The ongoing hunt for suspected cop-killer Eric Frein looks more and more like an episode from the Animal Planet television series “Finding Bigfoot.” A scrap of obscure e...
For the past week or so, the news has been offering daily updates on the deadly Ebola virus. There have been reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
Who could have predicted a Pakistani teenager would become the next superstar of the women’s rights movement?
At age 17, Malala Yousafzai last week became the youngest-e...
It's remarkable and fun sometimes to consider how one person's presence can change the way a community sees itself.
Daniel Dickey is a good example. The 2007 graduate of...
News this week that the Department of Veterans Affairs would fire four senior administrators was seen as encouraging. The firings are in response to scandals — notably t...
Across Pennsylvania about a decade ago, school board directors bought into complex financial deals called “swaptions” sold by Wall Street bankers. The gamble on swaption...
The altered plan for Butler’s Centre City project, which would eliminate parking to save money, calls to mind a story about the older gentleman who set out to hand-deliv...
Increased U.S. exports is normally good news. More American-made cars, trucks or medical devices going overseas is seen as an undisputed win.
Plans to export natural gas...
The first heads rolled late last week in the growing scandal surrounding office emails containing pornography in the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office. Gov. Tom Cor...
The phrase “aging infrastructure” generally brings to mind deteriorating roads and bridges. That’s reasonable, because roads and bridges are the most visible part of the...
