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Environmental justice skips over Keystone

It鈥檚 not by accident that heavily polluting enterprises tend to be located near poor communities that don鈥檛 have the resources to fight against them. And Pennsylvania has a long pattern of allowing those enterprises to locate or expand atop previously polluted sites, such as strip mines.So ...

Jerry Sandusky case brought shame and change

Jerry Sandusky was trusted.The assistant coach and defensive coordinator for the Penn State football team and Washington County native whose father was the longtime director of the nonprofit Brownson House in Washington had built a reputation over decades as being an avuncular, teetotaling, ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> The Tri-County Leathernecks Association in Greene County is once again gearing up for its 41st annual Christmas toy drive. The initiative, which consists of collecting and distributing toys to area children during the holiday season, has been ...

This year鈥檚 round of redistricting 鈥 the work of shaping the political maps that help to determine the lawmakers who represent us in Harrisburg and Washington, D.C. 鈥 once again 鈥渇alls to a small group of legislative insiders who work behind closed doors,鈥 Spotlight PA鈥檚 Kate ...

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 鈥 because they want to protect themselves, their families, friends and communities, and finally get life back to ...