Bride-to-be has given mixed signals to her inner circle
Opinion
July 18, 2026
DEAR ABBY: I have two best friends going back to third grade (we’re in our 30s now) and one older sister. I’m the last in my friend group to get married. My fiancee and I are eloping this summer. We a...
Opinion
July 17, 2026
CONCERNS ARE RISING IN THE MON VALLEY and across Pennsylvania over the rapid development of large-scale data centers, as rumors of property being sold in Rostraver Township in Westmoreland County and ...
The two Lindsey Grahams
Opinion, Politics
July 17, 2026
PAWLEYS ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA — Sen. Lindsey Graham once called Joe Biden “as good a man as God ever created.” Years later, he described Donald Trump — who derided and demeaned Biden — as “not far be...
The inhumanity of surrogacy
Opinion
July 17, 2026
Asame-sex couple in Canada is currently suing the surrogate who made their son possible. The woman refused an abortion when a cleft lip was discovered on the unborn child she was carrying. Things do g...
Illness, death and turmoil change face of GOP Senate
Opinion, Politics
July 16, 2026
One of the colder aspects of life in Washington politics is that the death of an important person often results, before much grieving is done, in a frenzy of speculation about who will get the unfortu...
Opinion
July 16, 2026
A BRAND-NEW BMW 2 SERIES Gran Coupe is a sporty little entry into the world of luxury vehicles with a starting price of $42,000. That is less than the cost of one year at Penn State for a Pennsylvania...
Opinion, Politics
By By COLLIN BINKLEYAND BILL BARROW Associated Press 
July 16, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will deliver a primetime address this week that he says will include a focus on elections, suggesting he could revisit long-debunked conspiracy theories about ...
Opinion
July 15, 2026
AVERAGE PENNSYLVANIANS JUGGLE financial obligations every day. That doesn’t mean just earning money and paying bills. It means doing it in a timely manner. If that doesn’t happen, banks and bill colle...
Opinion, Politics
By By MELISSA GOLDIN Associated Press 
July 15, 2026
Sen. Lindsey Graham’s unexpected death on Saturday night fueled baseless speculation on social media that his passing was the result of a criminal action. Among the onslaught were posts that falsely a...
Opinion, Politics
July 15, 2026
By David Shribman Last month, the Supreme Court permitted Donald Trump to remove members of regulatory agencies and to curtail efforts of migrants to win asylum in the United States. In the last sever...
Mamdani’s embittered July 4 rant to America
Opinion, Politics
July 14, 2026
Zohran Mamdani, New York’s self-described socialist mayor, could not resist using the nation’s 250th anniversary celebration to trash the very country that he and his parents voluntarily sought out. A...
Opinion
$ 4.7 billion plan is more than a wish list
July 14, 2026
WHEN IT COMES TO TRANSPORTATION, planning is a long-term game. A road can be found dangerous years before anything is done about it. A bridge can be a known problem long before the studies and designs...
Opinion, Politics
July 14, 2026
To the Editor: A lot of people don’t believe our country has a future. A guy picks up his AR-15 and shoots people. Used to be that guy would offer a ringing defense of his actions at his trial, like A...
Opinion
July 13, 2026
DRIVING ON THE PARKWAY is one of those necessary evils of Pittsburgh living. Whether it’s the inexplicable traffic stacking up at a tunnel or a death-defying lane change to reach an exit, the hurdles ...
Opinion
July 11, 2026
To the Editor: Your July 2 editorial, “No patriotism in the Pa. House?” is as wrong as it is misleading, so I am compelled to offer an alternative opinion. My opinion is shaped by my perspective as ha...
The right and left need to control the radicals in their own parties
Opinion, Politics
July 11, 2026
It’s starting to sound like we’re in the middle of the Spanish Civil War. For those of you who forgot, the Spanish Civil War was the great prequel to World War II, in which the combatants were proxies...
Opinion
July 11, 2026
A big thank you to all of the volunteers, donors, organizations and anyone else who had a part in community Fourth of July fireworks celebrations and holiday festivals around the area. Community firew...
Opinion
July 10, 2026
THE WESTMORELAND COUNTY DISTRICT Attorney’s office and the Monessen police department found themselves in “unchartered territory” when they “forced to execute a search warrant” Wednesday on the Washin...
Red hats to red hate
Opinion, Politics
July 10, 2026
Donald Trump has gone from red hats to red hate. With his popularity stuck below 40% in most polls, the president knows that if the fall elections become a referendum on his record, Republicans will l...
Celebrating the treasures we are given
Opinion
July 10, 2026
Birthday, Happy America! It was 100 degrees as the sun was setting and a toddler with red curls was running toward the Ferris wheel on the National Mall, part of the national State Fair for America’s ...