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What goes around comes around in the Pennsylvania Legislature. Former state Rep. Frank Dermody, who used to appoint members to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, on Thursday received an appointment of his own and the $145,000 annual salary it brings. Dermody, 69, the longtime House minority leader, in November lost his campaign for election to a 16th term to Republican Carrie Lewis DelRosso. That 923-vote loss, however, served to fatten Dermody’s paycheck. His new post on the Gaming Control Board pays about $15,000 a year more than he collected in the Legislature. At the same time, the ...

Tribune-Review file   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. The Richard King Mellon Foundation, the region’s largest philanthropic organization, plans to give away $1.2 billion over the next decade, its director announced Wednesday. And it will continue a new practice in doling out the old money by soliciting public input on where it will do the most good. The foundation aims to “increase opportunity and prosperity in Southwestern PA, and to advance environmental conservation and stewardship across the Unit...

A new day, and a new moment for America. Time to let the healing begin. Republicans, Democrats and people across the nation echoed those themes when expressing their hopes for Joe Biden’s new administration and a future less fraught with anger and division in the United States. “There are times in America that have felt very charged with political tension and a great sense of fear and discord. But that’s the beauty of the new election: to turn the page on that and try to move on to something more positive,” said Ken Gormley, president of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar implored lawmakers in Harrisburg to “stop perpetuating lies” about the Nov. 3 election as members of a House Committee relentlessly grilled her Thursday in what they billed as the first of 14 hearings on the matter. Although President Biden’s victory of more than 80,000

TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Carnegie Mellon University officials announced Tuesday that the school will delay the start of in-person instruction for the spring semester until Feb. 15. “As part of our continuing (covid-19) mitigation efforts, we have decided to delay the start of in-person instruction by one additional week,” CMU spokesman Jason Maderer said. University officials said the decision was tied to the prevalence of the virus in the region. It marked the second time the Oakland-based resea...