The very term — storm chaser — suggests thrill and adventure. It conjures images of swashbuckling weather junkies who tempt fate in pursuit of dramatic video or close en...
Congress is again debating what to do about interest rates for federal student loans, which are set to double July 1, to 6.8 percent. Several proposed solutions are bein...
Devastating storms like Sandy last fall are increasing in number, and unemployment remains dangerously high. Hurricanes and unemployment are parts of two different, dang...
The United States has about 180 B61 gravity nuclear bombs based in Europe. They are the detritus of the cold war, tactical weapons deployed in Belgium, Germany, Italy, t...
The “tea party” is back and is brewing trouble for the Republican establishment.
After the GOP debacle in the 2012 election, when Republicans not only failed to win the ...
When Cecelia Yauger took the helm of Midwestern Intermediate Unit IV six years ago, she did so with a unanimous vote of the MIU’s board of directors and a ringing endors...
WASHINGTON — Let me admit up front: I am a Paul Volcker fan. As everyone should know, Volcker became chairman of the Federal Reserve in 1979 when double-digit inflation ...
If there is anyone at the Pentagon or in Congress who didn’t see sexual assaults in the military as an urgent problem, the past few days should make things crystal clear...
When assigned an important and infrequent task, it’s helpful to study others going about the same process and to adopt their best ideas. A good example of this is develo...
Congress is once again taking up the farm bill — and continuing to treat agriculture like it was 1933, not 2013. The result: billions of taxpayer dollars going to waste....
