This is where we are: Nine months after not one, but three safe, effective COVID-19 vaccines became widely available to stop the pandemic that has killed more 600,000 Americans, little over half the people in this country and state are fully vaccinated.A highly contagious delta variant ...
Probably no one with any real understanding or logical suppositions surrounding the Pennsylvania Turnpike鈥檚 switch to all-electronic tolling subscribed to the shortsighted notion that the travel entity would not experience serious challenges in ensuring that a superior toll-collection record ...
<strong>Jeers:</strong> A challenge encouraging students to vandalize school property has gone viral on the TikTok social media platform, and some kids in Fayette, Greene and Washington counties are participating. The trend involves students vandalizing or destroying ...
It鈥檚 been 100 years since miners in Logan County, West Virginia, took up arms against law enforcement, private security forces and strikebreakers in the Battle of Blair Mountain.What started as a protest march and an attempt at unionization ended in bloody conflict. It wasn鈥檛 the first time ...
The ongoing opioid addiction crisis began with excessive distribution of a new generation of effective opioid painkillers, such as OxyContin.But with new prescribing protocols and comprehensive prescription-tracking by physicians and pharmacies, the overwhelming driver of the carnage is the ...
In good times, serving on a school board is not exactly thankless work, but it鈥檚 hardly glamorous.School board members typically sign off on textbook choices, hire everyone from cafeteria personnel to superintendents, read the fine print in budgets, and consider nuts-and-bolts questions like ...