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<strong>Cheers:</strong> As Pride Month gets underway and Washington hosts its second-ever Pride festival this weekend, a poll released earlier this week showed the extent to which LGBTQ people have won acceptance within American society. A Gallup poll found that 71% ...

OP-ED: Pennsylvania must make a greater mental health care effort

For too long, there has been a stigma around mental health care — but that’s changing with this generation. Students across the commonwealth aren’t afraid to talk about their mental health and that’s what I hear every day.When I visited Parkland High School in Allentown recently, ...

OP-ED: Trump never changes

It wasn’t a difficult choice to watch the first of the NBA playoff games between Miami and Denver instead of Donald Trump’s appearance on “Hannity,” but when Denver built a 12-point lead, I switched channels to see if Trump might say something new.Nope, same old denouncing of opponents ...

EDITORIAL: State pays polluter, then slaps wrist

Shell isn’t very good at controlling air and water pollution at its massive new petrochemical refinery in Beaver County, but it is adept at politics and math.The state Department of Environmental Protection announced recently that Shell had agreed to pay $10 million for releasing hazardous ...