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America has a housing problem

Earlier this week, the business magazine Fortune reported on a young Philadelphia-area couple that has been looking for a house in southern New Jersey for the last two years, and have had absolutely no luck.They have come up empty-handed even with a budget of $600,000, outdone in one furious ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> Most of us work for both love and money – we hope to be stimulated and engaged by the work we do and earn enough to pay the bills, purchase a few small luxuries along the way and retire with some security. Dr. Charles Machesky, the ...

As always, public education funding will be a centerpiece of the impending state budget battle. And, as always, many legislators will lament the negative impact of rising school property taxes, and then decline to do anything about it.One element of school financing they should and easily could ...

Even though anyone at any age can suffer a stroke, it was still a surprise last year when John Fetterman had one in the midst of his successful campaign to occupy one of Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate seats. He seemed healthy enough, at least on the surface, and he was only 52 at the time.It was ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> With a growing demand for workers in the skilled trades, the Fayette County Career and Technology Institute is to commended for its continued forward thinking. The FCCTI just wrapped up another summer career-exploration camp geared toward ...

Obeying the law is the lowest common denominator of basic citizenship. Yet many politicians and government officeholders often portray legality as the full scope of their public duty.It’s disappointing that Gov. Josh Shapiro has invoked the minimal requirements of the state’s Open Records ...