Most of the debate over Gov. Tom Corbett’s budget proposal has focused on cuts to higher education. Corbett campaigned on not raising taxes and he has stuck to that pled...
WASHINGTON — Dear Mitt: Consider me a neighbor leaning over the picket fence. You have a picket fence, don’t you? An ivy-covered wall? Fine, I’ll get a ladder.
This is w...
One of “Saturday Night Live’s” funniest 1970s gags involved the Point-Counterpoint debates between fake newscasters Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin, punctuated by Aykroyd’s ...
It’s very tough to make a painful sacrifice if you see little chance that it will lead to something good for yourself or someone you care about.
That’s the position Gree...
It would be easy to call the gridlock in Congress laughable, except for the real impact it has on our everyday lives — such as the gridlock on highways.
Case in point is...
Whether state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe succeeds in blocking Seneca Valley School District’s desire to raise its property tax beyond what is permitted under state law will pla...
The legacy of political and social scientist James Q. Wilson, who died last week at age 80, is the focus of George Will’s column on this page.
Wilson was best known for ...
WASHINGTON — The most accomplished social scientist of the last half-century would occasionally visit his friend and Harvard colleague Pat Moynihan at the White House wh...
WASHINGTON — It turns out that “budget sequestration,” portrayed as an evenhanded way to spur bipartisan negotiations over budget deficits, is actually a dagger aimed at...
The problems holding up an insurance settlement for Zelienople’s Kaufman House restaurant aren’t being disclosed because of the possibility of legal action. But there ar...
