It鈥檚 back-to-school time, and that means it鈥檚 the season for news reports on how much teachers spend out of their own pockets on supplies for their classrooms.Inevitably, these stories shed light on the level of dedication teachers have, even when many of them are not adequately paid, and ...
<strong>Cheers:</strong> A former Waynesburg woman is hoping to make a big impact on children in West Africa. Kathleen Nichols, who now lives in Ashburn, Va., is raising money to build a school in Niger. The three-classroom elementary school will benefit children ...
Thanks to the vaccine painstakingly developed by Jonas Salk at the University of Pittsburgh, the majority of the 8 billion people alive on Earth today have never known a time when the possibly of contracting polio was a daily worry.Before the vaccine was first made available in 1954, it was not ...
<strong>Cheers:</strong> Cheers to the vision of South Union Township鈥檚 supervisors, who鈥檝e committed to a nearly $5 million project that will offer the area鈥檚 youth a new place to go. The township is moving ahead with plans for a sports complex in the vacant ...
Pennsylvania鈥檚 state-related universities need to address what their response is to their gift from the governor.The state has four universities that fall into this category of public but not really public, private but not really private.They also are some of the largest in Pennsylvania.Penn ...
Pennsylvania led the nation in 1988 when it adopted a progressive new law that vastly accelerated waste recycling, and there is little doubt that the law has kept millions of tons of reusable materials out of landfills.But 34 years later, a study by the nonprofit Pennsylvania Resources Council ...
