by Kerry Malawista Whenever a hurricane nears our shores, the government implements a system to track the disaster, including assigning a score on a scale of one to five to […]

by Salena Zito Years ago, there was an urban arcade called The Bank located in Pittsburgh within a series of five old buildings that once housed financial offices in the […]

by Leonard Pitts I don’t mind admitting that I could really go for a good fistfight just now. Or a race against time to foil a terrorist plot. Or a […]

by Tim Searchinger The mammoth pandemic stimulus and spending bill Congress passed last month includes billions of dollars to expand solar and wind energy. These are good measures to address […]

Back in the before-times (pre-COVID-19 pandemic), there was a movement to reduce single-use plastic that had gained traction nationwide. People were making the conscious choice to take reusable bags to […]

by Maryann J. Gray When someone unintentionally kills someone else, it’s usually because of a car crash. In 2020, COVID-19 could easily have been the No. 1 cause of such […]

by Cal Thomas I don’t like making predictions for a new year because they are just guesses and, like palm readers, fortune-tellers and “experts,” guesses are often wrong. The point […]

by Ellen Halle In 2015, when I was 23, brimming with idealism and newly arrived in Kenya, taxi drivers would regularly strike up conversations with me about their dreams of […]