The Washington County Commissioners took a controversial vote in 2020 to take nearly $300,000 in federal and state funding from our local Washington County Food Bank and give it to the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. The reasoning at the time was that the Greater Pittsburgh Community ...
Owners should bear some costs for mall demo I read the Jan. 18 Point/Counterpoint columns from Dave Ball and Gary Stout in great detail. I myself wrote an editorial about this same subject a few months ago. Both men had some good viewpoints, but I still agree with Mr. Stout that half of the ...
The Trump administration provides new issues daily for elected officials, policy experts, journalists, and economists to argue about. Under this constant barrage, the ever-present elephant in the room is the problem that gets ignored. Such is America’s case regarding the looming worldwide ...
If your New Year’s resolutions included finding small ways to do good more frequently, the American Red Cross has some ideas for you. You — yes, you — are needed, right now. A glance at the organization’s website reveals an alert that there is a "severe blood and platelet shortage" ...
It was a bone-chilling day in Washington County on Jan. 22, 1988, but the chilliness I remember had nothing to do with the weather. While the temperature did dip to a low 23 degrees in Washington County that day, I remember it for the cold-hearted crime that occurred 38 years ago along ...
A friend visiting from Europe told me this story. The village tavern sat at a crossroads where it got many travelers. One night three strangers were put together at a small corner table. There was a German, an Englishman, and a Russian. While they waited for their dinner to come the German ...
