Many years ago, the generosity of a very special person made a profound impact on my life. Often, we neglect to appreciate the importance of people or how each has influenced who and what we will become. It is only when we recount the days of our childhood do we fully understand the ...
News out of Harrisburg this week concerned word that the state budget deficit is quickly approaching half a billion dollars.To help make up for the lack of revenue, Gov. Tom Corbett鈥檚 office announced a pay freeze had been extended for thousands of nonunion management employees in the ...
An ambulance鈥檚 siren cut through the din of rush-hour traffic and motorists began clearing a lane on busy K Street in Washington, D.C. The emergency vehicle eased into an intersection - only to be stalled by a young guy ambling through the crosswalk, oblivious to the wailing, the flashing ...
Any doubts that Republican legislators were truly interested in open government and concerned only about the welfare of their constituents were erased with the passage of their congressional redistricting plan.First and foremost, the plan, which awaits the expected signature of Republican Gov. ...
鈥淚t鈥檚 been going on like this for over an hour.鈥漈hat鈥檚 what the woman my wife works with was told after she paid for the two cars behind her in the drive-thru line one morning early this week. She decided to do so after she had pulled up to the window only to discover that the car in ...
Humans, as a rule, don鈥檛 always behave logically.(After all, how else do we explain the existence of 鈥淔ear Factor鈥� and the popularity of basketball?)Personally, I have run into no greater cognitive disconnect in logic and behavior than the grumbling over the new rules the Federal ...
