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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

ONCE UPON A TIME, there was a small, regional airport in Westmoreland County. It had steady passenger traffic, popular leisure routes and a loyal base of travelers who appreciated skipping the long dr...

THE MON VALLEY HAS SETTLED INTO the long, bleak days of winter. That’s why we want to share our annual reminder to check out our many local libraries. It wasn’t that long ago that a trip to the public...

Something good has happened in American politics. Pro-life single-issue voters do not have to vote for Republicans anymore. The Republican Party in its platform decided during the last presidential el...

WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. Ask most people to name when those words were spoken, and they may say the Declaration of Independence. They are not wrong. Tho...

Adecade ago, a famous and successful investor told me that “integrity lowers the cost of capital.” We were talking about Donald Trump at the time, and this Wall Street wizard was explaining why then-c...