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We should be ashamed of ourselves for how we have treated dying patients and nursing home residents during the pandemic. There is no excuse for it. There is no reason nursing homes can’t have visitors rooms where people can make appointments to visit their loved ones. Isolation precautions can be...

Fundraiser The Westmoreland County Community College Scholarship Golf Classic is set for Aug. 24 at the Greensburg Country Club. The event will raise money for the Student Emergency Assistance Fund to support academic success in the wake of covid-19. Rain date will be Aug. 31. For more information, email foundation...

Many readers of the Trib are old enough to remember the Kerner report of 1968. This was the finding of a special commission appointed by President Lyndon Johnson to determine the reasons for the 1967 race riots in Detroit, Newark and other cities, and other riots going back to 1964,...

Letter-writer Jim Hillebrecht (“We can’t take 4 more years of divisiveness”) is correct that every four years half of the country will be understandably upset by the results of a presidential election. And the election of Donald Trump was different because of the division and hatred. He’s wrong, however, to...

Every legal U.S. citizen should vote. Remember, elections are not beauty or personality contests. You are voting for the kind of country you will live in. I believe in the right to bear arms. I’m too old to defend myself and too slow to run away. My guns are my...

Glenfield Road between Ferry Road and the I-79 southbound exit ramp in Aleppo Township will close starting at 7 a.m. Friday. The closure, which is expected to end in October 2020, is required for construction of a new retaining wall, drainage repairs, excavation, guardrail installation, paving and pavement markings, according...

I’m watching the news about all of these protest marchers around the country, and I assume these people believe they are doing something important. I doubt they are. But it’s not too late. If anyone would really like to offset the hate in our world, here’s how you do it:...

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 or The Stroller, Valley News Dispatch, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15084. Please include a daytime telephone number. Butch and the Road Runners to play Tarentum Park...

A new Sewickley speaker series recently made a donation to the Sewickley Valley YMCA Summer Camp programs. Tapas Talks, a nonprofit, fulfilled one of it’s missions with the $600 donation by giving back to the community. The first two events — in October and January — drew 135 attendees and...

WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr said that the U.S. Secret Service told Donald Trump to go to a secure part of the White House as large protests unfolded outside, contradicting the president’s account of what happened. “Things were so bad that the Secret Service recommended that the president go...

February through May, my firm has been recasting our clients’ portfolios to reflect a continuing coronavirus epidemic and a recession of unknown length. We maintain a Model Portfolio, and about three quarters of our client accounts track it pretty closely. Here are the stocks in it, all of which I...

In June 1969, a police raid on a gay bar in New York touched off a riot that made people stand up and proclaim their right to be themselves. Today, June is celebrated as Pride Month. It hasn’t been an easy rainbow-colored road, and the LGBTQ community isn’t exactly living...

Drilling operations on Route 65 in Glenfied, Haysville and Glen Osborne boroughs will cause temporary traffic changes. The work is scheduled to occur from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, according to a news release from PennDOT. Drilling will occur between I-79 and McKown Lane. Single-lane restrictions will occur on...

Criminal charges filed by Pittsburgh police against 39 people in connection with protests over the death of George Floyd will be withdrawn by prosecutors, officials said Monday. “We do not have the evidence in these cases to suitably conduct a preliminary hearing,” the Allegheny County District Attorney’s office said in...

SANTA FE, N.M. — A bronze chest filled with gold, jewels, and other valuables worth more than $1 million and hidden a decade ago somewhere in the Rocky Mountain wilderness has been found, according to a famed art and antiquities collector who created the treasure hunt. Forrest Fenn, 89, told...

President Donald Trump is seeking to tie Joe Biden to activists’ calls to “defund the police” in an attempt to paint his likely 2020 opponent as weak on crime and vilify Democrats pushing for police reform, even though Biden hasn’t embraced the slogan. Two weeks of protests over the death...

Madden and Benz Unfiltered returns this week, and the guys are catching up with the sports world. Mark Madden and Tim Benz discuss the stalled rebooting of the MLB season and whether fans even care at this point. They also discuss the NHL’s plan for pod cities to host playoff...

Watching recent events, I feel a need to express my view to someone. Let me offer some background. I am a white, 75-year-old retired pastor in the United Church of Christ. My father was a career policeman in Baltimore as I grew up. He was not a nice man and...

The Sewickley Borough council agenda meeting scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday will be held via Zoom. Those who want to address council are asked to state their name and address and keep their comments to under five minutes. To call in, dial 253-215-8782. To join the meeting, go to...

Circumstances have forced this year’s baseball draft to become an exercise in profiling and evaluating athletes from a distance. The covid-19 pandemic prevented scouts from the Royals and other clubs from doing much of the in-person and interpersonal information gathering that typically helps drive decision-making processes. Reliance on quantitative data,...

The feel of a financial shakedown should not come from our medical providers, but that’s the effect of a surprise medical bill. A surprise medical bill is a financial burden that occurs when some part of our medical care is deemed out-of- network, which many times happens during emergency care. Surprise...

As revealed in the article “Leechburg Area considers $15.3M budget with tax increase for West Leechburg residents” (May 18, TribLIVE), the Leechburg Area School Board has found yet another way to raise taxes on the residents of West Leechburg. They are, as usual, blaming the obscure State Tax Equalization Board...

Thought experiments such as the one Lori Falce references in her column “Trolleys, Star Trek and a pandemic” (May 21, TribLIVE) are very common in studies of ethics. Their purpose is to test and refine the intuitions and principles we use in ethical decision making by applying them to difficult...