After last week’s election, talk in Washington turned to avoiding the “fiscal cliff.” That means Democrats and Republicans negotiating a so-called grand bargain to avoid...
It wasn’t exactly a Kumbaya moment, but top congressional Republicans offered Wednesday to meet the president halfway when it comes to solving the government’s fiscal wo...
Both the Mars School District and Mars Area Education Association will benefit in the new two-year contract ratified by the school board and teachers union last week.
Th...
Democrats and Republicans in Washington each had spent two years counting on Tuesday’s election to give their party the upper hand in their furious cage match over feder...
A healthy discussion is taking place in Zelienople over the issue of delinquent electric and water bills, and the borough council, commendably, is not being hasty in imp...
So for all that cash (billions) spent to fund all that campaigning (relentless) and all those ads (millions), what do we get? The same president, the same party running ...
WASHINGTON — It’s still about jobs. What will determine the core success of President Obama’s second term is progress — or the lack thereof — in reducing long-term unemp...
Smoke detectors are an inexpensive way to protect lives and property.
That fact was emphasized last week during what can be regarded as a careless blaze in the 300 block...
Second terms have rarely been kind to American presidents.
Our last two-term leader, George W. Bush, ended his tenure with a financial crash so disastrous that his own p...
No one should be surprised that the presidential election has been so close. For weeks, opinion polls have told us it would be.
Now that Election Day is done, there is n...
