EACH SEPTEMBER, MENTAL HEALTH advocates, prevention organizations, survivors, allies and community members unite behind a common message aimed at saving lives. The mental health crisis hitting America...

It’s crazy for Donald Trump not to agree to another debate. While he may not be everybody’s cup of tea, his opponent is an absolute lunatic who could do permanent damage to our country, in addition to...

To the Editor: Donald Trump has never had to worry about feeding his family or paying his bills, so how can he possibly understand how difficult it can be living from paycheck to paycheck? He loves to...

WILLIAM PENN called America “the best poor man’s country.” Pennsylvania’s founder saw the opportunities in the colonies as a way for people to build a better life for themselves while building a bette...

As the presidential campaign reaches peak intensity, we are seeing an interesting phenomenon: journalists who don’t want to know some very basic information about one of the candidates. That candidate...

Democrats and independents are much likelier than Republicans to identify abortion as among their top 2024 concerns. HARRISBURG — Abortion is a top issue for nearly 50% of Pennsylvania voters when con...

GOVERNMENT PAYS FOR A LOT OF THINGS people need. Roads. Courts. Schools. These are things that make a community function. They also pay for things people don’t exactly require but that make society be...

Cynically running out the clock has been the overarching principle of the entire abbreviated 105-day presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris — ever since President Joe Biden, at the 11th...

There are so many egregious falsehoods spinning through the right-wing mediascape that it’s difficult to keep up with them — much less try debunking any of them. Some are so ridiculous — “they’re eati...

Another unwell person sought to kill Donald Trump, according to the FBI and other officials. We should all be grateful that no one was hurt, and that the Secret Service and local law enforcement appea...

To the Editor: When driving I have used my God-given sight to notice the thousands of new vehicles on the highway, stores full of customers shopping, restaurants full of patrons eating, sports venues ...

The editorial department of the Mon Valley Independent encourages letters to the editor. Letters must be no more than 500 words, must be in good taste and must include the author’s name, town of resid...

SUNLAND PARK, N.M. (AP) — The politics of immigration look different from the back patio of Ardovino’s Desert Crossing restaurant. That’s where Robert Ardovino sees a Border Patrol horse trailer rumbl...

After yet another assassination attempt on Donald Trump — or as The New York Times calls it, “what the FBI is calling an assassination attempt” — it’s time for Trump to hire Blackwater to do his secur...

THE OFT-USED PHRASE is “it takes a village to raise a child.” In updated parlance, it isn’t so much a village as it is a volunteer — or lots of volunteers. It is hard to calculate everything in our li...

THE DATING OF BALLOTS in Pennsylvania is a Groundhog Day kind of issue. No, we don’t mean that it pops its head up in February and then crawls back into its burrow to finish a long nap. No, we don’t m...

In the days before Vice President Kamala Harris visited Wilkes- Barre, Pa., on Friday the 13th, some Trump supporters in this northeastern Pennsylvania town speculated that she would have trouble attr...

Pennsylvania ballots for the November general election have been finalized by the state, and voters in Allegheny County can expect mail-in ballots to start arriving the week of Sept. 30, according to ...

The Sept. 10 presidential debate went down as expected. Summed up, it was Sappy and the Blob pile on Grouchy. The swarmy and evasive Vice President Kamala Harris preened, posed, and proffered empty pl...

The human-rights issue of our lives is abortion. Clearly not everyone sees it that way. It’s buried in euphemisms about women’s health. But unborn children still die. The March for Life happen every J...