Even though a congressman boasts that his bill signed into law in January will assure steps are taken to safeguard new shale-gas pipelines snaking across Pennsylvania, s...
With health care in the news again as the U.S. Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of the 2010 health care reform law, it’s a good time to refocus the nation’s...
If the hospital doesn't go bankrupt, we pay through higher premiums. I really don't see the Republican opposition to making people pay for something that they use. The...
WASHINGTON — Call it Richard Nixon’s revenge.
Amid election-year furor over high gasoline prices, something significant has happened to America’s energy outlook. We are ...
No one could have predicted that oil prices would rise to today’s levels. Saudi Arabia’s oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, says they are irrationally high, pointing out that w...
Reports of trusted employees or volunteers stealing from nonprofit organizations are disturbingly common. Every few months, it seems, there’s a story of a nonprofit that...
In 2009, President Obama was asked whether the individual mandate in his healthcare plan was really just a tax in disguise. “I absolutely reject that notion,” he respond...
In the course of less than a week, Butler lost two community leaders, Andrew Yaracs Jr. and Abie Abraham. The two men affected the lives of thousands of people in the Bu...
With April just around the corner, millions of Americans are thinking about taxes and the April 17 deadline for filing federal income taxes.
But when most people think a...