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Just as President Donald Trump misused an old law in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, many of his acolytes in Pennsylvania used an outdated state law to flood county courts with bogus litigation following the Nov. 8 midterm election.Trump adviser John Eastman ...

First, let it be said that football is much safer than it once was.For an example, we need look no further than 1905. That year yielded what one writer has described as 鈥渇ootball鈥檚 death harvest.鈥 In the course of 1905, it鈥檚 believed that more than 20 college football players sustained ...

Cheers and Jeers

<strong>CHEERS:</strong> Political junkies were transfixed this week by the spectacle of Kevin McCarthy being denied the speakers鈥 chair in the U.S. House of Representatives by hardliners in the Republican caucus. It was the first time in 100 years that the ...

Freeze state gas tax, or dedicate it

Pennsylvania lawmakers have a remarkable talent for evading accountability.They won鈥檛 increase the state government鈥檚 percentage of school funding because that would require increases in state taxes. Instead, they leave it to local school boards to raise property taxes and absorb the ...

Wasn鈥檛 it just yesterday that we were all nervous about Y2K?You remember that 鈥 some folks were hoarding food and water in the midst of overheated predictions that the transition from Dec. 31, 1999, to Jan. 1, 2000, would lead to computer meltdowns, planes falling from the sky and all ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> One month ago, Pam Snyder became a former state representative following almost a decade in Harrisburg, and, before that, almost a decade as a county commissioner in Greene County. You鈥檇 be hard-pressed to find anyone in the region who is ...