WASHINGTON — Barack Obama's considerable political capital, earned on Election Day 2008, is spent. Well spent, mind you, on the enactment of a highly ideological agenda ...
With 9.5 percent of U.S. workers still looking for jobs unable to find one, there is little doubt that extending unemployment benefits would help the ones struggling to ...
From afar, Washington increasingly looks as if it has descended into tribalism. We've always had our factions, so some of the splintering is not new. But the degree to w...
Annual online sales across the United States will account for nearly $150 billion in 2010. But cash-strapped states, including California, won't get more than a fraction...
The first long chapter of Barack Obama's presidency came to an end last week when the Senate finally passed its sweeping financial regulation bill. Obama's first 18 mont...
Remnants of bipartisanship still exist in Washington after all.
Three Republican senators voted for the landmark bill to overhaul the financial-regulatory system, which ...
As Cranberry goes, so goes the region.
Just about a year ago, Cranberry Township adopted a major new comprehensive plan. It was a huge undertaking and it had a horizon o...
WASHINGTON — When Congress stays in session during the dog days of a Washington summer, rebellion always is bubbling just beneath the surface. And sure enough, it erupte...
The passage of sweeping financial regulation — on the same day the BP oil spill appears to finally have been plugged — provides a nice boost to the Obama administration'...
As Congress begins the debate again over federal cap-and-trade/climate-change legislation, Pennsylvanians need to wade through the thick air to get a true assessment of ...
