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Time to end childhood lead poisoning in Pa.

The Lead-Free Promise Project, a new coalition of child welfare advocates, law enforcement, housing officials, health insurers, health care providers and more, have joined forces to urge Pennsylvania lawmakers to target childhood lead poisoning at its source.Lawmakers should heed their call and ...

The vaccines that were developed at lightning speed to combat COVID-19 are safe and highly effective, and millions of Americans have received them for all the right reasons – because they want to protect themselves, their families, friends and communities, and finally get life back to ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> Brownsville’s Jolena Quarzo and Ringgold’s Ryan Pajak won individual titles last week at the WPIAL Class AA Cross Country Championship. The gold was Quarzo’s second and Pajak’s first. Cheers also to Uniontown’s Hope Trimmer for ...

Probation bill accelerates justice reform

Just a week after the Wolf administration announced that the state prison population had declined to its lowest level in decades – due largely to a series of bipartisan criminal justice reforms – the state Senate is poised to adopt another reform to accelerate the progress.By a unanimous, ...

Curriculums aren’t secrets, or weapons

Public school curriculums are legitimate matters of public interest, or at least of parental interest, and they clearly are public information. So, in the normal course of things, posting curriculums online should not be controversial.But the current political environment is far from the normal ...

Holly Ann Davis of Canonsburg was a 56-year-old certified nursing assistant, a member of Daughters of the Elks, followed her sons’ activities in sports and loved to dance.About 1:45 a.m. last Sunday, Davis tragically became one of roughly 500 Americans who will die this year as a result of a ...