Another day, another outcry from President Barack Obama — this one in Newport News, Va. — about the parade of horribles that will arrive today when automatic federal spe...
The tough stance against public nuisances adopted by Seven Fields Borough Council on Monday should be watched by other communities with such problems. If the new law is ...
Two thousand, two hundred seventy-two.
Keep that number in mind as you read this editorial.
The online journal Slate estimates that 2,272 is the number of Americans who ...
The wholesale reduction in federal spending now looming for week’s end was once thought to be so horrible, so disastrous for the national economy, that responsible leade...
One of the values we hold most highly in the United States and the Western world is the free circulation of ideas. The Founding Fathers and defenders of constitutional g...
By now, we’ve all seen and heard the parade of public officials predicting doom and gloom if the $85 billion budget “sequester” kicks in on March 1. Both sides of the ai...
I had the privilege of being with a group of newspaper publishers at the Georgia Press Association’s winter gathering in Atlanta.
It is one of those times I wish my mom...
WASHINGTON — Even during this desultory economic recovery, one industry thrives — the manufacture of synthetic hysteria. It is, however, inaccurate to accuse the Hysteri...
Sometimes it seems like you just can’t win. For example, on one hand, Republicans criticize President Obama for not being more specific about the spending he would reduc...
President Barack Obama is stepping up the pressure on Congress to avoid the sequester, across-the-board cuts to federal government spending.
The president’s the-sky-will...
