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Impossible to put price on human suffering

Pennsylvania has an opportunity to extract a modicum of justice from drug companies that brought untold death and suffering to vulnerable people in what has been dubbed the opioid epidemic.The Pennsylvania Attorney GeneralÎÞëÊÓÆµ™s office is recommending state officials sign on to a $26 billion ...

Americans’ strength found in united stand

<em>EditorÎÞëÊÓÆµ™s note: This is a reprint of the ÎÞëÊÓÆµ-Standard editorial published on Sept. 12, 2001.</em>Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001.Years from now American children will open U.S. history books and be forced to memorize this date.In the days, weeks and months to come, ...

For anyone who was alive and sentient on that day, itÎÞëÊÓÆµ™s hard to fathom that 20 years have gone by since Sept. 11, 2001.ThatÎÞëÊÓÆµ™s long enough for fashions and technologies to have passed through multiple evolutions, for five presidential elections to have happened, for children to have been ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> BrownsvilleÎÞëÊÓÆµ™s Jolena Quarzo and RinggoldÎÞëÊÓÆµ™s Ryan Pajak recorded first-place finishes last Saturday in the Cal U/Marty Uher Invitational. Quarzo won the girls AA race in 18:48.9. Pajak crossed the finish line in 16:33.8. Cheers also to ...

We must do what’s best for children

Starting today, students will be expected to wear masks in schools and at child care facilities, following the latest mandate issued by Gov. Tom Wolf in response to a high transmission rate of COVID-19 statewide.Some will say the governor is trying to remove the power from local school ...

Legislature overdoses on politics

Pennsylvania ranks fifth among the states in overdose deaths and the overdose death rate, but legislative majorities in both houses have not detected an ongoing public health emergency in those grim statistics.According to the National Center for Health Statistics, 4,377 Pennsylvanians died in ...