WHEN THE WORST HAPPENS, we rely on the people who answer the call to be there. We need the police to stand between us and violence. We need firefighters to walk into flames. We need paramedics and eme...

In other news ... With great issues of war and peace swirling across the globe, with questions of international law in the air, with the world economy facing fresh challenges, with the plate tectonics...

THE OLD SAW TELLS US you can lead a horse to water. You just can’t make it drink. It’s not about farm animals. It’s about effort and outcome being two different things. No matter how hard we try, ther...

It is difficult to determine whether the bizarro worldview of the current Democrat-media nexus can simply be attributed to either its generic Trump Derangement Syndrome or the attendant Wile E. Coyote...

CHICKENS ARE NOT INHERENTLY political, but they can be dragged into politics clucking and crowing. French King Henry IV is believed to be the first to wish “a chicken in every pot” for his people in t...

Congratulations to Bishop William Bass Sr. for being appointed the newest member of Monessen City Council. Bass was selected as a new member Thursday night to fill the vacant seat left when Lois Thoma...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump, who helped push the term “ fake news “ into the mainstream, now seems to have a new favorite subject: fake math. During a Thursday event announcing a deal wit...

Norway is, by almost any metric, a profoundly successful nation. It’s rich, democratic and relatively corruption-free. It’s not a socialist country, but fans of a robust welfare state and high taxes s...

THERE IS A MOMENT IN “The Wizard of Oz” when Dorothy opens the door of her uprooted Kansas cottage and steps from black and white into the glorious technicolor of a new world. Thousands of football fa...

Virginia voters decided this week to give state legislators the power to redraw congressional boundaries for next fall’s elections. It’s a big win for Democrats, who could gain as many as four additio...

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...