On May 23, 2003, I attended the Baghdad news conference at which the U.S. viceroy, Paul Bremer, announced he was dissolving the Iraqi army.
I thought of that day when I ...
There’s always been something sort of milestone-ish about 20 years. It’s accepted in most places as the standard to measure success in employment (20 years with the same...
It still could be the political deal of the decade for Pennsylvanians — if Harrisburg doesn’t screw it up.
Gov. Tom Wolf continues to push for his severance tax on the n...
The Amtrak crash outside of Philadelphia was an invitation for practically every politician in the Northeast and every transit expert in America to complain about lack o...
It will take a geography lesson to understand an ongoing land-use dispute involving Harmony Borough.
On a map, the history-rich community resembles an isoceles triangle ...
America’s coastal communities got some disturbing news recently when Interior Secretary Sally Jewell pledged to open “vast areas” of the ocean to oil drilling.
Under the...
When a bridge falls, when a water main fails, or when a train crashes, news crews and commentators report on the sorry state of our nation’s infrastructure. Policymakers...
An editorial last week about Tuesday’s primary discussed the 10 Republican candidates for Butler County commissioner and how the crowded ballot makes each vote crucial t...
Last year, Americans paid nearly $1.4 trillion in federal individual income taxes — plus sales taxes, fuel taxes, property taxes, excise taxes, you name it. Yet, there’s...
There’s no way around it — Jeb Bush fumbled this one.
It took him three whiffs at a question he should have fully anticipated before he got remotely close to an answer, ...
