On Wednesday Gov. Tom Wolf urged legislators to work together and pass into law an extensive lineup of legislation addressing Pennsylvania’s opioid crisis. The bills, si...
Politicians have a special knack for complicating things.
A mandatory retirement age for judges, for example. How hard can it be to ask Pennsylvania voters to consider r...
What are the three branches of the U.S. federal government?
What are the first three words of the U.S. Constitution?
Who is one of your state’s U.S. senators right now?
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The entertainment value of Monday’s presidential debate was undeniable: Rarely has it seemed that a 90-minute debate transpired so quickly as the first head-to-head enco...
Sometimes the heat of the moment obscures the significance of an instant.
That might have been the case during discussion of a proposed anti-discrimination ordinance at ...
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Thirty-six years in solitary confinement is simply too long. It’s inhumane; cruel and unusual; counterproductive and lazy.
That’s the story...
The ethical bar for legislators in Pennsylvania is already appallingly low. But state Rep. Leslie Acosta, a Democrat from Philadelphia, has managed to drag it even deepe...
We’re up against a demographic crunch in central Butler County — in the Butler School District, to be specific — and the community needs to consider adopting a long-term...
Remember when the Walldogs came to Butler last summer? Before the sign painters ever got here, they sent an advance party one week early to whitewash the masonry with pr...
Sometimes it’s hard to connect the dots because the dots move around so quickly.
Ford Motor Company created a major stir last week when CEO Mark Fields announced that al...
