By all accounts, at the root of recent sightings in Butler County is a success story: the comeback of the black bear in Pennsylvania.
It’s also the root of a problem: mo...
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a letter written by John Adams to his wife, Abigail, on July 3, 1776, in Philadelphia. It was the day after the Declaration of Indepe...
Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives get an ‘F’ for effort.
Perhaps it was the afterglow of having produced an on-time and complete state budget for the ...
There’s a fable from India about six blind men entering the courtyard of the rajah and encountering an elephant. Each of them reaches out and touches a different part. E...
The United States Supreme Court this week ruled that unions don’t have the right to collect dues from employees who decline membership in the union. The 5-4 decision ove...
With good reason, school safety is a hot topic in Pennsylvania and around the country.
What should be done to improve safety for students, teachers and administrators at...
In the wake of racist comments online last weekend by a Freeport Volunteer Fire Department firefighter and officer, we’re compelled to do two things:
First, we want to a...
Hey, Mike Kelly. Here’s some practical advice.
Watch how Maxine Waters operates. You might learn something from your colleague in California. The Democratic congresswoma...
“You do it to yourself/ you do/and that’s why it really hurts,” sings Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, on the single “Just,” which is the seventh track of the band’s 1995 ...
Lancaster Township supervisors this week found themselves between a proverbial rock and hard place, when residents inundated the board’s monthly meeting to express conce...
