This weekend we mark the Labor Day holiday. Its roots go back to Sept. 5, 1882, when Peter J. McGuire loosely organized a march in New York City to honor and call attention to the laborers and unions who were building this country in the Industrial Age. Some 10,000 workers took unpaid leave to ...
Pennsylvania drivers deserve better from their Turnpike Commission. While families struggle with 17 consecutive years of toll increases and rising costs of living, the commission recently approved $367,107 in raises for top executives, including an $86,000 increase for CEO Mark Compton, ...
Local pharmacies need help You may have heard a lot about the pharmacy closures that have hit our area hard. Spotlight PA did a great article a few weeks ago highlighting many of the challenges. We have had a tremendous influx of new patients. Unfortunately, we could not help many due to the ...
Kudos to Gary Stout for his recent op-ed of suggestions Democrats should employ for the future. All are reasonable except one. He urges us to 鈥渘ot waste resources attacking Donald Trump鈥檚 character.鈥� This is bad advice, because we all need to be reminded of the content of his character ...
Pennsylvanians could be forgiven for feeling a bit whipsawed when it comes to recent energy-related news here in the Keystone State. On one hand, the recently signed federal 鈥淥ne Big Beautiful Bill鈥� pulls back from recent progress that has been made in clean energy production, limiting ...
Earlier this spring, virtually all employees from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) 鈥� a federal organization focused on worker safety and health 鈥� received reduction-in-force (RIF) notices. Some NIOSH employees have had their RIF notices rescinded, including ...