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Are you protecting the health of mothers and newborns?

‘Tis the season, and Payton Robbins, a registered nurse who is expecting her first child shortly, declares that “vaccines have been a topic of conversation lately in both my personal and professional lives. Part of my job as a school nurse entails ensuring that my students are up to date with their current vaccinations for both their protection and the protection of other students who are unable to get vaccinated or are immunocompromised. In my personal life, I have received several vaccinations recently to ensure not only my health as an expectant mother, but the health of my baby ...

Fetterman, peace and destroying Hamas

PITTSBURGH -- Sen. John Fetterman, D-Braddock, has emerged as one of the most reliable supporters of the Jewish community in his hometown, which is located a handful of miles from where the deadliest massacre of Jews happened in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh five years ago. This support is changing how many in the state see him. David Knoll, a Pittsburgh-based businessman and Democrat who launched a last-minute quixotic challenge to local county councilwoman Bethany Hallam over her social media posts supporting antisemitism, said, “Fetterman has been better than ...

Pennsylvania needs regulatory reform

Pennsylvania has led the way on natural gas exploration, producing and exporting more energy than ever before, creating good jobs, injecting billions of dollars into the economy and helping to drive down emissions. We can continue to spur industrial growth and economic development, advance emissions reductions and improve our environment with a regulatory framework that supports these ideals. Meaningful action on regulatory reform must happen now so that Pennsylvania’s economy can grow while we prepare to meet the energy demands of the future – including carbon capture, hydrogen ...

Hydrogen hubs won’t create jobs

Leading Democrats, including President Joe Biden and Gov. Josh Shapiro, are gleefully celebrating hydrogen hubs as a political two-for-one deal: good-paying union jobs coupled with clean, renewable energy. However, hydrogen hubs will create neither jobs nor clean-burning energy. Instead, these overhyped projects provide publicity to Biden and Shapiro, who are both desperate to deliver on their climate promises. In November, Biden announced that, as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that passed in 2021, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will spend $7 billion on ...

Refund should be due for the University of Pittsburgh’s poor work

Late this summer, the University of Pittsburgh released the so-called findings of a “study” by the School of Public Health examining the health impacts of shale gas development in southwestern Pennsylvania. The study, funded by a $2.5 million state grant under contract with the Pennsylvania Department of Health in 2020, is inherently and deliberately misleading and disingenuous. In what was supposed to be a scientific undertaking, the University commissioned lead researcher, Dr. Evelyn O. Talbott, who has publicly expressed opposition to natural gas in the past, to complete their ...

Joseph Goebbels has returned

Joseph Goebbels was the notorious minister of propaganda to Adolf Hitler. He was known for the, “big lie.” Goebbels used the new medium of cinematography very effectively to create facts and history where none existed. Goebbels pushed the agenda that certain people, the so-called non-Aryan Jews, were demons who, by instinct and training, would destroy the white Germanic race. It is a somewhat odd paradox, that today anti-Semites claim that Jews are as evil as other white colonialists and oppressors. To Hitler’s propaganda, the Jews were not white; and to modern anti-Semites, they ...