The biggest immediate challenge that will confront the new “All Together Altoona Fund Development Committee” will be to construct an operational format that will allow it to remain focused, productive and forward-looking for at least a decade as it works toward objectives outlined in the ...

There is no beach in Ligonier. That isn’t surprising. Westmoreland County is more than 100 miles from Lake Erie and hundreds more from the Atlantic Ocean. There is water in abundance from the variety of creeks and springs and more peppering Pennsylvania. There is no stretch of sandy shore ...

Voters of the six-county Southern Alleghenies region, as part of the national electorate who opted to return Donald Trump to the White House, were supportive of his promise to cut the size of the federal government. Trump has found many “candidates” for the proverbial chopping block — ...

As legal challenges to the actions of the Trump administration mount, President Trump declared in a social media post: “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” The quote was not original — it has been attributed to the French dictator Napoleon Bonaparte. But the laws and ...

It is an important development that possible sites for a new Blair County prison — three total — have been identified. However, what is even more important is that the three current elected county commissioners — Chairman Dave Kessling, Amy Webster and Laura Burke — have made a ...

Sometimes an editorial needs to take a broader, if not unconventional, look at situations in the news. The Feb. 12 Mirror article about six Penn State Altoona students under investigation regarding an Oct. 27 early morning vehicle crash that claimed the life of a 17-year-old high school ...