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EDITORIAL: Pennsylvania’s education funding should be rebuilt

Pennsylvanians have spent years 鈥 decades, really 鈥 begging the state to find a better way to fund education.School districts in the Keystone State operate primarily on real estate taxes. An April report from advocacy group PA Schools Work estimates that 84% of the 500 school districts in ...

OP-ED: Pro-lifers should change tactics

This November, Pennsylvanians will elect a new judge to the state鈥檚 Supreme Court. The contest is shaping up as another donnybrook pitting pro-life and pro-choice forces against one another. It doesn鈥檛 require a Ph.D. in political science to guess how this one is going to turn out. ...

Ignoring the unfulfilled dreams of Martin Luther King Jr.

When the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. spoke at Mt. Rose Baptist Church in Uniontown in July of 1963, he brought a powerful message with him.鈥淲e have come a long, long way, but we have got a long, long way to go,鈥 he told the packed congregation on Grant Street.A month later (on Aug. 28), his ...

Is Biden too old for another term?

Most men Joe Biden鈥檚 age are retired gents putting on the green or puttering in the garden, or trudging off to Walmart or Walgreens to get their meds. But Joe Biden is not like the rest of us.Elected to the Senate at the age of 30 in 1972, two years later he was telling a group of Washington ...