If anyone knows that President Donald Trump, for all his bluster, can mean what he says, it is the Iranians. Trump is the president who took out the powerful Qasem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Quds ...

THE PENNSYLVANIA HOUSE OF Representatives is giving people reason to be optimistic. The lawmakers gave their approval Tuesday to the 2026-27 budget. The good news? This is the earliest a budget has mo...

To the Editor: Are we getting closer to the downfall of President Donald Trump? Will it be sooner or later? By recent actions, remarks, unexplainable activities and lack of accountability, Donald Trum...

Donald Trump, president of the United States, meet Pyrrhus, king of Epirus. The leader of the great military force and industrial powerhouse of 2026 who went to war with mighty bombers, missiles and d...

TODAY IS EARTH DAY. What began in 1970 as a grassroots environmental movement in the United States has since grown into the largest secular observance in the world, involving more than a billion peopl...

THIS WEEK, MON VALLEY LIBRARIES will join libraries across the country in celebrating National Library Week, a time to remind the public about the contribution libraries, librarians and library worker...

The prognosis of the Iran war is now so couched in politics and so warped by the American Left that the public has grown tired and wants it all to go away. But in truth, the situation is so fluid that...

THERE ARE SOME JOBS you just can’t have forever. In Pennsylvania, that’s written into law in some places and left entirely to voters in others. Governors are limited to two terms. That wasn’t always t...

Viktor Orban, the proudly “illiberal” prime minister of Hungary, beloved by various New Right nationalists and MAGA American intellectuals, was crushed at the polls this weekend. Over the last decade ...

Tourism pumped nearly $765 million into Washington County last year while helping support more than 8,600 jobs, according to a new report that points to growing benefits for Mon Valley communities. Th...

ON APRIL 7, A PROCESS 20 YEARS in the making began. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers started excavation at a Parks Township nuclear waste site. This isn’t like other abandoned industrial sites. In Wes...

Vice President JD Vance, a recent convert to Catholicism, berated Pope Leo XIV about his doctrinal duties. The Supreme Pontiff, Vance lectured, should “stick to matters of morality” and avoid politics...

IT’S OFTEN SAID A PARENT’S LOVE can’t be measured, but a recent survey on youth sports may come close. For each day a child plays a sport, researchers found, parents expend three hours and 23 minutes ...

Vice President JD Vance faced an impossible task trying to negotiate an end to the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. That Vance failed is no surprise, given Iran’s so-far implacable resistance to the dem...

ON SATURDAY, GREENSBURG Diocese Bishop Larry J. Kulick gathered people at Blessed Sacrament Cathedral to bow their heads and share hope for a common goal: peace. The vigil came at a time when many peo...

To the Editor: TACO made a lot of promises to the hard-working citizens of the U.S. He said we would get tired of winning but didn’t tell us when this winning was going to start. He said on his first ...

War is a great engine of change, sweeping aside assumptions, toppling established power relationships, driving new forces into play, rearranging long-held theories and challenging orthodoxies. That ha...

WHEN YOU FILL OUT A FORM to do anything, there is certain information you expect to provide. Name. Address. Phone number or email. Those are the ways you are identified, how your residency is establis...

The Left and some on the Right went crazy over President Donald Trump’s recent tweet. He warned that if the Iranian regime did not cease blocking the international Strait of Hormuz, he would hit its d...

If you don’t know former Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, he’s the first to tell you these days that he wasn’t ready for the fight of Washington, in some respects. He wasn’t a politician -- honestly, the man ...