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 ...
Down Alabama way, a coal miners鈥� strike, now in its fourth month, echoes strikes in the coal fields of Western Pennsylvania in the 20th century.It鈥檚 eerie, and sad. Strangely, it鈥檚 also hopeful.The strike by 1,100 members of the United Mine Workers at the Warrior Met coal mine in ...
A Republican running for Northampton County executive in Pennsylvania gave a heated address on Aug. 29 about mask mandates in schools. Steve Lynch is tired, he said, of providing his school board arguments and data (he apparently thinks the data support letting kids go maskless), but the ...
鈥淲e鈥檒l always have Paris,鈥� Humphrey Bogart told Ingrid Bergman in 鈥淐asablanca.鈥滺ere in Pennsylvania, we鈥檒l always have litter, which is not nearly as picturesque or romantic as Paris.Despite decades of public education and cleanups, and hours upon hours of volunteer time, litter ...
President Biden鈥檚 meeting with the families of the 13 service members killed by ISIS-K terrorists at the Kabul airport during the recent airlifts out of Afghanistan was difficult, we are told.鈥淒on鈥檛 forget that name,鈥� said the father of one of the young Marines who died in the car ...
In 1980, I was making $18,000 a year with no significant benefits. That year we were driving a built-in-Westmoreland County, diesel Volkswagen because it got over 40 miles to the gallon. We were buying a house for around $70K that was all electric. Because we couldn鈥檛 afford an all electric ...
