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Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> Cheers to the vision of South Union Township’s supervisors, who’ve committed to a nearly $5 million project that will offer the area’s youth a new place to go. The township is moving ahead with plans for a sports complex in the vacant ...

Pennsylvania’s state-related universities need to address what their response is to their gift from the governor.The state has four universities that fall into this category of public but not really public, private but not really private.They also are some of the largest in Pennsylvania.Penn ...

Assess state recycling performance

Pennsylvania led the nation in 1988 when it adopted a progressive new law that vastly accelerated waste recycling, and there is little doubt that the law has kept millions of tons of reusable materials out of landfills.But 34 years later, a study by the nonprofit Pennsylvania Resources Council ...

On Monday evening, quite a few residents of Fayette, Greene and Washington counties were either nervously looking to the heavens or quickly heading for their basements as strong thunderstorms and tornadoes bore down on the area.The National Weather Service later confirmed that two tornadoes ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> Pennsylvania has long had a litter problem, and it becomes more painfully apparent every summer along our roadways. With more people traveling and no snow to obscure it, you can see trash strewn along interstate highways. It hardly makes the ...

It’s highly unlikely that anyone turns cartwheels when they pay their property taxes, but the idea that the money is going to the school up the street to educate neighborhood children can provide some solace.The reality, however, is that a chunk of those resources are being diverted from ...