Hail to the truth-tellers
Opinion, Politics
January 30, 2026
After two American citizens were gunned down by ICE agents in Minneapolis, Sen. Bill Cassidy, a conservative Republican from Louisiana, called for a “a full joint federal and state investigation” and ...
Does America have the resolve to deport illegal border crossers?
Opinion, Politics
January 29, 2026
The United States experienced a mass incursion of illegal border crossers in the years 2021 to 2025. Estimates vary, but in that period at least 9 million people entered the U.S. illegally. Rather tha...
Opinion, Politics
By By JAMES ENGEL TribLive 
January 29, 2026
President Donald Trump threw his support behind Republican Stacy Garrity on Tuesday night as she aims to unseat Gov. Josh Shapiro as Pennsylvania governor. In an evening Truth Social post, Trump calle...
Opinion, Politics
January 29, 2026
U.S. SEN. DAVID MCCORMICK is among Republicans calling for a full accounting in the Minneapolis death of Alex Pretti, 37, a Veterans Administration intensive care nurse who was shot during an encounte...
Opinion
By By MATT OTT Associated press 
January 28, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer confidence declined sharply in January, hitting the lowest level since 2014 as Americans grow increasingly concerned about their financial prospects. The Conference Boa...
Opinion
January 28, 2026
BY THE TIME THE SNOW BEGINS to fall, the most important decisions already have been made. When it’s time to clear the driveway, it’s too late to buy a shovel. You can see that after a massive winter s...
Let the states try it
Opinion, Politics
January 28, 2026
JUPITER, Fla. — Almost a century ago, in a famous Supreme Court dissent, Justice Louis Brandeis provided an enduring definition of the role of states in the American political system. They were, in a ...
Thank you to the snowplow drivers and first responders
Opinion
MVI Editorial
January 27, 2026
IT CAN BE SAID THAT BEING A SNOWPLOW driver is a thankless job. That’s why we need to be a little more thankful for the dozens of drivers who worked 12-hour shifts, some longer, in the Mon Valley and ...
Opinion
January 27, 2026
To the Editor: I am very tired of reading Letters to the Editor, week after week, condemning everything Donald J. Trump does. He was elected president, in a fair election, so please quit your complain...
Mourning in America
Opinion, Politics
January 27, 2026
Editor’s note: While columnist Victor Davis Hanson is on leave, we will be substituting his weekly column with syndicated American Voices columnist Robert B. Reich. Today we mourn the death-by-executi...
Life marches on
Opinion
January 27, 2026
There’s a pro-abortion idea going around that the pro-life movement doesn’t care about babies after they are born. It’s a lie. Every January, the pro-life cause hosts a March for Life in Washington, D...
Opinion, Politics
January 26, 2026
“DID YOU SEE ON ‘THE PITT’…?” It’s becoming a regular refrain after the HBO Max medical series airs Thursdays. Each episode, set in a fictional Pittsburgh hospital, becomes a scavenger hunt of familia...
Why Trump is failing
Opinion, Politics
January 23, 2026
Donald Trump has called 2025 “the greatest first year” of any president, but a majority of Americans strongly disagree: In the latest CNN poll, 58% describe that year as a “failure.” To hardcore MAGA ...
Opinion
January 23, 2026
THE WESTMORELAND COUNTY SHERIFF is asking a judge to rescind a 2006 court order that requires sheriff’s deputies to transport county inmates to and from magisterial district courts, claiming it could ...
Minnesota and the battle to cripple ICE
Opinion, Politics
January 22, 2026
You’ve seen videos of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers struggling to apprehend illegal immigrants in Minneapolis and elsewhere around the country. Many of those immigrants have criminal re...
Opinion
January 22, 2026
INDIANA UNIVERSITY of Pennsylvania and the University of Pittsburgh are spending nearly $5 million to teach students how to talk to one another. IUP received a $2.29 million federal grant to create a ...
Opinion, Politics
January 22, 2026
To the Editor: The pictures coming out of Minneapolis are awful. ICE’s indiscriminant violence makes everyone vulnerable. We know who is responsible. It ends with Trump. Why is this happening? It has ...
Opinion, Politics
Presidents and
January 21, 2026
To the Editor: President Donald Trump and his band of cohorts have completed one history-making year of service to the American people. One year down and three unpredictable years remaining. The first...
Things are heating up in the Arctic
Opinion, Politics
January 21, 2026
Donald Trump and his top lieutenants believe there is no such thing as climate change. Donald Trump and his top lieutenants are worried sick about how the melting of the Arctic polar ice cap is openin...