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Wrong-way crashes a horror on our highways

Last Sunday morning, 24-year-old Tyler Smith of Roscoe was killed on the Mon-Fayette Expressway near Elco. The office of the Washington County coroner reported later that day that Smith was traveling south in the northbound lane of the toll road when he hit another vehicle and injured its ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> Sixty years ago, there were fewer women in the workforce, and those who did work often quit their jobs once they became pregnant. Now, 77% of women in their prime working years are employed, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, ...

OP-ED: Yes, President Harris is a legitimate issue

Kamala Harris is one of the most prominent people in the United States, with the potential that at any moment she could inherit some of the most fearsome powers on Earth, but no one is supposed to notice.Republicans are deemed unhealthily fixated on Harris for saying that a vote for the ...

OP-ED: Why don’t facts change our minds? It’s in our DNA.

Deeply coded in our DNA are interesting survival mechanisms that have evolved over thousands of years. In an article by Elizabeth Kolbert featured in the magazine The New Yorker, she describes 鈥淲hy Facts Don鈥檛 Change Our Minds.鈥 In this article, she explains why humans are misled by false ...

OP-ED: Key facts about Pitt’s natural gas, public health findings

The recent environmental and health studies from the University of Pittsburgh have led to a string of alarming headlines and misinterpretations regarding natural gas development in the region. Unfortunately, reporting has overlooked fundamental flaws of the studies that raise doubts about the ...