It is with great sadness to read in the May 14 edition of this newspaper about Penn State's plan to likely close our local Fayette Campus as well as six other campuses throughout the state. This plan will devastate each of these communities, but I can only comment on Fayette Campus, which I ...
Bigotry has been more firmly established as a bedrock principle of the Trump/Hegseth administration with the ousting of 1,000 transgender members of the military. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took a victory lap for purging the "wokeness and weakness" in kicking out those who have honorably ...
Our ICE agents are fast becoming the terrorists they are supposed to be arresting. Now they are going after U.S. citizens within our borders, not only immigrants. They arrive en masse wearing bullet-proof vests and masks, carrying guns and arrest the mayor of a large New Jersey city and try ...
The foundation of the Trump/Republican Party is 鈥淭he Big Lie鈥� that Trump won the 2020 election. In more than 60 court cases, where actual evidence is required rather than campaign blather, the Republicans lost because Trump was lying. The hearings concerning Jan. 6 detailed the ...
Funding critical upgrades necessary to keep our water safe By Justin Ladner Pennsylvania American Water newly released grades from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2025 Report Card for America鈥檚 Infrastructure, a comprehensive assessment of the nation鈥檚 18 major ...
They move among us nearly every day of the year in the Laurel Highlands. Perhaps they鈥檙e sitting in the booth next to you as you sip your morning coffee in a local caf茅. Maybe they鈥檙e shopping next to you at the cute boutique store. Or they could be zipping past you on a bicycle on the ...
