Barack Obama’s final State of the Union speech, delivered last week, did not follow the script of previous speeches as a laundry list of things a president wants to acco...
WASHINGTON — The China bubble has burst. No longer are the country’s economic managers viewed as magicians who can orchestrate rapid growth whatever the obstacles. No on...
After a series of credit downgrades for the state government and chaos for public school districts and social service agencies, Pennsylvania’s government still is withou...
A rare State of the Union call to action reached Americans stereophonically Tuesday night, resonating through our speakers from the left and the right.
It had nothing to...
WASHINGTON — President Obama’s Tuesday night address to Congress was less about the state of the union than the state of the presidency. And the state of this presidency...
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It might seem strange to cheer the shrinking of local government, but the reduction of Eau Claire’s borough council from seven members to five — a process that wi...
Again and again on the campaign trail, the presidential candidates have been faced by America’s rising concern about addiction, particularly to opioid painkillers and he...
Regardless of how you view the Affordable Care Act, derisively called Obamacare, the congressional attempt to repeal it last week was an exercise in futility and politic...
The contrast couldn’t have been greater. And it’s one Americans will see over and over throughout 2016.
For months, Republican presidential candidates have used their de...
Two hundred days into a state budget impasse, Rep. Brian Ellis insists there’s no impasse at all.
“We finished the budget,” the Republican from Butler told a Harrisburg ...
