A little noticed news item last week should have Pennsylvanians worried. Fitch, a credit-rating agency, downgraded the state’s $11 billion of outstanding bonds to AA, fr...
These days the news from abroad is mostly grim. So it was inspiring last week to watch Malala Yousafzai — the Pakistani teen shot in the head by the Taliban because of h...
The U.S. Senate found a sliver of compromise last week. All it took was a rare bipartisan gathering.
The Monday night confab of 98 of 100 senators in the Old Senate Cham...
Musical cheers to Dalton Foreaker, a 5-year-old Cranberry kid with a captivating grin, and his new friends in the rock band named fun.
Dalton has autism. There are few m...
Your doctor hands you a prescription for a blood pressure drug. But is it the right one for you?
You’re searching for a new primary-care physician. Is there a way you ca...
Last week it was announced that the British Bankers’ Association had sold Libor to NYSE Euronext, the company that operates the New York Stock Exchange. The news brought...
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) is responsible for balancing the interests of public utilities and customers. The state agency reviews — and approves, r...
It’s confirmed: We have grown world-weary.
A just-released Pew Research report finds that near-record levels of Americans, almost half, believe the U.S. should mind its ...
The move by the U.S. House last week to cut food stamp aid out of the farm bill legislation may have been mostly symbolic, but that doesn’t make it any less outrageous.
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The Internal Revenue Service has been rightly criticized for wasting millions of dollars on conferences, including a single California event that cost $4.1 million and f...
