As the one-year anniversary of the Feb. 13, 2009, commuter airline crash near Buffalo, N.Y., approaches, there are conflicting views over how much safety standards for r...
I think that requiring calorie information is appropriate for larger chain restaurants, but less so for smaller, local eateries. While it's easy for franchises with sta...
Last week showed just how hard it will be to dig the country out of its multitrillion-dollar fiscal hole.
The Senate rejected, 53-46, the creation of a "fiscal future" c...
In the last two weeks, President Obama finally proposed tough new restrictions on the big banks, and then he underlined them in his State of the Union speech. It's a sta...
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I prefer to use common sense when ordering at a restaurant. Unfortunately, we know what the good choices are, but usually like something that is unhealthy. Governm...
"Indian giver," now regarded by many as an offensive term because of its negative reference to Native Americans, refers to a person who gives something and then asks for...
Congress long ago discovered a great way to control Medicare spending — at least on paper.
It sets spending targets. If they're not met, fees paid to doctors, hospitals ...
WASHINGTON — The real scandal surrounding the failed Christmas Day airline bombing was not the fact that a terrorist got on a plane — that can happen to any administrati...
Although chastened by political and legislative defeats recently, President Obama came out swinging in his address to Congress, exhorting Demo-crats to stay the course o...
Given the scandalous details surrounding the scheme by two Luzerne County judges to take kickbacks for placing children in juvenile detention centers, including one in B...
