The controversial pay-raise vote of 2005 helped launch the current reform movement in Harrisburg by revealing to voters many other failings in the state legislature. A s...
Connoquenessing Borough isn't unique in not being able to attract broad interest for service on the town's governing council. Other small communities with small populati...
In the past, few people in Pennsylvania paid attention to — or cared about — the state Supreme Court. But that began to change in the summer of 2005, when news coverage ...
A story in Sunday's edition of the Butler Eagle emanating from Slippery Rock Township should serve as a wake-up call for Butler city officials.
In Slippery Rock Township...
When compared with most other states, Pennsylvania is long overdue in regulating "assisted living" facilities for the benefit of seniors and disabled adults with low-to-...
With this year's Democratic takeover of Congress, voters were promised a new culture of openness and an end to the "culture of corruption," as the previous Republican-co...
For consumers, more competition is generally better than less competition. For that reason, the proposed merger of the state's two largest health insurers, Highmark, Inc...
Their political views may seem miles apart. But Elizabeth Edwards, wife of presidential candidate John Edwards, and White House press secretary Tony Snow clearly have at...
If the last 100 years were the American Century, we now may be living in the Chinese sequel. At the very least, this will be a century when Americans pay a disproportion...
Prior to the license plate replacement program that resulted in the current Pennsylvania plates, the administration of former Gov. Tom Ridge conducted a study of how bes...
