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Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) of Greene County and Loved Again Charities, are partnering again for their second annual ChildrenëƵs Winter Coat and Gear Drive. Representatives from both agencies are asking residents to donate new ...

Environmental justice skips over Keystone

ItëƵs not by accident that heavily polluting enterprises tend to be located near poor communities that donëƵt have the resources to fight against them. And Pennsylvania has a long pattern of allowing those enterprises to locate or expand atop previously polluted sites, such as strip mines.So ...

Jerry Sandusky case brought shame and change

Jerry Sandusky was trusted.The assistant coach and defensive coordinator for the Penn State football team and Washington County native whose father was the longtime director of the nonprofit Brownson House in Washington had built a reputation over decades as being an avuncular, teetotaling, ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> The Tri-County Leathernecks Association in Greene County is once again gearing up for its 41st annual Christmas toy drive. The initiative, which consists of collecting and distributing toys to area children during the holiday season, has been ...

This yearëƵs round of redistricting ëƵ the work of shaping the political maps that help to determine the lawmakers who represent us in Harrisburg and Washington, D.C. ëƵ once again ëƵfalls to a small group of legislative insiders who work behind closed doors,ëƵ Spotlight PAëƵs Kate ...

Time to end childhood lead poisoning in Pa.

The Lead-Free Promise Project, a new coalition of child welfare advocates, law enforcement, housing officials, health insurers, health care providers and more, have joined forces to urge Pennsylvania lawmakers to target childhood lead poisoning at its source.Lawmakers should heed their call and ...