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Letter to the editor: Our country is crumbling from within
Thank goodness we have F-22 fighter jets using $400,000 Sidewinder missiles to shoot down a cheap, innocuous hobby balloon. Our circus sideshows have now taken to the skies. But no matter what the distraction, the inevitable collapse of the big-top tent can’t be stopped. No need to worry about China...
The Stroller, March 2, 2023: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your non-profit’s community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least two weeks in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15084. Please include a daytime telephone number. Dinner to benefit St. Joseph HS musical St. Joseph High School,...
Letter to the editor: Commission should help, not hinder, Bushy Run
I am a past president of the Bushy Run Battlefield Heritage Society and have been a volunteer at Bushy Run for many years. During my term as president, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission tried to close Bushy Run. Thanks to the society members, friends and Sen. Kim Ward, we...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for March 1, 2023
High schools WPIAL playoffs Boys Class 6A Thursday’s schedule Third-place game Mt. Lebanon (16-8) at Upper St. Clair (15-9), 8 p.m. Saturday’s schedule Championship New Castle (22-2) vs. Central Catholic (15-9) at Petersen Events Center, 7 p.m. Class 5A Thursday’s schedule Championship Peters Township (22-3) vs. Penn Hills (20-3) at...
High school roundup for March 1, 2023: Connor Spratt hits 1,000 points, Seton LaSalle takes 5th
Connor Spratt scored 25 points, including the 1,000th of his high school career, as No. 9 Seton LaSalle defeated No. 3 Shady Side Academy, 62-44, in the WPIAL Class 3A fifth-place game Wednesday night. Luke Masua and Ian March each added 10 points for the Rebels (14-11). Eli Teslovich scored...
Editorial: Teacher financial aid would fill state education needs
Pennsylvania needs teachers. The U.S. Census Bureau puts the number of children in the state at 20% of its population of 13 million. That’s more than 2.6 million. It has 500 public school districts with more than 3,200 individual schools. That doesn’t include charters, parochial schools, private schools, preschools or...
FBI reportedly resisted searching Trump’s Mar-a-Lago for classified documents
The FBI pushed back against federal prosecutors’ plans to search former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort for classified documents last year, according to a news report. Despite ample evidence that Trump had defied a subpoena for return of the documents, senior agents suggested the Justice Department should accept false claims...
Oneil Cruz, Travis Swaggerty belt homers, but Pirates fall short against Tigers
Shortstop Oneil Cruz smacked his first home run of spring training, and outfielder Travis Swaggerty crushed a three-run homer in the eighth inning, but the Pittsburgh Pirates fell short against the Tigers, 8-7, on Wednesday at Publix Field in Lakeland, Fla. Cruz hit a two-run shot 355 feet to the...
PJ Mustipher supports Deion Barnes as Penn State’s new DL coach: ‘Coach Franklin should hire him’
INDIANAPOLIS — For so long, PJ Mustipher was a part of the fabric of Penn State’s defensive line. Mustipher, a two-time captain and All-Big Ten honoree, signed with the Nittany Lions all the way back in 2018. He was recruited and coached by Sean Spencer, one of the original members...
Girl Scouts’ new Raspberry Rally sells out on the first day
I’m a sucker for Girl Scout Cookies. Each year, I try dodging the smiling faces stationed outside of grocery stores peddling their confectionary goodness. I can’t say no even though I usually have several boxes stashed in my freezer. My intervention method has been to order groceries online so I...
Fox Chapel Area School District convenes focus groups
The Fox Chapel Area School District is hosting focus groups to assist in writing a new strategic plan. The focus groups will offer ideas and input. Meetings will last about 90 minutes and will be conducted virtually. School district residents and business owners interested in participating should contact Kathleen Anuszek,...
Movie review: ‘Palm Trees and Power Lines’ an unflinching examination of troubling relationshipVideo
An older man cajoles a young girl into his truck late one night. “Don’t murder me,” she scoffs, oblivious to the other, more insidious threats that he may represent. It’s a classic “stranger danger” setup presented by Jamie Dack in “Palm Trees and Power Lines,” her directorial debut, which she...
