Last year Pennsylvania taxpayers again invested historic levels of funding in public education and for the third consecutive year, the state budget included more than a billion dollars in new funding for K-12 schools. As part of the upcoming state budget for fiscal year 2025-26, we will ...
A number of opinions have been aired recently regarding the recent firing of federal government employees, spearheaded by Elon Musk and Donald Trump. As is often said, you can have your own opinions but not your own facts. Facts inoculate the rational mind from charlatans by teaching us to sort ...
As a mother who raised two children here in the Mon Valley, I care deeply about fresh air, clean drinking water and the well-being of our communities where we live, work and raise our families. Recently, Greene County marked an important yet quiet milestone that may not have made headlines ...
As egg prices are still a lead story in this country, the nursery rhyme about Humpty Dumpty jumped into my mind. But my version is about the U.S. health care system. According to my observations, the 鈥渟ystem鈥� is precariously sitting on that same potentially crumbling wall where Humpty ...
After struggling to reach the pre-pandemic passenger counts of 2019 in 2024, the Allegheny County Airport Authority agreed to a $600,000 subsidy for low-cost carrier Frontier Airlines to fly out of Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT). Separately, the state announced a $2 million grant to the ...
Have you ever looked at the beach and wondered how many grains of sand there are? That can be mind-boggling to think about. Scientists estimate that, depending on the grain size and density, a single cubic yard of sand might have billions of grains. That鈥檚 a lot of sand 鈥� and that鈥檚 ...
