School boards in 466 out of Pennsylvania鈥檚 500 school districts have passed board resolutions calling for commonsense reforms to the state鈥檚 26-year-old charter school law, such as those included in House Bill 1422.That鈥檚 several thousand locally elected, volunteer school directors 鈥� ...
As a proud native of the McKeesport area, I have witnessed the evolution of the Mon Valley economy firsthand. Over the years, we have seen the arrival of new technologies and industries, and some companies have come and gone. But through booms and busts, one thing has remained constant: When ...
The Supreme Court on Oct. 2 spurned an opportunity to correct the second-worst mistake in its 233-year history. If it had agreed to hear Ursula Newell-Davis鈥檚 case, and had then decided it correctly, the court would have scrubbed a 150-year-old stain from its reputation.And it would have ...
In normal times domestic political fights over foreign policy break down more or less along a conventional left-right divide. These are not normal times. The right is largely united around the need to support Israel in its war with Hamas, but increasingly divided about backing Ukraine in its ...
The war that has erupted in the Middle East is one more example of man鈥檚 inhumanity to man. According to Bloomberg News, 鈥淭his conflict has exposed both new and old geopolitical fault lines, and not just in the Middle East.鈥漁ne of my friends, Wayne, wrote a passionate interpretation of ...
We have a crisis at the border that requires a functional U.S. Congress, and we don鈥檛 have one. President Joe Biden can only do what he can, and only of late has he sounded resolute.The 鈥淩epublican-controlled鈥� House of Representatives has no one in control. It is leaderless, and the ...