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Notes, observations, takeaways from Penn State football’s 12th spring practice
Penn State football held its 12th practice of the spring Saturday afternoon in Beaver Stadium, with 7,521 in attendance — a mixture of player, coach and staff guests and first-year students. The practice included warmups and a controlled scrimmage with no score-keeping, and gave reps to a vast majority of...
Letter to the editor: Combine vaccine passport, voter ID
As I read about the perpetual political wars over the concerns of having a vaccine passport, my solution (to please both Democrats and Republicans) is to just print the vaccine passport on one side and the voter ID on the other side. Simple, everyone is happy and the country is...
Editorial: Swatting back the scam artists that flock to a crisis
Never let a good crisis go to waste. It’s much more than a paraphrase of Rahm Emanuel as Obama White House chief of staff, or an oft-attributed aphorism of Sir Winston Churchill. It’s more like a political law of nature. Whole wedges of government have been created to address a...
Letter to the editor: Guns and mass shootings
Don Grasser in his letter “Our rights are for everyone” objected to the observation that “more guns mean more shootings.” He asked, “Guns were bought at a record pace last year, and how many mass shootings were there?” Well, this is something he could easily have looked up: Do gun...
Letter to the editor: Dangers of vaccination passports
Medical freedom and informed consent have always been fundamental principles in the American health care system. Requiring “vaccination passports” (documented evidence of vaccination) not only intrudes on the privacy of health information and frustrates the principles of medical freedom and informed consent, but its most nefarious infraction is that it...
Bethel Park real estate transactions for the week of April 18, 2021
Timothy Peckyno sold property at 836 Boulder Drive to Muzaffar and Azizakhon Tukhtasinov for $305,000. David Unglaub sold property at 5991 Boyer Ave. to Jorge Zarate for $161,200. Matthew Hammer sold property at 6444 Churchill Road to Jacqueline Marie Rodwick for $170,000. Colby Myers sold property at 988 Fairview Drive...
North Hills real estate transactions for the week of April 18, 2021
Bellevue Robert Recker Jr. sold property at Farragut Ave. to Crecker LLC for $5,000. Robert Recker Jr. sold property at 8 Farragut Ave. to Crecker LLC for $7,000. Young Mens Christian Assn. sold property at 629 Lincoln Ave. to Franklin Square L.P. for $900,000. Brian Wisniewski sold property at 638...
South Fayette, Upper St. Clair area real estate transactions for the week of April 18, 2021
Bridgeville John Baselj sold property at 742 Mill St. to Tru Sky Properties LLC for $55,000. Patrick McGinnis sold property at 1052 Sarah St. to John Albert and Nicole Helene Baselj for $219,000. Pittsburgh Sports Performance & Developm sold property at 331 Station St. to 331 Station St. Associates LLC...
South Hills real estate transactions for the week of April 18, 2021
Baldwin Borough John Coll sold property at 186 Cheston St. to Justin Hawkins and Marquita Quinones for $209,900. Abigail Rae Nath sold property at 3355 Churchview Ave. to Owen Parham and Abigail Valero for $163,000. Brandon Enos sold property at 5072 Dolores Drive to Tanka and Lila Subedi for $416,000....
Letter to the editor: Why Pa. turns out stellar wrestlers like Spencer Lee
I enjoyed Bill Beckner’s article “Iowa senior, Franklin Regional grad Spencer Lee named nation’s top wrestler” (March 30, TribLIVE). The article looked at Lee being named the Hodge Trophy winner for two years in a row, which is remarkable. Lee’s career at Iowa has been incredible as was his high...
Editorial: Pa. State System takes right step to curbing crazy tuition rates
There is a lot of talk about how to handle student loan debt. There are the loans the students take out. There are the loans the parents take out to help. The Federal Reserve estimates Americans have about $1.7 trillion in student loan debt. Student loans are an overwhelming burden...
Letter to the editor: Politics shaping faith, negatively
I was very impressed by Leonard Pitts Jr.’s column “Small wonder the church is shrinking” (April 6, TribLIVE). He states that for the first time since Gallup has been tracking religious membership, we are at an all-time low. In 1937, 73% of us belonged to some form of house of...
