One of the greatly anticipated grand pillars of Gov. Tom Corbett’s $28 billion budget package has turned out rather spindly.
The Senate version of a state liquor privat...
There’s a good reason why we call it an impact fee — the money Pennsylvania collects from natural gas companies for each well they maintain.
Gas producers will pay about...
It probably would not have taken an ethnic slur to get Richard Allan fired. But a racially charged comment, emailed via government computer from Allan to his wife, made ...
Cooper's Lake Campground in western Butler County has something in common with Elihu Phinney's farm in upstate New York. Their point of commonality comes into focus this...
Construction seems to be a constant condition at Slippery Rock University, where five building projects worth a combined $27 million are scheduled to begin this year at ...
For many it’s a knee-jerk impulse, when reading about a merger of nonprofit service agencies, to suspect a hostile takeover of one agency by the other and a plunder of i...
Specialty courts, such as DUI court and drug court, offer creative options for treating people found guilty of nonviolent crimes. The programs keep the offenders out of ...
NEW YORK — In February 1972, Richard Nixon went to China and restored Sino-U.S. relations that had been broken for 23 years. Nixon held a series of crucial meetings with...
It was four presidential elections ago when the world first became aware of “hanging chads” and “dimpled chads” — descriptions of incomplete punctures on paper ballots —...
When Cecelia Yauger took the helm of Midwestern Intermediate Unit IV six years ago, she did so with a unanimous vote of the MIU’s board of directors and a ringing endors...
