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<strong>Cheers:</strong> Don Homer has been caring for Clearview Cemetery in Uniontown since 2011, giving his time to ensure those buried there are not forgotten. On Wednesday, he was honored by the Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group with an Outstanding ...

<em>Editor’s note: Syndicated columnist Diane Dimond is on sabbatical. The following was published in 2021.</em>Americans are now deeper in debt than at any other time in our nation’s history. Especially acute are mounting debts on past-due mortgage payments, ...

After completing a keynote speech on risk management in Seattle, a young man introduced himself to me and said, “I just wanted you to know that I decided to go into health-care administration after reading your blog post about that fish.” Of course, I was intrigued, flattered, but also ...

Even if you are at an age where you’ve already attended a couple of class reunions, it’s still possible to feel a twinge of melancholy when you see back-to-school sales in stores, or when you see the blinking lights of a yellow school bus on a street early on a warm August morning.Who can ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> The 2022 Pennsylvania Bituminous Coal Show has returned after a two-year break necessitated by the pandemic. The show marks the 67th held by the King Coal Association in Carmichaels. Also returning was the popular coal queen pageant, won by ...

Money makes elections go around.That’s nothing new. Political fundraisers are the only things more common in a campaign than stump speeches and kissing babies.Like it or not, they make the rest of a campaign possible. They provide the capital to pay for ads on television and online, the ...