Letter to the editor: Abortion burial proposal invasion of privacy
Dear state Rep. Kathy Rapp: You continue to introduce legislation about me without returning my offers to talk. You don’t consult with the health care professionals that cared for me and my baby. Instead, you choose to bury your head in the sand because you don’t want to hear the...
The Stroller, April 18, 2021: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your club meetings, events and fundraisers in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Registration open for St. Margaret Foundation Brian Demchak Hope Challenge The annual St. Margaret Foundation Brian Demchak Hope Challenge is set for May 16...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for April 17, 2021
High schools Baseball Saturday’s results Nonsection Hickory 7, Laurel 6 Indiana 9, Punxsutawney 3 Serra Catholic 4, Avonworth 2 Kiski Area 3, Seneca Valley 3 Mars at North Allegheny, ppd. Hockey PIHL Penguins Cup Playoffs Finals Class AAA Monday’s schedule North Allegheny (15-5-0-2) vs. Mt. Lebanon (11-9-0-2) at RMU, 6:30...
High school roundup for April 17, 2021: Butler athletes star at TSTCA Invite
Led by sprinter Guinness Brown, hurdler Emma Lehman and thrower Sarayne Forbes, Butler athletes put on a show at the TSTCA Invite on Saturday at West Mifflin. Brown was the only runner to crack the 11-second mark in the 100 and took the 200 by more than a second. Lehman...
George Guido: Alle-Kiski Valley Sports Hall of Fame to honor student-athletes
Despite the absence of a formal induction banquet for the second consecutive year, the Alle-Kiski Valley Sports Hall of Fame will recognize 12 local student-athletes for recent accomplishments. A luncheon will be held May 8 at the New Kensington Quality Inn. Because of the pandemic, the event will be closed...
PAC coaches, players see silver linings in unusual spring football seasonVideo
The feeling was one Saint Vincent senior receiver Keith Kalp isn’t likely to forget. The Mt. Pleasant grad stood on the sideline at Grove City’s Thorn Field anticipating his first football game in more than 400 days. The covid-19 pandemic forced the Presidents’ Athletic Conference to cancel football season in...
Joe Nocera: Bernie Madoff left behind only misery and heartache
Bernie Madoff is dead, and it is unlikely that even the people who once were closest to him will shed a tear. Not his wife, Ruth, whose life was destroyed when Madoff’s Ponzi scheme was revealed in December 2008. Not his brother, Peter, Madoff’s former chief compliance officer, who spent...
Robert Lysek: Public charter schools want real reform
It might surprise those listening to Gov. Tom Wolf constantly attacking public charter schools that the charter school leaders in Pennsylvania support comprehensive education reform and have supported it for years. What we don’t support are the arbitrary funding cuts the governor and anti-charter activists seek to prevent Pennsylvania families...
Sounding off: We don’t deserve the wealthy’s money
President Biden’s new plan to fund American public programs is by taxing the wealthiest Americans. It’s not a question of if they should, but how much. Yet the question that is never asked is, “Why do we deserve their money?” The seemingly overlooked answer is we do not. Elon Musk,...
UPMC’s efforts to eliminate health care inequities, racism
As Black obstetrician-gynecologists, midwives and members of the UPMC family, we have come together to highlight the current state of affairs for pregnant women of color. The U.S., a developed nation, has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world, with Black women affected disproportionately in comparison with...
Letter to the editor: Urge leaders to work to prevent another pandemic
I can’t believe that a year ago this month my university sent me home because of the “new virus.” I remember thinking, “This won’t last long; in a couple weeks I’ll be back in school and everything will be back to normal.” Now here we are, a year later, with...
North Hills student news: Virtual art show, essay contest winner and more
SRU virtual art show The work of emerging student artists, including Meghan Joyce and Victoria Grabosky of Wexford, at Slippery Rock University is on display through April 30 via a virtual exhibition, “MOSAIC: Individually Together.” Participating student artists are enrolled in the University’s professional practices course, Art Seminar, and under...
South Hills student news for April 17, 2021
First place Science Center award Pleasant Hills resident Liliana D’Andrea, a student at St. Elizabeth Elementary School, took first place in Chemistry, Intermediate Division, at the Carnegie Science Center’s Pittsburgh Regional Science & Engineering Fair on March 24. Her project, titled “Invasion of the Microplastics,” investigated how much microplastic her...
