential debate went down as expected. Summed up, it was Sappy and the Blob pile on Grouchy. The swarmy and evasive Vice President Kamala Harris preened, posed, and proffered empty pl...
Marching for life
Politics
September 17, 2024
The human-rights issue of our lives is abortion. Clearly not everyone sees it that way. It’s buried in euphemisms about women’s health. But unborn children still die. The March for Life happen every J...
Today is National Voter Registration Day
Politics
September 17, 2024
TODAY, WE CELEBRATE National Voter Registration Day — the massive cross-country effort to register voters ahead of the midterm elections. Thousands of national, state and local organizations and volun...
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By By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press 
September 16, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — It was almost time for the presidential debate, but Kamala Harris’ staff thought there was one more thing she needed to know. So less than an hour before the vice president left her ...
Immigrants prove more boon than burden
Politics
September 16, 2024
J.D. Vance is still drawing fire — appropriately so — for his misogynous comments about “childless cat ladies.” When Taylor Swift announced her endorsement of Kamala Harris on Instagram, she signed it...
Politics
September 14, 2024
The editorial department of the Mon Valley Independent encourages letters to the editor. Letters must be no more than 500 words, must be in good taste and must include the author’s name, town of resid...
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September 13, 2024
HOW DO PRESIDENTIAL candidates prepare for a debate? Former president and GOP nominee Donald Trump’s team claimed he didn’t do formal debate prep, but reports also say he sharpened his question-and-an...
Anti-immigrant sentiment is nothing new
Politics
September 13, 2024
Being of Irish Catholic descent, I’ve always been basically pro-immigrant. All eight of my great-grandparents were born in that country, and my family taught me to consider myself “Irish” before Ameri...
Light instead of darkness
Politics
September 13, 2024
During his debate with Kamala Harris, a flustered and frustrated Donald Trump blurted out, “She is Biden.” Harris responded calmly: “Clearly, I am not Joe Biden. And I am certainly not Donald Trump.” ...
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September 12, 2024
THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS kids shouldn’t be using in class. They shouldn’t have guns or knives or bullets. They shouldn’t have drugs or cigarettes or alcohol. They shouldn’t be bringing in anything th...