One year ago the Butler School Board resolved not to raise the property tax rate by more than 3.3 percent for the 2017-18 school year, keeping any anticipated tax increa...
There are few — if any — members of Congress who started out like Rep. Pat Meehan of the Philadelphia suburbs, who got trained as a hockey ref by the NHL before he went ...
Perhaps this is the week that reality finally starts to set in for Republicans who control both chambers of the state’s General Assembly.
On Monday the state Supreme Cou...
The government shutdown is ending, but the breakdown continues. The day-to-day bickering in Washington might seem petty, but the core conflicts underlying the daily stri...
Despite media hysteria during the recently deceased government shutdown, the reality is the United States has had such political paralysis on average every 30 months for...
If the name Taylor Weyeneth rings a tiny bell in your head, then you might be related to him. Otherwise, the 24-year-old was until a week ago an unknown if powerful memb...
Legislation requires bargaining, and bargaining requires bargaining chips, which are evaluated, offered, withdrawn and exchanged until consensus is achieved.
Give me mor...
“Alea iacta est.”
“The die is cast.”
— Julius Caesar
The shutdown ended Monday, at least for now. That’s good for the millions of people who depend on federal services, ...
In an attempt to avoid a looming federal government shutdown on Friday, it seems that children — again — have been made a pawn in a political debate. That’s regrettable....
It’s troubling, but certainly no surprise, that another recommendation that Pennsylvania State Police stop investigating shootings by their own troopers has been brushed...
