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If only our leaders would be less profane

In May, a press release from the office of U.S. Sen. John Fetterman landed in the email inboxes of journalists around Pennsylvania. It was headlined this way: “Fetterman on New Castle Train Derailment: Same S–t, Different Day.” The train that derailed in New Castle was a Norfolk ...

Cheers & Jeers

Jeers: The Washington County Board of Commissioners finally did the right thing Thursday when it signed off on a $500,000 grant for a women’s shelter at Washington’s City Mission. The funding will come from the $9.2 million in the Local Share Account that the county receives from gambling ...

The presidential election as reality show

By Nick Jacobs After being inundated with another full day of news about the candidates for president, I’m exhausted from the petty bickering, finger-pointing, accusations, and madness of it all. This feels like a reality show with a plot filled with social media-inspired stupidity. ...

Football game should not have gone forward in brutal cold

Sure, we’ve had our days of unseasonable warmth lately, but remember that stretch back in January when it was so cold we could have ducked into a meat locker to warm up? Football fans in Kansas City surely do. On its way to winning its second Super Bowl in a row and its third since 2020, the ...

Cheers & Jeers

Cheers: We’re frequently told that one event or another is a once-in-a-lifetime experience when, in actuality, it is something that might well happen again in somebody’s lifetime. But the solar eclipse that is set to happen on Monday, April 8, lives up to the once-in-a-lifetime hype. As a ...

Triggered by the comeback of the Martens!

By Nick Jacobs The headline, “Engineering a Comeback” by Deborah Weisberg in the Pittsburgh Quarterly, immediately caught my attention. At first, I thought it might have been a political article which was something that I had not expected from that publication. Who was it ...