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Get out and appreciate the eclipse on Monday

What could be bigger than Taylor Swift? Maybe the solar eclipse that is set to happen Monday. Various prognosticators say the rare alignment of the Earth, moon and sun will be a bonanza for the slice of the United States stretching from Texas to Maine that will experience a total eclipse. ...

Eradicating blight can boost quality of life, economic development

Let鈥檚 say you鈥檙e house hunting, and you find a property that seems to check off all the boxes. Enough space, the roof is solid and so are the heating and cooling systems. And the price is reasonable. There鈥檚 one catch, though. The house across the street has long been abandoned. Its ...

Cheers & Jeers

Jeers: The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore is, as that city鈥檚 mayor called it, 鈥渁n unspeakable tragedy,鈥 particularly for the families of the six workers who were on the bridge when a cargo ship smashed into it early Tuesday morning and are now presumed dead. ...

If only our leaders would be less profane

In May, a press release from the office of U.S. Sen. John Fetterman landed in the email inboxes of journalists around Pennsylvania. It was headlined this way: 鈥淔etterman on New Castle Train Derailment: Same S鈥搕, Different Day.鈥 The train that derailed in New Castle was a Norfolk ...

Cheers & Jeers

Jeers: The Washington County Board of Commissioners finally did the right thing Thursday when it signed off on a $500,000 grant for a women鈥檚 shelter at Washington鈥檚 City Mission. The funding will come from the $9.2 million in the Local Share Account that the county receives from gambling ...

The presidential election as reality show

By Nick Jacobs After being inundated with another full day of news about the candidates for president, I鈥檓 exhausted from the petty bickering, finger-pointing, accusations, and madness of it all. This feels like a reality show with a plot filled with social media-inspired stupidity. ...