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Democracy rule one: trust and abide

In the lead-up to the local elections of 1935, a group of Fayette County Democrats held a political rally alongside a highway near Brownsville.The tone of the rally was set by Charles Lewellyn, a candidate for judge, who told the gathering that he had been in German Township recently when an ...

Moving back school start times healthier for students

When you were in high school, were you one of those hapless souls who found your eyelids getting very heavy during that first-period algebra class?Were you one of those stragglers who had to serve a detention or two because you stumbled into homeroom after the morning bell?Well, looking back on ...

OP-ED: America needs both parties to secure the border

Donald Trump鈥檚 solution was to build a wall and insult migrants. Left off his playbook for curbing illegal immigration was any punishment for employers who hired undocumented workers. That would inconvenience farmers, he said.As it turned out, the wall wasn鈥檛 built, and those entering ...

OP-ED: The wrong kind of ‘growth’ for Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh鈥檚 office vacancy rate grew worse in the first quarter of 2023. And it likely will continue to do so for years, finds a new analysis by the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy.鈥淚t doesn鈥檛 appear the upward trend is going to change anytime soon,鈥 concludes Frank Gamrat, ...