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OP-ED: Pennsylvania lawmakers can fix filing fee problem

Now is the time to get a divorce in Pennsylvania.Because of a failure of the state Legislature to pass legislation, a surcharge on court filings has lapsed. The $21.25 fee can鈥檛 be charged because the law authorizing it expired Aug. 1. Lawmakers haven鈥檛 passed new legislation that would ...

OP-ED: The Kennedy story was never that hot

America鈥檚 political scribes would do us a favor if they would drop the word 鈥渟toried鈥 before the name 鈥淜ennedy.鈥 America does not have families that are royal, storied or otherwise special because of the circumstances of members鈥 birth. Or it shouldn鈥檛.Lest anyone forget the point ...

OP-ED: Trump voters are responsible for their choices

I applaud people attempting to bridge divides in America, so two cheers to the New York Times鈥 David Brooks for taking a stab at understanding Donald Trump鈥檚 popularity from the point of view of his supporters. Why not three cheers? Read on.Brooks writes that most people in elite circles ...

Let the presidential debates begin!

They鈥檙e lining up to take on the current president of these United States 鈥 鈥淪mokin'" Joe Biden.There are two Democrats 鈥 anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and self-help author Marianne Williamson. There鈥檚 a third-party candidate 鈥 Professor Cornel West.Republicans, though, are ...

Trump can expect GOP testimony

It will be the greatest of ironies if Donald John Trump is convicted of crimes against the Constitution he swore to uphold.How so?The first irony is obvious. Presidents are tasked with seeing that the laws are faithfully executed. Trump is the first and only president to be charged with ...

What has happened to good behavior at the movies?

It鈥檚 been said that movies no longer have the central place in the cultural conversation they once did, and for evidence consider that neither Washington, Greene nor Fayette counties have a multiplex cinema anymore. There is a drive-in Dunbar, but if you want to see 鈥淥ppenheimer鈥 or ...