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How, when, do we come together again?

When 30 FBI agents showed up at Mar-a-Lago to cart off boxes of documents, it was an authorized, legitimate and justified procedure to retrieve national security secrets being illegally kept there.Or it was an unprecedented regime raid on the home and office of the foremost political rival of ...

Kindness is not weakness

As a young boy, my body began to reject fat. It had become indigestible for me. In fact, it may actually be some type of Jack Sprat Syndrome. This condition is not dissimilar to another unnamed syndrome that I have acquired, and that is my inability to continue to embrace negativity.When the ...

Investigations reach Pa. pols

The FBI search of former president Donald Trump’s Florida mansion made the most headlines last week, but Pennsylvania lawmakers are also finding themselves drawn into investigations.On Wednesday, PennLive reported that the FBI delivered subpoenas to several Republican state representatives’ ...

Don’t lock him up: Lock him down

Recently, Republicans have had cold political waters doused on their faces.They stood by, turning their thumbs down repeatedly, while their fellow Senate Democrats unanimously passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.The only contribution Senate Republicans made to the legislation was forcing ...

David McCullough: Goodbye to all that

David McCullough, who died last week at the age of 89, claimed to be a writer first, a historian second. A native of Pittsburgh (the 16th Street Bridge was renamed in his honor in 2013), McCullough was a master of the English language, as he demonstrated in a series of best-selling books, ...

New York polio cases a reminder that the disease has not gone away

Thanks to the vaccine painstakingly developed by Jonas Salk at the University of Pittsburgh, the majority of the 8 billion people alive on Earth today have never known a time when the possibly of contracting polio was a daily worry.Before the vaccine was first made available in 1954, it was not ...