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House GOP leaders move to strip Rep. King of committee assignments over comments
WASHINGTON — A panel of Republican leaders voted unanimously Monday to keep veteran Iowa lawmaker Steve King off of House committees, a firm rebuke to a influential opponent of illegal immigration who sparked outrage last week after openly questioning whether the term “white supremacist” was offensive. House Minority Leader Kevin...
Editorial: Mayor’s plan needs more details
“We welcome more details on the mayor’s full plan.” That’s what Highmark spokesman Aaron Billger said about Mayor Bill Peduto’s OnePGH idea. We second that. It’s not that we are critical of the plan or the goal. We don’t really have enough information to be critical. The initiative wants to...
How Pennsylvania achieved its steepest decline in state prison population
Pennsylvania cut its prison population by just over a thousand inmates during 2018 — a figure equivalent to the population of one entire state prison. “The 2018 calendar year reduction represents the single largest year-over-year decrease of inmate population on record,” Gov. Wolf said in a statement that credited the...
Chicago high school student charged with murder in shooting of transgender escort
CHICAGO — A Cook County judge on Sunday denied bail for a high school senior accused of fatally shooting his transgender lover in a death that drew public attention to violence against transgender women of color. Dressed in a brown juvenile detention sweatshirt, shackled at the waist and surrounded by...
Letter to the editor: Steelers, borders & pot
My thoughts about some recent news. • Once more the Steelers will not be in contention for a Super Bowl win. They have the talent, but need a coach. Mike Tomlin is a nice guy, but will never be a winner like Chuck Noll because he doesn’t enforce strict discipline....
Letter to the editor: Trump bully & liar
The letter I wrote a few weeks ago (”Trump’s made us laughingstock,” Dec. 13, TribLIVE) has been proven true. Our president is a bully, and this government shut down proves it. He is like a little boy who gets mad when he doesn’t get his way, takes his football and...
Letter to the editor: Tlaib misinformed on impeachment
Newly sworn in to Congress, Michigan Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib is getting some negative feedback regarding the profanity she used in a recent speech. Apparently, Tlaib was caught up in the excitement of discussing the opportunity to impeach President Donald Trump. In an online article, CNN noted that advocating a...
Editorial cartoons for the week of Jan. 14
Editorial cartoons for the week of Jan. 14....
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Jan. 14.
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Jan. 14....
Carnegie police increased patrols in 2018, calls for service up 12 percent
Carnegie police officers ramped up foot patrols in 2018 in what Chief Joe Kennedy called a proactive approach to policing. The number of officer-initiated calls for business, school and welfare checks rose to approximately 3,700 in 2018, according to service call records, up 41 percent from 2017. Kennedy said, for...
Bleach isn’t so scary if you know how to use it correctly
There is dissension in laundry rooms and grocery store cleaning aisles everywhere. For some of us, when it comes to whitening and disinfecting laundry and certain areas of our home, common household bleach is a wonder product. To others, bleach is a hazardous chemical. To get to the hard truth...
Pitt, Japanese students celebrate newfound adulthood with traditional ceremonyVideo
While volunteers wrapped and folded Emily Farmer in the layers of a kimono, she put her four semesters of Japanese to the test. The Pitt sophomore majoring in molecular biology understood when they would ask about things like the lengths of the garments or its front and back during the...
Learn new skills, life hacks through program
Mary Menk chopped the tomatoes, cilantro and jalapenos as a small group of ladies looked on inside the Lincoln Gallery at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall. A squeeze of lime juice and voila! The fresh, homemade pico de gallo was ready for devouring. It’s that simple. Even...
Clairton’s Lamont Wade among 3 Penn State players to enter transfer portal
Three more Penn State football players have entered the NCAA transfer portal to examine their options with other schools, according a report Sunday from the SEC Network. Sophomore safety Lamont Wade, redshirt junior wide receiver Brandon Polk and redshirt sophomore defensive back Zech McPhearson were said to have put their...
Reports of Patriots’ death are exaggerations
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — It was 20 degrees in Gillette Stadium, according to the newly installed thermometer that the light and breezy Los Angeles Chargers had to run past in the tunnel, onto a field clouded by the white frost exhaled from about 66,000 shouting mouths. Even colder, though, were the...
Authorities: 4 foster kids die in West Virginia house fire
CLAY, W.Va. — Authorities in West Virginia say four foster children have been killed in a house fire. Deputy State Fire Marshal Jason Baltic tells news outlets the fire destroyed the home Saturday night in Clay. The state Department of Health and Human Resources’ Bureau for Children and Families said...
Analysis: Stagecraft won’t win shutdown battle for Trump
WASHINGTON — Military salutes. Heaps of contraband. Oval Office optics. President Trump, who has long put a premium on stagecraft, is discovering he cannot resolve the partial government shutdown simply by putting on a show. With the standoff over paying for his long-promised U.S.-Mexico wall dragging on, the president’s Oval...
Jonah Goldberg: Recycled ‘Green New Deal’
It’s fitting that the Green New Deal pushed by many but popularized by Democratic phenom Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, who had her “60 Minutes” debut last week, is a triumph of recycling. Not of plastic bags or soda cans, but of ideas. Specifically, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal...
Trade war’s wounded: Companies improvise to dodge cost hikes
WASHINGTON — In Rochester, N.Y., a maker of furnaces for semiconductor and solar companies is moving its research and development to China to dodge President Trump’s import taxes — a move that threatens a handful of its 26 U.S. jobs. In California’s San Joaquin Valley, the CEO of a company...
Editorial: Taking care of elderly pays debt
Pennsylvania has learned hard lessons about protecting its children in recent years, from the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal to the failures of ChildLine to the Catholic Church grand jury report. We’ve taken deep looks at the value of our kids and the consequences of not protecting them. Hopefully,...
Letter to the editor: Liberals & immigrants
I wholeheartedly agree with Robert Ritchey’s ideas in his letter “Immigration win-win-win” (Jan. 4, TribLIVE). They are right on the money. I would like to add one stipulation: Bleeding heart liberal citizen sponsor will relinquish citizenship and be deported to immigrant’s country of origin along with immigrant when said immigrant...
Letter to the editor: Peduto, bring both sides together on guns
Mayor Bill Peduto has a unique opportunity to bring people together rather than to continue to divide us, as the recent gun legislation proposals are doing (“What’s next for Pittsburgh’s controversial gun-regulation proposals,” Jan. 8, TribLIVE). We are hearing a lot of viewpoints from both sides, but very little that...
Letter to the editor: See Trump for what he is
I am continually amazed by how so many people cannot, or will not, see Donald Trump for what he really is. The letter from Lou Mangione (“Let Trump do his job,” Dec. 17, TribLIVE) could, by some, be considered accurate. And yet: • Trump is no more scrutinized than was...
Pine-Richland’s SciGirls club finalists in contest
When friends Mahika Sampat and Devin Golla were younger they enjoyed going to the Carnegie Science Center together and even memorized the periodic table for a fourth-grade talent show. Now the two are seniors at Pine-Richland High School and founders of the SciGirls club, which placed as a finalist at...
New director of community services hired in Hampton
Alex Zarenko, community services director, will be retiring this May after 28 years of service to Hampton Township His position has already been filled by newly hired Kevin Flannery, who is set to begin next month, according to Christopher Lochner, township manager. Flannery has been manager and secretary to the...
