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Last press run for Parade in print

Parade 鈥 the magazine 鈥 has been a delight for generations of newspaper readers. The Sunday supplement, around since 1941, is colorful, concise, and cleverly packaged.Alas, the print edition of Parade is no more. Starting this week you may peruse a digital edition of the magazine.It鈥檚 all ...

Mike Pence: A man of integrity

If former Vice President Mike Pence is ever in need of a character witness, he could not do much better than one statement former President Donald Trump made to him.In his new book, 鈥淪o Help Me God,鈥 Pence quotes Trump as pressuring him to overturn the results of the 2020 election by ...

Public notices should remain in print newspapers

In last weekend鈥檚 Observer-Reporter, Buffalo Township in Washington County and Greensboro borough in Greene County placed legal notices for meetings in December where 2023 budgets will be considered for adoption. The Tri-County Joint Municipal Authority placed a notice for a special meeting ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> Nearly 1,100 donors supported Fayette Gives this year, raising $575,516 for 88 local nonprofits. The outpouring of donations during the Community Foundation of Fayette County鈥檚 12-hour day-of-giving event is a heartwarming reminder of how ...

The union elephant in PASSHE鈥檚 room

The 14-school Pennsylvania State System of High Education, or PASSHE, has been beset with many woes over the past dozen years.There鈥檚 the tanking enrollment. Then there鈥檚 a darn-near open acceptance policy for those who do enroll, which does a disservice to those wholly unprepared for ...

What ails the American male?

Throughout most of Richard Reeves鈥 excellent new book, 鈥淥f Boys and Men,鈥 I wasn鈥檛 just nodding along; I was foot-stomping. As a culture, we remain stubbornly attached to the notion that girls and women need encouragement to bring them into full equality with males in school, in the ...