Penn State’s announcement that it is all but eliminating paper tickets for sports is the kind of forward-thinking step we’d expect from a school of its stature. But we have to caution the school to remember that not all fans are iPhone-toting millenials who live by their screens. The ...
Even before President Donald Trump threatened to use tariffs on Mexican goods imported into the United States, that country’s leaders seemed to be doing more than their predecessors to keep potential illegal immigrants from crossing our southern border. Now, however, the campaign has ...
Really thinking about what we read so often in the wake of mass killings is the only way we Americans can find a way to curb them. Taking the easy way out by concluding, as presidential candidate Joe Biden apparently has, that outlawing so-called “assault rifles” will do the trick, is ...
Exactly why the pitiful, sick weaklings who murdered 31 people in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, committed their horrific deeds may never be known. But as always, the reaction has been calls that the government do more to prevent mass killings. Stricter gun control laws already have been ...
Sometimes things have to be placed in the right context in order for people to put it in the proper perspective. An excellent example of this was a recent Washington Post report on motor vehicle fatalities in the United States. Most people are well aware that distracted driving is posing a ...
Watching the political process play out is more discouraging each election cycle. Even the freshest faces in the field eventually descend to the level that handlers and pollsters tell them they must in order to win: criticizing other candidates in the same party (many of whom they’ll have to ...
Sometimes good things can happen in Washington. One did this week when the Senate approved a common-sense bill to help veterans of military service. Among those pushing for the measure, the Veteran STEM Scholarship Improvement Act, S 2011. It was introduced by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. ...
The rigors of college are no joke. Neither, in Pennsylvania, are the tuition payments. A study on student debt across the country found that our state’s students have the highest amount of student loans. A 2018 LendEdu.com study found that 67 percent of Pennsylvania’s students come out ...
Yet again we hear in the news about someone who took it upon themselves to try to sabotage others’ food — this time in Pennsylvania. A 20-year-old woman in the Pittsburgh suburb of West Mifflin decided for reasons that are not yet known (but are suspected to involve intoxication) to ...
Here soon, the sound of whistles blowing, balls being thrown, caught and kicked and pads cracking will signal the return of practice for fall sports. Unfortunately for the athletes, preparing for sports in the autumn requires training in the heat and humidity of August — known often as the ...