The transformation of Washington County into a jurisdiction where only Republicans win county elections is now complete. Since January 2020, when Republican Nick Sherman replaced Democrat Harlan Shober in the commissioners’ office, only the minority Democratic commissioner, Larry Maggi, has ...
As a state representative, I can’t sit quietly while one of the most important issues for our kids gets ignored – early literacy. We’re not talking about a side issue here. This is the foundation for everything else a child will ever learn. Recently, in a Senate confirmation hearing, ...
By the time September rolls in, Uniontown has its own kind of clock. The cicadas fade, the air gets that first cool edge, high school football lights glow on Friday nights, and the last yard sales of the season pop up like mushrooms after a rainstorm. I like yard sales. Not because I need ...
The phrase “health care” in health care administration was a complete oxymoron and the least healthy job of my career, and remember, I started as a junior high band director. That music teaching job had me in a room with 120 tweens and teenagers, all armed with loud instruments and a ...
On a recent summer evening, my wife was busy page-turning our copy of the weekly New Yorker magazine. Like many of us, the cartoons were the main attraction with occasional stops at articles that grabbed her attention. She was reading a piece reprinted and reviewed to commemorate the 1925 ...
Done right, the 100% purchase of the U.S. Steel Corp. (USS) by Nippon Steel will secure for the long term Western Pennsylvania’s central place in the steel industry of the future. Pennsylvania Sen. Dave McCormick and President Donald Trump just demonstrated in a Pittsburgh Energy and ...
