Tightening rules on elections has been a hot topic in recent years.It鈥檚 an idea that has gotten top-down attention. Donald Trump brought heat to it with questions about the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. It has been picked up by leaders in state governments, including state Sen. Doug ...
A couple of years ago, state Sen. Camera Bartolotta was championing a measure that would do away with noncompete agreements for individuals who work in radio or television in Pennsylvania. The Carroll Township Republican believed that career opportunities and wage growth are stifled when on-air ...
<strong>Cheers:</strong> The world had endured a tumultuous year by the time Christmas Eve rolled around in 1968. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy had been assassinated. France had been shut down due to an uprising in May. The Vietnam War raged on. The ...
Government employees need not fret how wild swings in financial markets will affect their pensions. Public employment is the last bastion of the 鈥渄efined benefit鈥� pension plan.Public pension plans 鈥� funded by workers, taxpayers, and plan investments 鈥� must pay the defined benefit.The ...
A lot of attention is being paid to what our children are reading nowadays, turning once sedate classrooms and libraries into battlefields in our country鈥檚 never-ending culture wars.Some overzealous parents and community members have gone on book-banning benders, even though restricting the ...
<strong>Cheers:</strong> Organ donation is life changing. Dunbar resident Keith Lowry knows that firsthand. Earlier this year, Lowry was the 500th person to have a heart transplant performed at Allegheny General Hospital. He returned to AGH this week to kick off ...
