In November 2023 the school board for Connellsville Area School District eliminated the traditional recognition of academic excellence when they voted 7-2 to no longer recognize a valedictorian, salutatorian, or top 10 students at graduation. Parents and students were only notified of this ...
I deplore the shooting death of Charlie Kirk but the fact that he was lying about transgender people in the seconds before he was shot reminded me of how disgusted I was with Matthew Dowling鈥檚 commentary Sept. 4. Trans people are estimated to make up 1-2% of the U.S. population and less than ...
So many are amazed to see our democracy being dismantled piece by piece by Donald Trump and his minions. He is not satisfied with destroying our government in Washington, D.C., he must now destroy it in the states too. He wants to send the National Guard to cities which are Democratic, and ...
On Aug. 15, columnist Beth Dolinar wrote about trying to catch a mouse in her house. Even though she said she didn't like glue traps because they didn't put the mouse out of its misery immediately, she used one anyway. Fortunately she didn't catch it in the glue trap. Glue traps are ...
Signature prevents fraud Mail-in voting results in the polls having an actual physical signature done with an individual voter鈥檚 pen on the state鈥檚 envelope, which would be the most secure evidence available to check any voting fraud. Donald Trump, under the guidance of that expert on ...
This weekend we mark the Labor Day holiday. Its roots go back to Sept. 5, 1882, when Peter J. McGuire loosely organized a march in New York City to honor and call attention to the laborers and unions who were building this country in the Industrial Age. Some 10,000 workers took unpaid leave to ...