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AMERICA: IN THE late 1700s, George Washington, struggling to pay for the costs of the American Revolution, sought to impose taxes on whiskey on farmers in Pennsylvania and was forced to don his military uniform for the first time since the British were ejected to quell the disturbance.

When firefighters from multiple companies arrive at a scene in the Mon Valley, chances are they're not operating on the same radio system. That means communication between departments has to be relayed through a person who has multiple sets of radios.

"It's strange that we have rules about the oil from your car; you're not allowed to simply flush it down the sewer," says U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa. "So why do we let these drugs, without any kind of regulation, continue to be flushed away in the water supply?"

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Third graders at Streams Elementary School in Upper St. Clair recently had an experience that few adults have - the chance to ask a member of Congress questions they had about issues facing the country.

Republicans for Environmental Protection, a national grassroots organization that includes elected officials as members, praised House passage Tuesday of legislation that designates the Wild Sky Wilderness in Washington State and the Eightmile Wild and Scenic River in Connecticut.

Coach Brendon Aleski's favorite story to tell his Montour High School volleyball team is about what Patrick Kutschbach did in 2000. He led his team to a district title and to the state finals while playing with a broken thumb.

The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) will honor Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), Rep. Grace Napolitano (D-CA), and Policy Advisor to Senator Edward Kennedy, Connie Garner, for their commitment to children and families living with mental illnesses.

The Port Authority of Allegheny County will receive $3.2 million in federal money to buy new buses for its aging fleet, U.S. Reps. Mike Doyle, and Jason Altmire announced last week.

Five years ago, U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy came up with a novel idea that seems to have caught fire. As a fund-raiser for the Washington Community Arts and Culture Center's free programming for children, the Upper St. Clair Republican proposed putting local political, business and civic leaders in front of an audience and letting them perform.

The long-awaited improvements to the intersection of Baptist and Broughton roads in Bethel Park are now one step closer to reality.

U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Upper St. Clair, recently presented municipal leaders a $500,000 check toward the estimated $4 million cost of the project.

Two Peters council members, along with U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Upper St. Clair, and township manager Michael Silvestri met with Postal Service representatives recently to discuss whether the new facility could use a different mailing address, such as Peters, or Venetia-Peters, with the idea being that Venetia would eventually be dropped from the name.

Organizers of the project -- the Revs. Ken Love of Kerr Presbyterian and Patricia Mason of Hebron United Presbyterian Church, also in Penn Hills -- met with U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy, Mr. Kincaid and leaders of several local service agencies to plan ways to stabilize East Hills communities now going through economic and population changes.

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