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Editorial: Pa. State System takes right step to curbing crazy tuition rates
There is a lot of talk about how to handle student loan debt. There are the loans the students take out. There are the loans the parents take out to help. The Federal Reserve estimates Americans have about $1.7 trillion in student loan debt. Student loans are an overwhelming burden...
Letter to the editor: Politics shaping faith, negatively
I was very impressed by Leonard Pitts Jr.’s column “Small wonder the church is shrinking” (April 6, TribLIVE). He states that for the first time since Gallup has been tracking religious membership, we are at an all-time low. In 1937, 73% of us belonged to some form of house of...
Letter to the editor: Abortion burial proposal invasion of privacy
Dear state Rep. Kathy Rapp: You continue to introduce legislation about me without returning my offers to talk. You don’t consult with the health care professionals that cared for me and my baby. Instead, you choose to bury your head in the sand because you don’t want to hear the...
The Stroller, April 18, 2021: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your club meetings, events and fundraisers in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Registration open for St. Margaret Foundation Brian Demchak Hope Challenge The annual St. Margaret Foundation Brian Demchak Hope Challenge is set for May 16...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for April 17, 2021
High schools Baseball Saturday’s results Nonsection Hickory 7, Laurel 6 Indiana 9, Punxsutawney 3 Serra Catholic 4, Avonworth 2 Kiski Area 3, Seneca Valley 3 Mars at North Allegheny, ppd. Hockey PIHL Penguins Cup Playoffs Finals Class AAA Monday’s schedule North Allegheny (15-5-0-2) vs. Mt. Lebanon (11-9-0-2) at RMU, 6:30...
High school roundup for April 17, 2021: Butler athletes star at TSTCA Invite
Led by sprinter Guinness Brown, hurdler Emma Lehman and thrower Sarayne Forbes, Butler athletes put on a show at the TSTCA Invite on Saturday at West Mifflin. Brown was the only runner to crack the 11-second mark in the 100 and took the 200 by more than a second. Lehman...
George Guido: Alle-Kiski Valley Sports Hall of Fame to honor student-athletes
Despite the absence of a formal induction banquet for the second consecutive year, the Alle-Kiski Valley Sports Hall of Fame will recognize 12 local student-athletes for recent accomplishments. A luncheon will be held May 8 at the New Kensington Quality Inn. Because of the pandemic, the event will be closed...
PAC coaches, players see silver linings in unusual spring football seasonVideo
The feeling was one Saint Vincent senior receiver Keith Kalp isn’t likely to forget. The Mt. Pleasant grad stood on the sideline at Grove City’s Thorn Field anticipating his first football game in more than 400 days. The covid-19 pandemic forced the Presidents’ Athletic Conference to cancel football season in...
Joe Nocera: Bernie Madoff left behind only misery and heartache
Bernie Madoff is dead, and it is unlikely that even the people who once were closest to him will shed a tear. Not his wife, Ruth, whose life was destroyed when Madoff’s Ponzi scheme was revealed in December 2008. Not his brother, Peter, Madoff’s former chief compliance officer, who spent...
Robert Lysek: Public charter schools want real reform
It might surprise those listening to Gov. Tom Wolf constantly attacking public charter schools that the charter school leaders in Pennsylvania support comprehensive education reform and have supported it for years. What we don’t support are the arbitrary funding cuts the governor and anti-charter activists seek to prevent Pennsylvania families...
Sounding off: We don’t deserve the wealthy’s money
President Biden’s new plan to fund American public programs is by taxing the wealthiest Americans. It’s not a question of if they should, but how much. Yet the question that is never asked is, “Why do we deserve their money?” The seemingly overlooked answer is we do not. Elon Musk,...
UPMC’s efforts to eliminate health care inequities, racism
As Black obstetrician-gynecologists, midwives and members of the UPMC family, we have come together to highlight the current state of affairs for pregnant women of color. The U.S., a developed nation, has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world, with Black women affected disproportionately in comparison with...
Letter to the editor: Urge leaders to work to prevent another pandemic
I can’t believe that a year ago this month my university sent me home because of the “new virus.” I remember thinking, “This won’t last long; in a couple weeks I’ll be back in school and everything will be back to normal.” Now here we are, a year later, with...
