Pennsylvania lawmakers have a remarkable talent for evading accountability.They won’t increase the state government’s 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’t it just yesterday that we were all nervous about Y2K?You remember that – 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 ...
<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’d be hard-pressed to find anyone in the region who is ...
<em>An editorial from the Wilkes-Barre Citizens’ Voice:</em>The impending session of the state House of Representatives looks like a hockey game in which a fight breaks out before the first puck is dropped.Democrats clocked Republicans in the Nov. 8 midterm ...
The scene played out at least a couple of times in all those tough-as-nails crime thrillers Hollywood pumped out in the 1930s and 1940s.An inmate leaves “the big house” after serving his time. Once he hops on a bus, a suitcase in his hand and a few bucks in his pocket, the rest of the movie ...
<strong>JEER:</strong> Today is the 50th anniversary of the Immaculate Reception, one of the greatest plays in NFL history — maybe the greatest of all — and a play that needs no explanation in this region since it’s become such a part of Pittsburgh lore. The ...
