Politicians often "talk around" controversial issues, rather than provide what most people would regard as a "straight answer." The exercise involves politicians answeri...
U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, the new chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, brought up an issue Thursday that is deserving of much more discussion in the months ahead a...
Taxpayers of the South Butler School District should respect the fact that the school board is being cautious about granting LERTA (Local Economic Revitalization Tax Act...
Struggling US Airways needs more competition from low-fare carriers just about as much as it needs angry customers and negative publicity. In the past two weeks, it's go...
If there is a solution to the loss of manufacturing jobs in Pennsylvania - the state lost at least 12,500 such jobs in 2004 through November, 1.8 percent of all such job...
Though it took a few days for much of the world to grasp the scope of the death and devastation resulting from the tsunami that his southeast Asia over Christmas weekend...
The Herman area sewage issue currently facing the Summit Township supervisors isn't a situation unique to that municipality. Over the past 30 or 40 years, other municipa...
Pennsylvania lawmakers should make clarifications in the commonwealth's 2002 "cyberschool" law regarding children of families who maintain a Pennsylvania residence but a...
Barnett Selling's positive attitude in the aftermath of a Christmas Day fire that destroyed a building housing his business could not go without notice.
Selling, who own...
Jan Egeland, the United Nations humanitarian aid chief, was wrong in criticizing the generosity of "rich countries" and "Western countries" in the wake of last weekend's...
