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December no time to ignore Congress

Congress鈥檚 lame-duck session is an ideal time for both parties to pass last-minute legislation while voters are busy Christmas shopping and before members who lost their reelection bids surrender their seats in January. Especially this year, real danger lurks in such legislation. Above all, ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> Greene County officials are able to continue expanding broadband capabilities to underserved areas thanks to a $1 million donation from CNX Foundation. In partnership with Kinetic by Windstream, the money will be used to install 31 miles of ...

Double-edged sword of facial recognition technology

<em>Syndicated columnist Diane Dimond is on sabbatical. The following was published in 2020.</em>On the television crime drama 鈥淔BI,鈥 Special Agent Jubal Valentine brusquely orders an underling to run a photograph through facial recognition to identify a suspect. ...

Heaven and nature sing

This time of the year, when negative things happen, they always seem to register more deeply, to hit harder, and to feel even more emotionally upsetting. This is because it is a time when believers would ideally like to celebrate with peace, love, generosity, gratitude and kindness as the theme ...

Explain use of private law firms

Republican majorities in both legislative houses and Gov. Tom Wolf have not agreed on much during the Democratic governor鈥檚 eight years in office. But they are of one mind in refusing to tell the public why they spend large sums of the public鈥檚 money on private law firms.Commonwealth Court ...

Bye, bye, Herschel Walker

Thanks to the failed senatorial candidacy of Herschel Walker, the Republican Party has egg on its face 鈥 again.There鈥檚 something sweet about that.Not just because Democrats now have the outright majority (51 to 49) in the U.S. Senate. But because Republicans got caught trying to play the ...