Just a couple of years ago, part of Greene County faced a water crisis. The East Dunkard Water Authority, the previous water provider for over 1,600 residents in several communities south of Pittsburgh, had been out of compliance with drinking water regulations for years. Families turned on ...
Like many of you, I was tired of finding three, four, even five political mailers a day stuffed in my mailbox. Most Republican voters in the 46th Senatorial District could probably wallpaper their homes with them. When voters would rightfully express their dismay, I told them: check the ...
Two hundred fifty years ago this summer, delegates met in Philadelphia and signed their names to a document that risked everything. The Declaration of Independence was a bet that ordinary people, given truthful information about those in power, could govern themselves. That promise is harder ...
It鈥檚 no secret that Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) schools, now with 10 universities with 14 campuses, have undergone a drastic enrollment decline since their peak period in 2015 and 2016. But even with school consolidations and a minor student-count reversal in ...
Indeed, 鈥渄ead on arrival鈥� would be the most apropos way to characterize the chances of Gov. Josh Shapiro鈥檚 proposed fiscal 2026-27 Pennsylvania budget being adopted by the General Assembly. For it is far more remarkable for the economic fallacies it promulgates than sound fiscal ...
Years ago, I was asked a question that stayed with me: What good came from the Marianna coal mining disaster in 1908 that killed 154 miners? At first, I couldn鈥檛 imagine anything meaningful could follow such horror. More than a hundred children became orphans, dozens of women lost their ...
