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Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> With a growing demand for workers in the skilled trades, the Fayette County Career and Technology Institute is to commended for its continued forward thinking. The FCCTI just wrapped up another summer career-exploration camp geared toward ...

EDITORIAL: Public confidence requires transparency

Obeying the law is the lowest common denominator of basic citizenship. Yet many politicians and government officeholders often portray legality as the full scope of their public duty.It’s disappointing that Gov. Josh Shapiro has invoked the minimal requirements of the state’s Open Records ...

OP-ED: Anatomy of an insanity

With her wild hair, peekaboo sweater and extraordinary claim that then-presidential candidate Joe Biden had sexually assaulted her, Tara Reade merited considerable skepticism. Any such accusation deserved a hearing, of course, but Reade was an obvious nutjob and Putin shill. Why did she have to ...

OP-ED: The Supreme Court again repudiates colorblind law

In a 2006 case about racial calculations in redistricting, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote, “It is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race.” Now he has written the opinion for a divided 5-4 Supreme Court holding that Alabama’s redistricting after the 2020 Census did not do ...