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Sen. Kim Ward’s op-ed “Now is not time for more taxes on electric, gas consumers” (Aug. 29, TribLIVE) includes concerns about the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI). TCI, being pushed hard by environmental groups, creates a cap-and-trade program in which companies that sell gasoline and on-road diesel fuel would pay...

Lies and exaggerations from politicians abound. Shared hate is one factor. If you do not like some people, and a politician agrees with you, do you then vote based upon prejudice and hate? I believe we have seen the results of that for four years. The virus rages on. So...

President Donald Trump seems to be counting on the fact that many Americans are too busy to bother paying attention to what is really happening in this country, hoping that you don’t realize or just don’t care that his agenda is to become a dictator. Just look around you and...

I must respond to Rev. Tony Joseph’s letter “Biden, Harris on abortion, marriage” (Aug. 28, TribLIVE), admonishing us that we shouldn’t support Joe Biden and Kamala Harris because they are pro-choice and support same-sex marriage. First of all, the reverend should remember the adage that just as the government mustn’t...

Much has been expressed recently concerning freedoms and rights, especially regarding masks. From my perspective, public safety concerns during an epidemic/pandemic will always trump individual freedoms and rights to the degree of the lethality of the epidemic/pandemic. The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic killed up to 675,000 people in a U.S....

Can I sit outside a restaurant in the ‘Burgh and enjoy dinner and/or a drink on Penn Avenue? Maybe not after seeing video on Fox News that showed protesters harassing restaurant patrons sitting near sidewalks and streets (“Pittsburgh police seek information about confrontations between protesters, public from weekend,” Sept. 7,...

SALEM, Ore. — Wildfire smoke that posed a health hazard to millions choked the West Coast on Saturday as firefighters battled deadly blazes that obliterated some towns and displaced tens of thousands of people, the latest in a series of calamities this year. For people already enduring the coronavirus pandemic,...

Is your non-profit organization going to have a fundraiser? Send information to The Stroller at least a week in advance to vndnews@tribweb.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Free meals and face masks available at Highlands Family Center Highlands Family Center, Tarentum, will distribute free precooked meals from Eat...

Sloppy joes are a great family pleaser, made from ground meat, onions, green bell pepper, tomato sauce. The onset of cooler evenings makes it a perfect time to add these sloppy joes to the fall dinner rotation. Ground buffalo is used in the recipe. It is also sold as ground...

Aleppo Pamela Corrado IRA sold property at 116 Sewickley Ridge Cir to Pamela Corrado for $327,750. Minnock Michael G Inc. sold property at 707 Timber Ln to Kathy Ann Linger for $190,000. Bell Acres Cartus Financial Corp. sold property at 216 Dilworth Road to Elias Pappan for $610,000. Bellevue BemInvesting...

Baldwin Borough Tioti Tiriobo sold property at 5542 Brownsville Road to Martin Brule Jr. and Janelle Fioretti for $245,000. Anderson Merzlak sold property at 528 Calvert Ave. to Bryan Fields for $160,000. William Richad Rickenbach sold property at 14 Curry Hollow Road to Sarlin Properties Inc. for $65,000. Janice Dawso...

Bridgeville James Lilja sold property at 1054 Grandview Ave. to Zachary Egidi and Daniel Hinderliter for $200,000. Amelia Critchlow sold property at 297 Liberty St. to James Stephens and Tania Wang for $68,800. Carnegie Adam Macino sold property at 113 Fifth Ave. to Joshua and Pamela Champion for $159,900. Vollmer...

Pine Mark Yahraus sold property at 319 Balsa Drive to RAC Closing Services LLC for $602,500. RAC Closing Services LLC sold property at 319 Balsa Drive to Jason Bakk and Heather T. Sparling for $602,500. Julie Leininger sold property at 617 Broadmore Ln to Gary Schmidt for $349,800. Villas English...

Hampton Charles Troy sold property at 4830 Andrews Road to Win Plus Management LLC for $40,000. David Whitlinger Jr. sold property at 2836 Bella Vista Drive to Robert Lass for $185,000. Susan Shuey sold property at 3954 Bonita Drive to UCG Thirty Seven LLC for $97,000. Joan White sold property...

Reserve Jennifer Ehnot sold property at 1728 Luty Ave. to Michael Seitz and Jennifer Ehnot for $7,000. Shaler Regis Donald Komraus sold property at 1041 Anderson Road to Scott Whipple for $161,000. Greater Pittsburgh Properties LLC sold property at 108 E Littlewood St. to Brittany Lynn Buchheit for $237,200. Michele...

Fox Chapel John Bell trustee sold property at 9 Windsor Road to Adam Laughlin and Jenna Cain Bell for $247,333. Harmar Estate of Esther Riley sold property at 26 Bromley Circle to William and Mary Stickle for $163,000. Indiana Gregory DiMedio sold property at 169 Indianola Road to Brian Osbun...

Churchill John James Lescisin sold property at 3300 Longbow Drive to Andrea Carhuaslla for $160,050. Steven Kleman sold property at 205 Thornberry Drive to Michael Baldwin for $260,000. Delmont Edward Cellucci sold property at 17 Delmont Ave. to Carl Pierce Jr. for $10,000. A. William Anderson sold property at 560...

Franklin Park Summerfield Holdings LLC sold property at 2523 Brandt School Road to Timothy and Jessica Merolillo for $120,000. Benjamin Risacher sold property at 2820 DePaul Ct to Senthilkumar Bhaskaran and Divya Dakshinamurthy for $490,000. Frederick Mohrbacher sold property at 2029 Karen Drive to Michael Murphy and Rachel Mazzoni for...

In a surprising development, the co-authors of this article have become friends. Surprising because Jonathan’s organization, Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP), decided last year to decline further funding from Colcom Foundation, John’s employer and a major funder. The decision was made over concerns about Colcom-funded groups that seek reduced...

Keep your distance. Wash your hands. Cover your mouth. Stay home if you are sick. These are the rules of the new world. The coronavirus world. They are the rules intended to keep covid-19 at bay and slow its march, minimizing a tidal-wave crash on hospitals and potential loss of...

Peeps fans will have to wait another year before they can pick up pumpkin, snowman or heart-shaped treats at the holidays. The Bethlehem-based Just Born Quality Confections recently announced it won’t be producing Peeps for the Halloween, Christmas and Valentine’s Day so that preparations can be made for Easter of...

For the next few nights Uranus, one of the most distant planets in our solar system, will be visible to the naked eye. It will appear over the eastern horizon at 11:30 p.m. and then rise from about a third of the way up into the night sky gradually moving...

Pennsylvania on Saturday reported 920 additional coronavirus cases and 25 new deaths, according to the state Department of Health. York County added 129 positive cases of covid-19, the state said. In all, there have been 143,805 coronavirus cases recorded in the state. With the 25 additional deaths, the state’s death...

Westmoreland County reported 17 additional coronavirus cases on Saturday, according to the state Department of Health. That brings the county’s total covid-19 cases to 1,962, with 1,888 confirmed and 74 probable. In all, 39,463 people in the county have tested negative. Westmoreland County coronavirus by dayInfogram With no new deaths...