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EDITORIAL: Let’s renew our promise

A travesty of justice is the only way to describe the continued persecution of law-abiding immigrants at the hands of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. In cities across the country and right here at home in Southwestern Pennsylvania, immigrants are being plucked from their ...

OP-ED: Another April finds U.S. on the brink

In April 1861, following the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, S.C., and the start of the American Civil War, Edward G. Roddy, editor of the Uniontown Genius of Liberty newspaper, wrote, "Amidst the civilizations of the 19th century, we are on the very brink of ruin, despotism, and ...

Letter to the editor

Refreshing, yet sad I recently had the opportunity to go on a cruise with my wife and a few friends. We had stops in Tokyo, Shanghai, Busan and Hong Kong. These cuties are heavily populated, with metropolitan Tokyo having over 30 million people. What was striking was how clean all of these ...

OP-ED: Cuba more complicated than ever

In January 2019, my spouse and I were privileged to join a Washington County Bar Association cultural exchange. It was a unique continuing legal education program that transported 24 local travelers to Havana, Cuba. Over five days we were treated to a full lineup of lectures on Cuban history, ...

EDITORIAL: Take the high road

We’ve all been there. Whether blinded by the high beams of a tailgating vehicle or unexpectedly cut off by another, the unexpected maneuvers that occur on short jaunts to the grocery or long drives to the beach are enough to provoke even the most even-tempered among us to raise a shaking ...

Letter to the editor

War drags on With all the bluster and bravado coming from the president and his war czar, their furiously epic “excursion,” as Donald Trump called it, seems to be dragging on a bit longer than planned. We just have to wait until Trump has the right feeling “in his bones.” Clearly, ...