Spare a little sympathy, if you can, for John A. Boehner of Ohio, speaker of the House of Representatives.
On paper, he’s the most powerful Republican in the land. In pr...
Friday, the Labor Department reported the economy added 155,000 jobs in December — substantially less than is needed to pull unemployment down to acceptable levels.
The ...
WASHINGTON — Symbolic of the debate we’re not having about government’s size and role — the essence of the deficit problem — is the future of farm subsidies. Running $10...
The city of Butler attracts big crowds for most of its downtown events throughout the year. It should be able to do likewise on New Year’s Eve, even given the uncertaint...
Our divided, gridlocked political system seems incapable of resolving the government’s long-term deficit problem.
Sometimes members of Congress sound like they’re still ...
Congress avoided the cliff, but it did not get off the mountain. That is the problem.
The mountain is the budget deficit. The country needs to get down the mountain. Las...
This state's Republican lawmakers have for the most part been quiet about Gov. Tom Corbett's move to privatize the Pennsylvania Lottery.
Democrats have complained about ...
Gov. Tom Corbett surprised many in the state yesterday when he announced a lawsuit against the NCAA over the fines and punishments against Penn State University over the...
WASHINGTON — The rout was complete, the retreat disorderly. President Obama got his tax hikes — naked of spending cuts — passed by the ostensibly Republican House of Rep...
President Barack Obama said all the right things Sunday about immigration reform. The president told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he is serious about getting Congress to ...
