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A.B. Stoddard is associate editor and a columnist at RealClearPolitics, where this first appeared. Sen. Bernie Sanders is traipsing through red states trying to sell the biggest tax increase in American history to GOP voters, knowing full well not one Republican senator will be supporting his plan to spend trillions...

The federal government on Thursday filed a civil complaint against UPMC, its longtime head of cardiothoracic surgery and a physicians group, accusing them of knowingly submitting hundreds of false claims to Medicare, failing to follow medical standards for surgery and knowingly putting patients at risk. The allegations against Dr. James...

People living with disabilities often face tremendous challenges. One is striking the right balance between paying for day-to-day needs and saving for larger expenses while not saving so much that they become ineligible for critical benefits. The federal Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act of 2014 and the Pennsylvania...

A Lawrence County woman was arrested Thursday for allegedly participating in January’s Capitol riots. Julia Jeanette Sizer, of Ellwood City, is charged with knowingly entering a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct; and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building. She is not accused of damaging any property, harming...

Evacuating Afghanistan is one thing, but letting the Taliban immediately take over, kill the innocent, destroy rights and oppress is something else. Our allies are aghast, knowing this evil force will align itself with Western adversaries, threaten 9/11-style terrorism and help make egregious world trends persistent realities. Guess what? There...

Successful relationships don’t happen in a vacuum. They take work. And couples who make their relationships work are the ones who also have the most fun and feel the most love. It’s a simple program that really works. Here are 10 tools to get you started. 1. Give what you...

Mijohni Brisker knew something was going to break. She’d told her boys time and time again that playing with the football was for outside, so she had no choice but to take it from them to prevent the inevitable from happening. But that didn’t stop her son Jaquan from finding...

Gov. Tom Wolf’s Aug. 31 announcement that a mask mandate for all schools will go into effect Sept. 7 means it’s business as usual for students in North Allegheny School District because students are already required to wear masks there. No public comments on the matter will be made from...

Parents are taking their children’s education into their own hands in record numbers after a disastrously tumultuous school year. The U.S. Census Bureau’s experimental Household Pulse Survey, which is an online survey recording social and economic impacts of the covid-19 pandemic, demonstrates a dramatic shift towards home schooling within the...

DEAR JOAN — What do you know about cats chasing their tails? Our cat, who found us and said “I live here now, feed me,” has chased his tail (before), although only one or two times. Within the last week he seems to be aggressively going after his tail. I...

Today Nonconference Uniontown at Perry Traditional Academy, 7 p.m. Friday Nonconference Aliquippa at Beaver Falls, 7 p.m. (HSSN*, 1230 AM, 99.3 FM, 92.1 FM) Allderdice at Oak Glen, W.Va., 7 p.m. Apollo-Ridge at Avonworth, 7 p.m. Avella at Fort Cherry, 7 p.m. (HSSN, 95.3 FM) Beaver at Central Valley, canceled...

The election of 2020 was secure and verified. Masks and vaccinations save lives. Manmade climate change has happened. These three things are facts. There are no alternative facts or different opinions. They are undeniable facts. It is puzzling that our Republican leaders continue to deny these three facts. We can...

Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania abortion-rights advocates and their opponents agreed Wednesday that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to let a Texas law...

Sidhi Dhanda is about to start her sophomore year at Hopkinton High School in Hopkinton, Mass. She wrote this for the Los Angeles Times. I don’t know what most of the kids in my grade look like. I’ve never gone to a high school dance. My last “regular” school year...

I felt it was necessary to respond to Robert Supansic’s letter “Critical race theory misconception” (Aug. 8, TribLIVE) questioning the accuracy of my letter, “NEA’s critical race theory push” (July 30, tribLIVE). For starters, everything I wrote about centered around the National Education Association passing a resolution called New Business...

Speaking of an extended vacation from reality, I want to thank the author of the letter “Biden’s energy stance” (July 23, TribLIVE) for the reveal of where I can get “the real news.” Concerning his feigned umbrage at “Faux News” Tucker Carlson’s (silence?) on Alaska oil leases and the ConocoPhilips...

Facts, hard data needed before making mask mandates In the Aug. 19 edition of the Sewickley Herald was an article entitled “Experts support return to class.” In the article, the reporter quotes Dr. Andrew Nowalk of UPMC, stating that pediatric covid-19 cases remain in the low single digits. Dr. Nowalk...

I read the hilarious and certainly socialist-biased letter by Frank Zalakar attacking my opinion on Jan. 6 and almost hurt myself because I was laughing so hard (“Partisan demands regarding Jan. 6,” July 31, TribLIVE). He questioned my motives and accused me of being partisan because I want to know...

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There is a lot that should have been learned from the pandemic. How science can advance when government is a partner instead of a gatekeeper. How important transparent communication and trustworthy data are to a message’s acceptance. How much we depend on our least-paid workforce to get through our lives....

A group of violent insurrectionists storms the Capitol building, attempting to destroy our votes and kill our elected representatives, and Sen. Jake Corman, along with the rest of the GOP, rewards them with a sham audit of the 2020 election. Supporters of this bogus investigation say, “let’s have this audit...

INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 49-54) lost 4-3 to Iowa (Cubs). 3B Hunter Owen (.229) went 1 for 2 with a walk and hit his 15th home run. LF Bligh Madris (.255) went 1 for 2 with a double and a run scored. 2B Tucupita MArcano (.202) went 1 for 3 with a...

With running back Brock White on the shelf with a knee injury, Highlands was looking for someone to fill the backfield void. Enter Luke Bombalski. The sophomore ran for 133 yards and all four Highlands touchdowns as the Golden Rams opened their 54th football season with a 27-0 victory over...