Iread with sadness in Thursday’s edition of the Mon Valley Independent the passing of John Bennati, who left us at the age of 86. Bennati was a leader at the former The Valley Independent where he ser...

AMONG THE FEW THINGS AMERICANS agree on these days is that housing is too expensive. With a shortfall of at least 3.7 million homes, the obvious solution is to build more. Regrettably, a once-promisin...

Trump has President been pressuring Senate Republicans to trash the filibuster and pass a bill disenfranchising millions of voters and boosting their party’s chances of controlling Congress after next...

IT WOULD BE EASY TO LOOK at the closure of schools such as Triangle Tech and assume demand for skilled trades is slipping. That isn’t what the data shows. National Student Clearinghouse data, in fact,...

President Donald Trump says he finds it insulting to hear critics say he does not have a plan to win the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. “People say he doesn’t have a plan,” Trump told reporters Monday. “I ...

WE HAVE BECOME INURED to the way politics bleeds into everything. Harrisburg and Washington are defined by division. We have come to expect the animosity. In our neighborhoods, it spills over into red...

To the Editor: Trump was obsessed with becoming president but did nothing to prepare himself for the job. He just wasn’t interested in the rest of the world. Defense Secretary Hegseth, a man ripped fr...

Same destination, different country. The nation that dares to send an Orion space vessel on a pioneering orbit around the moon is a far different place from the one that first ventured there and place...

“What is your number?” This is the question Catholic bishops are asking one another, according to Cardinal Robert McElroy of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. He was quoted in a New York Times piece...

NOW THAT SPRING IS HERE and we’ve moved our clocks ahead one hour for Daylight Saving Time, we’d like to make our yearly reminder to the public to make another change that could save their lives. That...

NATO members are not legally required to join any member’s military operations that are not formally sanctioned by the alliance or not aimed at protecting the homelands of the membership. But they oft...

THE ISSUE OF HEALTH AND SAFETY of police officers gets attention. These are the men and women whom communities depend upon in emergencies. They face physical risks, from something as accidental as a c...

Happy Easter to all of our readers and neighbors throughout the Mon Valley. We hope this annual season of rebirth and growth leads to wonderful things for all of you. Let’s celebrate the holiday and t...

When President Trump spoke at the Saudi Future Investment Initiative on Friday, he offered a pristine example of what he calls “the weave.” What detractors take for incontinent verbal rambling is, in ...

To the Editor: “No man is an island” — a familiar quote. John Donne is the author of this prophetic statement. He was an English poet born in the 16th century. Without guidance, support and direction,...

WE DON’T KNOW WHO INVENTED the first wheel. We do know everything that came after it — SUVs and bicycles, gas stations and turnpike exits clustered with fast-food drive-thrus. We know a lot about spac...

Donald Trump frequently floats falsehoods that flout reality. No, the 2020 election was not stolen. No, prices have not gone down. But when he discusses the midterm elections this fall, he can often t...

Democrats sued Wednesday to block President Donald Trump’s latest executive order restricting mail voting, arguing that the U.S. Constitution empowers states and Congress, not the president, to determ...

It seems weird to say, but Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., appears to believe Democrats have honored the memory of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by withholding the pay of Transportation S...

TOKYO (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron called for a ceasefire in the Middle East during a visit to Japan on Wednesday. Macron, who held talks with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, said t...