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Lauren Boebert鈥檚 roaming hands

Lauren Opal Boebert is a Republican firebrand with a never-ending appetite for attention.She represents Colorado鈥檚 3rd Congressional District, with no shortage of provocative political views.Last February, Boebert, and her fellow troubled congressman, George Santos of New York, were among the ...

Mine workers and the UAW strike

On an April day in 1937, John D. Mallory, 鈥渄emonstration chairman,鈥 and John P. Depto, toastmaster of that year鈥檚 Mitchell Day celebration for coal miners in Brownsville, messaged mine workers鈥 president John L. Lewis.At the parade and later at the banquet highlighting the April 1 ...

OP-ED: Sex and the city: Political edition

The Republican Party, the party that for years has styled itself as the party of 鈥渇amily values鈥 and 鈥渢raditional marriage鈥 has lost all credibility on these issues.Not only do polls show a huge majority of Republicans supporting the thrice-married, serial adulterer Donald Trump, but ...

Book censors undercut libraries, communities

Pennsylvania is the second-largest producer of natural gas in the nation, with Texas out in front.Texas and Pennsylvania are, unfortunately, ranked first and second in another area: the number of challenges made to library books.According to a report released this month by the American Library ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> Kudos to Barry Couser and Judi Wyndroski, who have turned their morning strolls through Belle Vernon Cemetery in North Belle Vernon into a quest to honor military veterans. A month or so ago, Couser noticed a damaged flag on one of the graves ...

OP-ED: John Fetterman makes the U.S. Senate safe for disgraceful slobs

John Fetterman鈥檚 Senate legacy is now set 鈥 he鈥檚 the guy who made it possible to dress like a slob.What the Missouri Compromise was to Henry Clay, what the Second Reply to Hayne was to Daniel Webster, what the Civil Rights Act of 1957 was to Lyndon Johnson, Carhartt sweatshirts and baggy ...