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Winding its way through Congress is legislation that would require the U.S. Postal Service to track crashes of vehicles carrying mail. The legislation, which carries the name Mail Traffic Deaths Reporting Act, and which passed the House on May 6, also would punish USPS contractors that fail to ...

If you have a child in a day care program, congratulations are in order. You were lucky that you were able to get them enrolled in one, given how long the waiting lists are at some child care centers. And here’s something you might have noticed when you drop off your child in the morning ...

Cheers & Jeers

Cheers: Let’s say your grandmother died without telling anybody that she had a safe deposit box with jewelry and stock certificates in it, or a savings account that went unmentioned. Without heirs claiming it, the money and the valuables go to the state, where it is held as unclaimed ...

The Washington County municipalities of McDonald and Midway, along with Robinson and Mount Pleasant townships, are considering regionalizing their police departments into one unit rather than four separate entities. Town hall meetings have been held on the subject and, from our vantage ...

Cheers & Jeers

Jeers: The most famous line from “The Godfather, Part III” has Al Pacino snarling, “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” That’s how many of us may feel about COVID-19 in the weeks ahead. Just as the virus has receded from the headlines, it turns out there are a ...

Thomas P. Hoving was an esteemed director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, but he secured his place in history outside the world of art thanks to a remark he made during a brief stint as the city’s parks commissioner in June 1966. Meningitis cases were cropping up throughout ...