On Thursday morning, reflecting on the end of the partial government shutdown, President Barack Obama said “The American people are completely fed up with Washington.” H...
It appeared to be spontaneous: about 15 people demonstrating Tuesday in front of the regional office of U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly in Sharon, Pa. On Wednesday, that city’s new...
There were no arrests or charges, but it amounted to massive felony theft Saturday when the national electronic benefit transfer (EBT) network failed, briefly enabling f...
Let’s put an end to a growing misperception. Selling Sunnyview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center to a private operator is not the same thing as killing or even weakening...
A cheer of gratitude goes out to Lynn Chapman of Conneaut, Ohio. Chapman made extraordinary efforts to reunite a former Butler man and military veteran with his lost Pur...
It’s been encouraging to see generally positive responses from school officials over the newly released school rating system and scores by the state education department...
As we speed through the digital information age, it’s crucial to blaze our trail with reminders to consider the source. Tuesday’s front-page story about adult illiteracy...
A few weeks ago, a lawsuit filed by state officials in Pennsylvania and Ohio over allegedly fraudulent fundraising efforts for several fire deparments in the area, inclu...
Distractions seem to abound as the Supreme Court convened Monday amid a federal government shutdown and a plethora of requests from conservative groups to reverse prior ...
There’s a right way to run a government. This isn’t it.
Americans like to brag — and they earnestly and rightly believe — that their government works better than any oth...
