It was a telling dialogue last week during the Harmony borough council meeting, between council member Don Sims and business owner Josh Meeder, regarding proposed bylaws...
WASHINGTON — Something strange is happening in Washington. We are slowly dismantling the federal government, even as its spending is growing larger.
The paradox is that ...
Environmentalists have made the Keystone XL Pipeline project a litmus test for President Barack Obama and anyone else with an opinion on climate change.
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In 1995, I flew into the Caucasus on a Russian transport plane taking medical personnel back to the front in the province of Chechnya. This was the first of Moscow's two...
The Congressional Budget Office issued a sobering report this week that projected how many people will choose to work less because of the effects of the Affordable Care ...
WASHINGTON — Swedish researchers report that antioxidants make cancers worse in mice. It’s already known that the antioxidant beta-carotene exacerbates lung cancers in h...
In 1968, the federal minimum wage increased from $1.40 an hour to $1.60. Minimum-wage workers have not had it so good ever since.
In today’s dollars, that hourly pay amo...
The conventional wisdom is that this fall’s congressional election will be all about Obamacare. Republicans, it’s argued, will try to expand their majority in the House ...
CLEARWATER, Fla. — Because it is this year’s first federal election, attention must be paid to the March 11 voting to fill the congressional seat vacated by the death in...
After all the ink that’s been spilled lamenting congressional dysfunction in the last couple of years, the impending passage of the $956 billion farm bill has us yearnin...
