As a municipal employee, I’ve had plenty of chances to see Mt. Lebanon’s police and fire departments in action, so my opinion may be suspect—some police officers and firefighters are my friends.

A couple of years ago, my across-the-street neighbor knocked on my front door at 8 a.m. wearing a raincoat over her nightgown. “Look,” she said, pointing to my next-door neighbors’…

Campus safety.

The culture of the community.

The first I heard of illegal drugs was when I read Claude Brown’s Manchild in the Promised Land in my junior English class at Mt. Lebanon High School.