When it was enacted by the Pennsylvania Legislature after the Johnstown Flood of 1936, the so-called Johnstown Flood Tax was intended to be a temporary levy to help the ...
Seeing Rielle Hunter sprawled like an aging model on the pages of GQ raises once again the question: Should there be a legal right to commit adultery?
The ACLU says yes,...
WASHINGTON — It will surprise few to learn that the big picture often slips unnoticed past Washington's window.
The tea party movement — organic, angry and thriving — is...
The decomposing bodies of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent and his pilot are discovered wrapped in plastic bags at a ranch about 60 miles from the Guadalajar...
Many Butler School District taxpayers might accept $10,000 as a reasonable price to pay for keeping the date of the district's graduation ceremony — June 4 — unchanged.
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WASHINGTON — As congressional Democrats plotted their end-game strategy for health care reform, the question looming in their minds was: How do we reduce our risks in th...
WASHINGTON — Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, like many liberals, seems afflicted by Sixties Nostalgia Syndrome, a longing for the high drama and moral clarity of the...
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...