Brothers who crashed wedding reception are convicted of beating groom to death
Two brothers who crashed a wedding reception and beat the groom to death in Chino, Calif., in 2019 were convicted in February of second-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon, prosecutors announced Tuesday. San Bernardino County prosecutors said Rony Castaneda, 31, and Josue Castaneda, 22, didn’t know the groom...
Biden says Labor nominee Julie Su represents American dream
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Wednesday that his labor secretary nominee Julie Su is a “real leader” who has supported unions, enforced worker safety and protected the victims of human trafficking. “Julie is the American dream,” Biden said in remarks at the White House. “She’s committed to making sure...
Peter Morici: AI programs like ChatGPT are going to serve us — and that’s the scary part
OpenAI’s ChatGPT3 is impressive and frightening. The artificial intelligence program can write authoritative-sounding scholarly papers, computer code and poetry, and solve math problems — though with some errors. It passed a tough undergraduate microbiology exam. and graduate law and business school exams from the Universities of Minnesota and Pennsylvania. It’s...
Norwin grad Colleen Shogan, Biden’s pick for U.S. archivist, questioned over social media posts
WASHINGTON — The nominee for archivist of the United States made her second appearance before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee Tuesday, after the panel blocked her last Congress following a high-profile probe into records at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Colleen Shogan, an executive for the...
Letter to the editor: What Republicans voted against
One hundred percent of Republicans in Congress voted against prosecuting rich tax cheats, cheaper insulin and cheaper prescription drug prices. They voted against cheaper gas, voting rights bills, ending gerrymandering, fighting climate change, the stimulus checks, Roe v. Wade and the child tax credits. How will you vote the next...
Westmoreland happenings: Backyard birding seminar, Lenten events, blood drive, more
Submissions from nonprofit organizations for Briefly Speaking can be emailed to Carol Pinto-Smith at cpinto-smith@triblive.com or mailed to Briefly Speaking, 210 Wood St., Tarentum, PA 15084. Include a complete address and daytime phone number. Submissions are due at least two weeks before the event. Each announcement is printed once; there...
GZA, Donnie Iris, John Mayer among top concerts to see around Pittsburgh in March
As the weather starts to warm up, so too does the concert season for the Pittsburgh region. Here’s a look at the most notable shows coming to the area in March: March’s top shows March 3: Jerry Harrison, Adrian Belew at Roxian Theatre Guitarist Adrian Belew joins Talking Heads co-founder...
Letter to the editor: It’s time to legalize marijuana
Regarding the article “Pa. Department of Health sues to keep medical marijuana program data secret” (Feb. 20, TribLIVE), on Spotlight PA’s open records request about how often physicians approve patients for medical marijuana use: Privacy and transparency often are at odds but don’t have to be. Pittsburgh’s Management Science Associates...
Letter to the editor: Fetterman should be removed from Senate
John Fetterman should be expelled from the Senate. Just look at a short timeline. In October, he tells the audience at the debate with Dr. Mehmet Oz to have a “good night” before it even started. Then we find out he needed a teleprompter. He wins in November and is...
Letter to the editor: Reschenthaler and socialism
I believe, after reading the letter “Does Reschenthaler know what socialism is?” (Feb. 17, TribLIVE), that there is a good reason to perhaps question his ability to represent the people in the area — or any area of the country. If he can’t recognize socialism practices in our own country,...
Editorial: The lessons of Mark Rozzi’s short-lived speakership
Mark Rozzi says he accomplished what he wanted as Pennsylvania’s speaker of the House of Representatives. That would be the two votes he oversaw last week, getting the House to pass its half of legislation that could lead to child sex abuse victims — like Rozzi — having a window...
Letter to the editor: Shapiro must protect RGGI
Pennsylvania recently joined the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a multi-state, bipartisan program to cut carbon pollution coming from power plants. This pollution is a leading contributor to climate change, and Pennsylvania produces more of it than all but four other states in the country. RGGI has been a big...
The Stroller, March 1, 2023: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your non-profit’s community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least two weeks in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15084. Please include a daytime telephone number. Tickets available for spaghetti dinner in honor of Brackenridge chief Pioneer...
