Recently Kobe Bryant, a notable athlete, and his daughter Gianna tragically passed away in a helicopter crash.On Facebook, a friend posted that they were chagrined that a national morning news program highlighted Bryant鈥檚 life as 鈥渢ouching the world鈥.I replied that this person didn鈥檛 ...
As surely as Pennsylvania General Assembly legislative sessions come and go, so does the issue of property tax reform.Property tax reform jumped out of its state capital slumber again on Jan. 7 as Senate President Pro Tempore Joseph Scarnati, R-Jefferson, was speaking with reporters.Scarnati, ...
More than once, readers have written in, or people have stopped me, to complain about their fellow Americans鈥 ignorance of the basic functions of government.Incandescent with anger, they鈥檒l complain that, while their neighbors don鈥檛 know the name of their local member of Congress, they ...