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A leaked U.S. Supreme Court decision, not yet final, that would overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling recognizing abortion rights for women, will continue to dominate the nationëƵs attention for months, if not years.Within hours after the decision was leaked, certainty already was cemented in ...

Why is everything the Pennsylvania General Assembly does so complicated and convoluted?The state Senate admirably has been posting senatorsëƵ expenses online since September. But not in a searchable form. So you cannot, for example, type in search terms such as ëƵrestaurantëƵ or ëƵflightëƵ ...

Graduates: Time to paint your Picasso

High school and college graduates: Your parents, grandparents, teachers and other adults have worked tirelessly to mold you. We know it is now time to let you fully develop into the masterpieces we know you can be.ItëƵs a scary time for us, but we know it has to feel even more uncertain for ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> State Rep. Jason Ortitay is to be commended for his tenacity in his efforts to get a bill creating a statewide online course catalog for high school students over the finish line. Ortitay, a graduate of Avella High School, recalled taking a ...

Make bridge inspection reports public

When a heavily traveled Pittsburgh bridge collapsed Jan. 28 into a ravine, taking several cars and a mass-transit bus along for the ride, it put an exclamation point on well-known nationwide bridge problems.But how bad are individual bridges? DonëƵt ask, at least in Pennsylvania.The ...

LetëƵs say youëƵre a voter in Pennsylvania and you like the cut of David McCormickëƵs jib, or you believe that John Fetterman would be a breath of fresh air in the U.S. Senate.The problem, though, is that if you are one of the growing number of voters in Pennsylvania not affiliated with ...