Pennsylvania lawmakers have a remarkable talent for evading accountability.They won鈥檛 increase the state government鈥檚 percentage of school funding because that would require increases in state taxes. Instead, they leave it to local school boards to raise property taxes and absorb the ...
We all agree that the safety of our children and citizens is the top priority of elected officials, and certainly a faster, well-coordinated response to any threatening incident is a necessity.For decades, the Incident Command System has provided a standardized approach to the command, control, ...
George Santos tells whoppers.That would be funny if it wasn鈥檛 so sad.The 34-year-old Republican is about to become a brand-new U.S. congressman from New York鈥檚 Third Congressional District.Unfortunately, he鈥檚 already carrying a lot of baggage.Santos has difficulty proving that anything in ...
Kathy Whitworth died last week. She was 83 and dropped dead at a holiday party, apparently a festive affair. It was said she was her usual self moments before she died: convivial, happy, looking ahead.Whitworth was professional golf鈥檚 winningest player, with 88 tournament championships. Asked ...
Wasn鈥檛 it just yesterday that we were all nervous about Y2K?You remember that 鈥� some folks were hoarding food and water in the midst of overheated predictions that the transition from Dec. 31, 1999, to Jan. 1, 2000, would lead to computer meltdowns, planes falling from the sky and all ...
<strong>Cheers:</strong> One month ago, Pam Snyder became a former state representative following almost a decade in Harrisburg, and, before that, almost a decade as a county commissioner in Greene County. You鈥檇 be hard-pressed to find anyone in the region who is ...
