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The untimely passing of Rich Trumka

Of all the deaths that took place in 2021 perhaps none was more unexpected and consequential than Richard Trumka鈥檚, the Greene County native and president of organized labor鈥檚 the AFL-CIO.Trumka was 72 when he suffered a fatal heart attack in August on an outing with his family. A cousin, ...

To save the country, tell the truth

As far as I can tell, the number of Republicans against democracy serving in the Pennsylvania General Assembly remains the same as a year ago.You will recall that a month prior to the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol, 64 House and Senate Republicans wrote their infamous letter requesting that the ...

Values and the morals of democracy

A few weeks after Christmas late in the 1930s, the president of the United States addressed himself to the problems attendant to 鈥渕aintaining the morals of democracy.鈥滻t was not the first, and it wouldn鈥檛 be the last time, that Franklin Roosevelt spoke of civic virtue. He pretty regularly ...

Huge role ahead for local officials

It鈥檚 been reported that both Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo are gearing up to hire a 鈥渟ignificant number of people鈥 in the coming weeks and months.The new hires, stemming from the mammoth $1.2 trillion infrastructure legislation passed by ...

Dems may be too late with projects

In politics, timing is everything. Democrats have a timing problem.At issue is the rollout of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure program passed by bipartisan votes in Congress, but whose journey through the congressional meat grinder was largely engineered by Democrats, including the Biden White ...

La La Land to us, ‘That’s all, folks’

鈥淐an a wife鈥檚 love withstand the torments of lifelong sacrifice,鈥 blazed the movie advertisement for 鈥淐ourage.鈥 鈥淲ill loyalty to a husband, imprisoned for life, last when there are others who offer love?鈥滿eanwhile, the Main Theater in Uniontown offered 鈥淭he Invisible Power,鈥 ...