This column will be a little bit self-indulgent (in other words, all about me), but I want to write it because this subject does matter in a larger sense.The personal stories about Obamacare these last couple months overwhelmingly have been about people who lost their coverage because their ...
Coming on the heels of a report noting that total revenue from Pennsylvania slot machines for November was down 1.3 percent from last November, the state Senate last week passed a resolution, calling for a study of gambling in Pennsylvania, including the possibility of legalizing online ...
It started out innocently enough.Worried about declining revenues, social clubs, veterans groups and volunteer firefighter departments got together back in 2012 and requested that the state legislature make some changes to the small games of chance law that hadn鈥檛 been updated since it was ...
I figured now that Thanksgiving is behind us and we鈥檝e loosened our belts a notch, it鈥檚 time to talk about America鈥檚 dreaded 鈥渙besity epidemic.鈥滻 put 鈥渙besity epidemic鈥� in scare quotes not because I don鈥檛 believe that the health of Americans has taken a nosedive in the last few ...
Local governments in Pennsylvania and in some cases, the state government, have long been required by state law to publicly advertise meeting notices, bid solicitations and other important public information.Now, under the false premise that eliminating that requirement can save the public ...
A few years ago I traveled with a small group of people to the interior of war torn Liberia located in northwest Africa. As a group, we conducted a building project, mobile medical clinics, visited orphanages, fed children and other well defined objectives scheduled for the ten-day period.One ...