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Latest PSSAs confirm importance of having evaluation instrument

The Pennsylvania System of School Assessment testing, which began in 1995 as the Pennsylvania Assessment Test, has generated considerable controversy throughout its exis...

September 06, 2007 Our Opinion

Scandals rule politics:from sex-sting to fugitive fund-raiser

Here's one way for politicians to know they've hit rock bottom: Authors don't want a book plug from them. The unthinkable happened after President Bush, urging patience ...

September 05, 2007 Other Voices

Check your statements....

loriemccurry@gmail.com Check and re-check your dr. bills & statements. I just found out that after over 11 years a local dr. office made a mistake and billed me for over...

September 05, 2007 Letters to the Editor

U.S. must avoid disaster when we exit Iraq

Now that the Labor Day weekend has passed, the big Iraq show will begin in the nation's capital. Congress will receive a series of new Iraq assessments, leading up to th...

September 05, 2007 Other Voices

Bursting of the real estate bubble was overdue, will help in long run

The real estate bubble, driven in part by aggressive lenders and loosened financial standards, has burst. Much like the dot-com speculation on Wall Street nearly a decad...

September 05, 2007 Our Opinion

State probe, federal prosecution will shine light on Harrisburg

Since former state Rep. Michael Veon made the customary transition from defeated state lawmaker to Harrisburg lobbyist, his name has mostly been out of the news. That ch...

September 04, 2007 Other Voices

People are strange.

I didn't see anger issues here at all. I saw someone RESPECTFULLY sharing their opinion. If you don't agree, can't you just say that and why you don't agree? How iron...

September 04, 2007 Letters to the Editor

Europe offers lessons about war, peace

OMAHA BEACH, Normandy — On a bluff above the sand and a half a mile from the ocean's edge at low tide, which was the condition when the first allied soldiers left their ...

September 04, 2007 Other Voices

OTHER VOICES

With a timely release of new data, the U.S. Census Bureau may just help end one standoff between President Bush and Congress. The sticky issue: whether to expand the suc...

September 04, 2007 Other Voices

Jake & Eric V.

Jake, Thank you for the compliment. They try to be well behaved, but they sure aren't angels! LOL! As far as what a teacher should do. I can honestly say I'm not e...

September 04, 2007 Letters to the Editor

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