In last weekend鈥檚 Observer-Reporter, Buffalo Township in Washington County and Greensboro borough in Greene County placed legal notices for meetings in December where 2023 budgets will be considered for adoption. The Tri-County Joint Municipal Authority placed a notice for a special meeting ...
<strong>Cheers:</strong> Nearly 1,100 donors supported Fayette Gives this year, raising $575,516 for 88 local nonprofits. The outpouring of donations during the Community Foundation of Fayette County鈥檚 12-hour day-of-giving event is a heartwarming reminder of how ...
The 14-school Pennsylvania State System of High Education, or PASSHE, has been beset with many woes over the past dozen years.There鈥檚 the tanking enrollment. Then there鈥檚 a darn-near open acceptance policy for those who do enroll, which does a disservice to those wholly unprepared for ...
Throughout most of Richard Reeves鈥� excellent new book, 鈥淥f Boys and Men,鈥� I wasn鈥檛 just nodding along; I was foot-stomping. As a culture, we remain stubbornly attached to the notion that girls and women need encouragement to bring them into full equality with males in school, in the ...
As a state lawmaker, I鈥檓 very concerned with the alarming number of vacancies in our commonwealth鈥檚 prison system, and the number is only growing.The latest numbers from the Department of Corrections reveal there are 901 vacancies for corrections officers, positions that keep our prisons ...
When I started writing as my passionate hobby, things were much different. My ongoing quest for knowledge, academic credentials, and work experiences was enough to add a level of acceptance to my written opinions. I had paid my proverbial dues.If I had then quoted a two-time Pulitzer Prize ...
