Two recent events have cast some doubt about the seemingly bright future of fracking in various parts of the country. The first has to do with a few voter-driven efforts...
Looking to save some money in financing costs, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission is actively soliciting wealthy Chinese investors to help pay for a long-sought connec...
Two years ago, a Taliban gunman boarded a school bus in Pakistan and fired a shot that outraged the world. He seriously wounded 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai. She recover...
WASHINGTON — The Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee issued a fascinating and largely overlooked report the other day highlighting how little Congress and the White...
Butler School District is getting closer to choosing a consolidation plan. It has not been an easy process, but it has been an engaging one.
More than 300 people attende...
U.S. health care spending has never grown as slowly as it did last year.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was in the Oval Office when the U.S. government began recording health-care...
Gov.-elect Tom Wolf is setting the groundwork for an administration he vows will be financially transparent.
Wolf says he won’t accept a salary or live in the governor’s...
Life is full of unpleasant events and lousy surprises, and many of them are beyond remedy. Most people learn that, often, you just have to suck it up and move on. You ca...
When gas prices soar, Americans wail. Inevitably Congress launches an “investigation” and discovers-over and over again that by and large prices are the result of market...
The trillion-dollar spending bill that the House of Representatives passed last week had something for everyone to hate. But it was still a step, however awkward, toward...
