Politics
February 19, 2025
To the Editor: Funny! Obama and Clinton deported a total of 17 million illegal immigrants and Biden let them all back in! Clinton terminated 377,000 federal jobs but now the Dems are protesting that T...
Politics
By By PETER SMITH Associated Press 
February 19, 2025
Catholic bishops sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its abrupt halt to funding of refugee resettlement, calling the action unlawful and harmful to newly arrived refugees and to the nation’s...
Democrats are learning it’s not 2017 all over again
Politics
February 19, 2025
This week, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, raised the prospect of impeaching President Donald Trump over the Justice Department’s decision to withdraw...
Politics
February 19, 2025
THERE’S NO QUESTION this winter has been hard on our roadways in the Mon Valley. Extreme temperature fluctuations, along with precipitation in the form of snow, ice and heavy rain, have left streets a...
Mythologies about Musk
Politics
February 18, 2025
Here are some of the untruths told about Elon Musk and DOGE: “Musk has no right to cut USAID.” Elon Musk and his team are not cutting any federal programs. They are auditors. They were given legal aut...
Praying for the order of love
Politics
February 18, 2025
Donald Trump has gotten the commentariat to speak Latin. That probably wasn’t on your predictions list for the second Trump administration. And yet, comments Vice President JD Vance made on the order ...
Politics
February 18, 2025
JOANN IS CLOSING. The crafting and fabric retailer announced it was shuttering about 500 stores nationwide. Of those, at least 30 are in Pennsylvania and there are many throughout the Southwestern Pen...
Mike Pence emerges as one of the few Republicans willing to challenge Trump
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By By JILL COLVIN Associated Press 
February 18, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — His group spent nearly $1 million on ads opposing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s pick to lead the nation’s health agencies. He’s delivering speeches urging the president to st...
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By By ALAN SUDERMAN AP Business Writer 
February 18, 2025
Donald Trump has leaned into his unofficial role as the “ crypto president “ in ways that can both help the crypto industry and enrich himself and his family. Once a skeptic of cryptocurrencies, Trump...
Politics
February 14, 2025
A WESTMORELAND COUNTY SCHOOL board took action to censure one of its elected members. While the Norwin School District is not part of the Mon Valley, it’s a good example and a conversation for all sch...
This is worse than Jan. 6
Politics
February 14, 2025
President Trump’s current assault on the basic structure of democracy represents a far more serious threat than the occupation of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Four years ago, an angry mob, egged ...
Politics
February 13, 2025
TO WHOM SHOULD PENNSYLVANIA’S consumer advocate be answerable? The consumer advocate is a position created in 1976. The goal is to represent the people in state and federal proceedings involving utili...
If it please the court, who the heck asked you?
Politics
February 13, 2025
Democrats, those stalwart champions of democracy who tried to keep Donald Trump off the ballot, have an endlessly malleable understanding of whose view prevails whenever disputes arise between any com...
Politics
The end of democracy
February 13, 2025
To the Editor: I have a question you or one of your readers may answer for me. I have watched this battle between Ukraine and Russia. It would seem that this Russian leader was more in need of taking ...
Rewriting history, in football and as president
Politics
February 10, 2025
One year, he used the traditional presidential Super Bowl interview to say that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was “very bad for our country.” The next year, he used the same forum to say that she was “a ...