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Why is it that those seeking the opportunity to be free and make the most of themselves come from other countries to the United States when they get the chance? Why do the oppressed and downtrodden often risk their lives to come to our great country? Is it because we...

To Allegheny County officials and the county Health Department: You claim the recent spike in covid-19 cases among young people is caused by travel to other states (“Allegheny County health officials warn of coronavirus spread in younger people,” June 24, TribLIVE). If you believe that, I think you are either...

Amid the ongoing pandemic where government agencies have given us misinformation about masks and the use/misuse of hydroxychloroquine and other easily available drugs, now we find out that the government-run U.S. Postal Service will take longer to deliver mail, due to a supposed overtime crackdown (“Mail could be delayed as...

This is not the way to live. It’s no fun. You responsibly have to wear a mask so you don’t spread coronavirus to others. There are those who don’t seem to care if they make you sick. People are tearing down statues and vandalizing parks, monuments and even a church’s...

Baldwin Township zoning public hearing Baldwin Township’s Zoning Hearing Board will hold a public hearing via Zoom at 1 p.m. July 28 to discuss variance requests for a property on Beltram Avenue. Information on how to access the meeting can be found here. Bethel Park Farmers Market The Bethel Park...

Follow @VNDStroller on Twitter for a daily link to The Stroller. Concordia Ministries to hold Kids’ Fishing Day Concordia Lutheran Ministries will host the last of three Kids’ Fishing Days for children 14 and younger from 8 to 10:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 1 at Saxony...

NEW YORK — Mayor Bill de Blasio can’t allow “Black Lives Matter” to be painted on the street and then reject the message, “Engaging, Inspiring and Empowering Women to Make a Difference!” a new lawsuit argues. A Virginia-based group called “Women for America First” says the city wrongly rejected its...

President Donald Trump called Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler “pathetic” after the Oregon politician was gassed by federal troops while standing among protesters outside a courthouse. “He made a fool out of himself. He wanted to be among the people, so he went into the crowd and they knocked the hell...

Open records are important or they aren’t. The public has a right to an accountable government or they don’t. It really isn’t a complicated issue. Gov. Tom Wolf’s position, however, is unnecessarily garbled. During the coronavirus pandemic and the state’s shifting series of lockdown and social distancing protocols, freely available...

Legislation is often verbose and unclear, sometimes leaving unintended loopholes that can be exploited by special interests. But other times the language is chillingly spare and ruthlessly direct. Like many states across the country that were taking up the charge to “Cover All Kids” and extend health care coverage to...

My mind is in knots trying to figure out the logic of county and state officials imposing restrictions on a single industry because of the actions of (by their own admission) a few bad actors. This most recent crippling of the hospitality industry — which will most likely be the...

Carnegie East Main Farmers Market The Carnegie East Main Farmers Market opens July 26 on East Main Street between Broadway and Mary streets. The market will take place noon-3 p.m. Sundays through Oct. 25. Masks and social distancing are required. Sampling, eating food on-site and handling products is prohibited due...

Kenneth LaSota, mayor of Heidelberg, has been named Pennsylvania Mayor of the Year 2020 by the Pennsylvania State Mayors’ Association. Each year, a PSMA committee, comprised of city, borough and municipal mayors across the state, selects a mayor who has had a significant impact upon the community, is a leader...

Regarding the article (“Hempfield resident confronts maskless county controller at commissioners meeting,” July 16, TribLIVE): Michael Pardus stated “it’s a law.” Well, sir, the wearing of face coverings is not law; the state Senate and House never passed a law requiring face coverings. Yes, it is a mandate from the...

We have reached the culmination of our modern, sophisticated and exorbitant education system as epitomized in the current urban rioting and statue demolition. The students involved excel in the modern version of the “3 Rs” — rioting, razing and revolting (as an aside, I find the entire Democratic Party and...

Do we dare question the authority of those governors who demand their subjects wear masks? What does the science report? The British Medical Journal in April 2015 reported rates of infection of health care workers wearing cloth masks were 97%, compared to rates of 49% in those wearing medical masks....

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WASHINGTON — Rep. John Lewis will lie in state at the Capitol next week, with the public viewing extended over two days and moved outdoors to allow for social distancing and public health precautions because of covid-19, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Thursday. The Georgia...

A federal judge in New York on Thursday ordered the unsealing of key documents from a settled civil lawsuit involving Ghislaine Maxwell and victims alleging sex abuse and trafficking by the late Jeffrey Epstein. Senior District Judge Loretta Preska ruled from the bench in a telephonic hearing that the public...

Laurel: To listening to grief. When Marquis Jaylen Brown fell to his death from the 15th floor of Duquesne University’s Brottier Hall in 2018, it left questions about why and how — and it created a hole in the heart of his mother, Dannielle Brown. On July 4, she began...

Pennsylvania state officials participated in a private phone call Wednesday in which Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House Coronavirus Task Force response coordinator, warned Pittsburgh and 10 other cities needed to get more “aggressive” with covid-19. After a story about the call was published by The Center for Public Integrity,...

It may not be the end of covid-19, but in the words of Winston Churchill, we may be seeing “the end of the beginning.” Even at this stage, we’ve watched trillions spent to help families keep their heads above water as the unemployment rates seem stuck in the double-digit range....

Gov. Tom Wolf this week said that he would have backed legislation that aims to require his administration to process Right-to-Know Law requests during emergency declarations if he were a lawmaker. Yet the Democrat still plans, later this week, to veto the legislation that lawmakers recently unanimously approved in both...