North Hills student news: Virtual art show, essay contest winner and more
SRU virtual art show The work of emerging student artists, including Meghan Joyce and Victoria Grabosky of Wexford, at Slippery Rock University is on display through April 30 via a virtual exhibition, “MOSAIC: Individually Together.” Participating student artists are enrolled in the University’s professional practices course, Art Seminar, and under...
South Hills student news for April 17, 2021
First place Science Center award Pleasant Hills resident Liliana D’Andrea, a student at St. Elizabeth Elementary School, took first place in Chemistry, Intermediate Division, at the Carnegie Science Center’s Pittsburgh Regional Science & Engineering Fair on March 24. Her project, titled “Invasion of the Microplastics,” investigated how much microplastic her...
Sewickley student news: Quaker Valley kindergarten registration, dean’s list and more
Participating in Syracuse Sport Business Conference Anna Genter, a junior at Syracuse University from Sewickley, is involved in a student-produced Syracuse Sport Business Conference to be held virtually on April 24. She is a sport management and business major through the Whitman School of Business and has been on the...
Letter to the editor: Mail-in voting good enough for Trump
Kudos to Commissioner Doug Chew. When I saw the headline “Westmoreland commissioner says county voters want end to no-excuse mail-in ballots, another disputes that” (March 23, TribLIVE), I wrote a blunt, acerbic email to the commissioner that emphatically indicated that I wanted to retain the mail-in ballot option. The commissioner...
Letter to the editor: Republicans making sacrifice by refusing vaccine
Republicans who refuse to get the covid vaccine are to be commended for making the ultimate sacrifice. Some Republicans are good people, of course, but clearly that doesn’t apply to Republicans in Congress. When they weaken American democracy, deny climate change and reject science, they create a menace to human...
The Stroller, April 17, 2021: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your club meetings, events and fundraisers in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Flea-tique season to begin May 16 The Alle-Kiski Valley Historical Society’s Flea-tique will begin the season from dawn to 1 p.m. May 16 at...
Attorney: Man hurt in South Side brawl doesn’t blame Aaron Donald for injuries
A man who was beat up in a brawl on Pittsburgh’s South Side last weekend has recanted his accusations that NFL defensive star Aaron Donald of Penn Hills was among the people who assaulted him, according to the man’s attorney. The former Pitt star actually came to his rescue and...
Prom plans take shape in Alle-Kiski Valley school districtsVideo
Proms will take on a different look for Alle-Kiski Valley high schools this spring as the pandemic continues to complicate plans for most group gatherings. But that doesn’t matter for students who are just glad to see prom still being held. “I’m really happy overall that we get to have...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for April 16, 2021
High schools Baseball Friday’s results Class 5A Section 1 Kiski Area at McKeesport, ppd. Class 3A Section 3 Derry 10, Mt. Pleasant 6 Mt. Pleasant at Derry, ppd. Section 4 Brownsville 16, Southmoreland 11 Class A Section 2 Greensburg Central Catholic 19, Bishop Canevin 1 Nonsection Canon-McMillan 13, Pine-Richland 4...
High school roundup for April 16, 2021: Elizabeth Forward softball makes statement
Winning pitcher Kailey Larcinese struck out 12, homered and drove in four runs as Elizabeth Forward made a statement with a 14-3 victory over West Mifflin in a matchup of top teams in Section 2-4A softball Friday afternoon. Anna Resnik went 4 for 5 with a home run for Elizabeth...
Black leaders in Harrisburg fear consequences of a Derek Chauvin acquittal: ‘This is an important verdict’
For many, the Derek Chauvin murder trial is about bad policing and police overreach. For legions of Black men, however, the trial of the former Minneapolis police officer is fraught with the hard-earned battles over racial justice and civil rights that have defined their experience and that of countless of...
Freeport softball comes through in clutch in win over Burrell
Friday’s windy, chilly weather that featured spots of rain at Freeport Community Park seemed to include everything but lightning. It was Freeport that provided the lightning – two-out lightning in particular. The Yellowjackets scored seven of their eight runs after two were out and Freeport held on to defeat Burrell,...
