Government employees need not fret how wild swings in financial markets will affect their pensions. Public employment is the last bastion of the 鈥渄efined benefit鈥� pension plan.Public pension plans 鈥� funded by workers, taxpayers, and plan investments 鈥� must pay the defined benefit.The ...
A lot of attention is being paid to what our children are reading nowadays, turning once sedate classrooms and libraries into battlefields in our country鈥檚 never-ending culture wars.Some overzealous parents and community members have gone on book-banning benders, even though restricting the ...
<strong>Cheers:</strong> Organ donation is life changing. Dunbar resident Keith Lowry knows that firsthand. Earlier this year, Lowry was the 500th person to have a heart transplant performed at Allegheny General Hospital. He returned to AGH this week to kick off ...
We noted last week that it still is too early for people to let their guard down regarding COVID-19.That editorial noted the existence of many unanswered questions regarding the origin of the coronavirus and troubling uncertainties about what might lie ahead, specifically ill effects from ...
When the contractions start, when the device next to the hospital bed is beeping loudly, or when indigestion might actually be something more serious, you want a nurse to be there.Problem is, we are dealing with a critical shortage of nurses. The caregivers who guide us through those moments ...
<strong>Cheers:</strong> Richard Watson is to be commended for remaining calm and drawing on his experience as a first responder earlier this week when the school van he was driving was struck head-on by another vehicle on Furnace Run Road in Dunbar Township. Despite ...
