The ongoing opioid addiction crisis began with excessive distribution of a new generation of effective opioid painkillers, such as OxyContin.But with new prescribing protocols and comprehensive prescription-tracking by physicians and pharmacies, the overwhelming driver of the carnage is the ...
In good times, serving on a school board is not exactly thankless work, but it鈥檚 hardly glamorous.School board members typically sign off on textbook choices, hire everyone from cafeteria personnel to superintendents, read the fine print in budgets, and consider nuts-and-bolts questions like ...
<strong>Cheers:</strong> Five years in the making, Brownsville is restoring a piece of its history with a Coca-Cola mural project in the heart of its downtown area overlooking the Monongahela River. The brainchild of Mayor Ross Swords, the mural at 25 Market Street ...
Pennsylvania has an opportunity to extract a modicum of justice from drug companies that brought untold death and suffering to vulnerable people in what has been dubbed the opioid epidemic.The Pennsylvania Attorney General鈥檚 office is recommending state officials sign on to a $26 billion ...
For anyone who was alive and sentient on that day, it鈥檚 hard to fathom that 20 years have gone by since Sept. 11, 2001.That鈥檚 long enough for fashions and technologies to have passed through multiple evolutions, for five presidential elections to have happened, for children to have been ...
<em>Editor鈥檚 note: This is a reprint of the 缅北禁地 editorial published on Sept. 12, 2001.</em>Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001.Years from now American children will open U.S. history books and be forced to memorize this date.In the days, weeks and months to come, ...
