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Curriculums aren’t secrets, or weapons

Public school curriculums are legitimate matters of public interest, or at least of parental interest, and they clearly are public information. So, in the normal course of things, posting curriculums online should not be controversial.But the current political environment is far from the normal ...

Holly Ann Davis of Canonsburg was a 56-year-old certified nursing assistant, a member of Daughters of the Elks, followed her sons’ activities in sports and loved to dance.About 1:45 a.m. last Sunday, Davis tragically became one of roughly 500 Americans who will die this year as a result of a ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> The Laurel Highlands football team clinched a winning record for the first time in 25 years, qualifying for the WPIAL playoffs for the first time since 2015 after defeating Trinity, 39-34, at Hiller Field last Friday night. Rodney Gallagher ...

Bullying a problem worth stepping up to solve

Some days the world’s problems feel so big that we fixate on surviving them instead of solving them. No judgment. We’ve all been there.But the next time we’re tempted to passively ride out one of society’s many injustices, we hope we think of Montgomery County mom Jennifer Diffley, who ...

It only came after an FBI investigation, subpoenas from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and sustained criticism about a lack of transparency from some of its own board members, but the Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System (PSERS) has finally agreed to change ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> The White House this week detailed plans to get COVID-19 shots into the arms of the nation’s children, age 5 to 11. Doses of the Pfizer vaccine will begin shipping within hours of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Nov. 2-3 ...