There has always been a human toll. Entire occupations have vanished. In the early 1900s, there were 238,000 blacksmiths and 109,000 carriage and harness makers.
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WASHINGTON — Barack Obama’s tone of mild exasperation when tutoring the public often makes his pronouncements grating even when they are sensible. As was his recent sugg...
With about two months before the April 15 deadline for filing federal income taxes, many taxpayers are beginning to think about their tax returns — and in many cases the...
WASHINGTON — His secretary of defense says “the world is exploding all over.” His attorney general says that the threat of terror “keeps me up at night.” The world bears...
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The Pennsylvania Game Commission recently removed the bald eagle from the state’s endangered and threatened species lists, capping one of the most successful spec...
President Barack Obama’s suggestion Wednesday that he would be amenable to “limited” deployment of U.S. ground troops to combat the so-called Islamic State signals a cha...
A full-time worker earning minimum wage in Pennsylvania grosses $15,000 a year.
That’s poverty for any employee supporting more than just themselves.
For individuals, th...
When he entered the White House in 2009, Barack Obama had grand ambitions in foreign policy. He planned to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, build a better...
WASHINGTON — As soon as the news broke Tuesday evening, anyone near a TV, radio or computer heard that three Muslim students were murdered near the University of North C...
There’s no sense to be made in the execution-style murders of three young adults in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Tuesday. The killings should shock and anger us universally.
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