Opinion
February 27, 2026
MORE THAN A DECADE AFTER Charleroi lost its last Veterans of Foreign Wars post, a group of local veterans is working to bring one back — and organizers say the effort is about more than reopening a cl...
Looking straight ahead
Opinion, Politics
February 27, 2026
Donald Trump has waged war on the news media his entire career, frequently deriding journalists as “enemies of the people” and “real scum.” In his second term, he has gone far beyond name-calling, sui...
Opinion
February 26, 2026
The editorial department of the Mon Valley Independent encourages letters to the editor. Letters must be no more than 500 words, must be in good taste and must include the author’s name, town of resid...
Opinion, Politics
February 26, 2026
TARIFFS HAVE CREATED economic confusion over the past year. Some don’t really understand what they are or how they impact prices in the U.S. Some support them as an American trade policy even if they ...
Opinion
When did
February 26, 2026
To the Editor: Lately I’ve been inspired by letter writers with positive views and optimistic messages and also by writers who give credit where credit is due. Therefore praises to the entire staff of...
Is time running out for sanctuary cities?
Opinion, Politics
February 26, 2026
In the end, the conflict between federal immigration authorities and protesters in Minneapolis boiled down to one fundamental policy question: Should sanctuary cities be allowed to exist? Should citie...
A shared history of struggle
Opinion
February 25, 2026
By REGGIE WILLIAMS AND DAVID M. SHRIBMAN When Black leaders proceeded from Selma to Birmingham, Alabama, in 1965 to demonstrate for voting rights, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel marched beside the Rev. ...
Opinion
February 25, 2026
EDUCATION HAS BEEN CRITICIZED in recent years — decades, really — for not teaching children how to think so much as teaching them how to take tests. Specifically, students have learned exactly what th...
Opinion, Politics
February 25, 2026
To the Editor: After the fall of the Soviet Union, Mayor Yuri Luzhkov turned Moscow’s Public Works Department into a personally-owned construction company. For a while his wife was the richest woman i...
Why exactly did they destroy the border?
Opinion, Politics
February 24, 2026
Why would any president destroy the U.S. southern border? The Left typically “pounces” on anyone daring to suggest that the Biden administration had green-lighted illegal immigration to gain new const...
Opinion
February 24, 2026
WE GOT A KICK OUT OF AN OLD chestnut among conspiracy theorists — whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe and whether any of those aliens have visited Earth — that rose to the surfac...
Opinion, Politics
February 23, 2026
PENNSYLVANIA LAWMAKERS are embroiled in the annual dance in balancing our collective checkbook — the state budget. At the same time, the Keystone State is offering a tax exemption to data center devel...
Opinion, Politics
By By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer 
February 23, 2026
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AP) — Over and over, the Republicans and former Republicans who gathered just outside Washington this weekend warned that President Donald Trump and his allies in Congress are te...
Opinion
February 21, 2026
Donald Trump is an enigma To the Editor: We should seriously question the Trump influenced thinking of elected Republicans — federal, state or local. Obvious to many Americans, Trump’s credibility is ...
Marco Rubio is the only adult left in the room
Opinion, Politics
February 21, 2026
Finally free from the demands of being chief archivist of the United States, secretary of state, national security adviser and unofficial viceroy of Venezuela, Marco Rubio made his way to the Munich S...
Opinion
February 21, 2026
It’s a great time to not only renew your faith , but also support local churches, fire departments and businesses as the Lenten season began this week on Ash Wednesday. During the Lenten season, fish ...
Opinion
February 20, 2026
REGIONALIZATION IS BECOMING a reality in Pennsylvania. You can see it with police departments, such as the Charleroi Regional Police Department and Southwest Regional Police. In the Alle-Kiski Valley,...
Stopping the steal for real
Opinion, Politics
February 20, 2026
“Stop the Steal!” That was President Trump’s rallying cry as he protested — frequently but falsely — that the 2020 election had been rigged against him. Now that slogan is relevant again — but for two...