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Editorials

Politicians agree children should be safe at school. How to do it is a quandry

Whether we are talking about individual incidents or the attacks with high casualty numbers like those in Uvalde, Texas, or Newtown, Conn., everyone agrees that children should be safe at school. They just don’t agree on how to make that happen. Some want more gun control. Some want more ...

Abandoning unpaid loans another sign of irresponsibility

We have editorialized repeatedly — and will continue to editorialize, likely repeatedly — that our federal government needs to take spending deficits and the $33 trillion national debt seriously. A recently revealed failure by the Small Business Administration and the White House ...

Chain pharmacies closing raise the risk of ‘pharmacy deserts’

If you’re of a certain age, you probably remember when going to the drugstore meant a trip to the small, independently-run pharmacy a block or two away, where your parents or grandparents could pick up prescriptions, mouthwash and other boring adult stuff, and you could peruse the comic books ...

Biden’s mandate causing trouble

General Motors recently said it is delaying electric pick-up truck production in Michigan, citing slowing demand for EVs and the need to make them more profitable. But the Biden Administration’s back-door EV mandate is ironically causing trouble for its plans for green-vehicle ...

Pennsylvania needs to earn a better grade

Pennsylvania needed more than $51 billion to pay its outstanding bills, including unfunded retirement obligations,” a report by the organization Truth in Accounting said in its bevy of reported grading each states’ fiscal health. The report — unsurprisingly, in our view, when you ...

October is breast cancer awareness month

It’s October, a time when pink is prevalent in our communities, making us aware it’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month. According to medical experts, one in eight women will develop invasive breast cancer in her lifetime. The most significant risk factors for breast cancer are gender — ...