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No one knows whether the recent uprising means the end of President Vladimir Putin’s control of Russia, just as no one knew before the last few weeks of 1999 that Putin would replace Boris Yeltsin and become Russia’s leader for the next quarter-century.But everyone knows that the widely ...

OP-ED: How to read polls without terror

Experts will advise you never to eat meat with cream sauce at a buffet; always to lock your car even when just dashing into the 7-Eleven for two minutes; and never to read national polls in the year before an election.But there are coping mechanisms if you, like me, fail on the third.Two recent ...

The Law of Unintended Consequences will come back to haunt Pennsylvania businesses, their workers and the commonwealth’s economy should the state nearly double the mandatory minimum wage by 2026, concludes an exhaustive analysis by the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy.“If the ...

In June, the Washington County Chamber of Commerce partnered with Catalyst Connection and Digital Bridge to host a roundtable discussion on opportunities for local manufacturers. During that event, we found that the manufacturing innovation, geographic location, and skilled workforce that has ...

During his presidency, Donald Trump said, “We’re putting America first … we’re taking care of ourselves for a change,” and then declared, “I’m a nationalist.” In another speech, he stated that under his watch, the U.S. had “embrace[d] the doctrine of patriotism.”Trump is now ...

<em>This work of fiction is based on Taylor Swift and the Pittsburgh Symphony.</em>Megan was not happy. In fact, she was very angry at her parents and most of the world. It was Sunday morning on a beautiful June day. On the previous Friday and Saturday evenings, ...