Describing the routine use of antibiotics in meat and poultry production as a “serious threat to public health,” the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2010 called on ...
After more than a year of bitter partisan fighting, Congress on Thursday finally reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act, including new provisions that will extend t...
WASHINGTON — “The worst-case scenario for us,” a leading anti-budget-cuts lobbyist told the Washington Post, “is the sequester hits and nothing bad really happens.”
Thin...
Another day, another outcry from President Barack Obama — this one in Newport News, Va. — about the parade of horribles that will arrive today when automatic federal spe...
The tough stance against public nuisances adopted by Seven Fields Borough Council on Monday should be watched by other communities with such problems. If the new law is ...
Two thousand, two hundred seventy-two.
Keep that number in mind as you read this editorial.
The online journal Slate estimates that 2,272 is the number of Americans who ...
The wholesale reduction in federal spending now looming for week’s end was once thought to be so horrible, so disastrous for the national economy, that responsible leade...
One of the values we hold most highly in the United States and the Western world is the free circulation of ideas. The Founding Fathers and defenders of constitutional g...
Gov. Tom Corbett is proposing reforms to ease the burden on taxpayers posed by the two massive pension funds for state employees and public school teachers that are curr...
By now, we’ve all seen and heard the parade of public officials predicting doom and gloom if the $85 billion budget “sequester” kicks in on March 1. Both sides of the ai...
