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OP-ED: An economic asteroid is approaching

Like many Americans, I am running out of patience with a number of things.In no particular order, these include a government that regards those with whom it does not agree as domestic terrorists, upon which the full force of the justice system may be unleashed; the hoaxes and delusions being ...

We have a crisis at the border that requires a functional U.S. Congress, and we don’t have one. President Joe Biden can only do what he can, and only of late has he sounded resolute.The “Republican-controlled” House of Representatives has no one in control. It is leaderless, and the ...

Israelis have likened the brutal assault from Gaza to the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. “At Dawn We Slept” was a title of a book about that intelligence failure. As Israel investigates the complacency that left it open to a bloody invasion, Americans must ask themselves, Are we also ...

The election coming up Tuesday, Nov. 7 is considered to be an “off-year” contest. Turnout is expected to be light. This is unfortunate, given that in Washington County the winning candidates will be responsible for governing for the next four years. The contest to elect three county ...

Once again, the great hue and cry in quarters both governmental and political has it that conducting a property reassessment in Allegheny County would be an immorality bordering on a public policy atrocity that would only serve to gouge taxpayers and even retard economic growth.But the reality ...