At colleges in California and across the country, students gathered early this month to protest budget cuts targeting financial support for higher education. The student...
Here's a question that's not being asked in the health care debate: How much medical care do we want in our lives? It's something we should be discussing.
Start with the...
The financial meltdown — triggered by incompetence, greed and outright fraud on Wall Street — has slammed the Sacramento, Calif., region like few other places in the cou...
If the No Child Left Behind Act is to be overhauled — and it should be — the new version should strip away the law's overly prescriptive notions of what constitutes impr...
What is going on with Texas Jihad Conservatives rewriting the history books to say what they want, instead of what really happened? Sounds to me like censorship - someth...
Anyone caught stealing from the taxpayers should serve prison time. There should be no exceptions.
But if a plea agreement filed Monday is accepted, a former head of the...
April 1 is officially "Census Day" — no fooling!
Article I, Section 2, of the Constitution requires the populations of the various states to be enumerated every 10 years...
When was the last time the U.S. House was the scene of a race to save money?
Last Wednesday, Democratic leaders decreed that they will ban earmarks — special, under-the-...
WASHINGTON — As Democrats consider shoving health care reform through the House with a process known as "deem and pass," it is helpful to return to square one and ask: W...
If there weren't disagreements on the Evans City Borough Council over the way business is being conducted, it's unlikely that some borough officials would be calling for...