Election Day is now upon us and there are a variety of races for statewide appellate courts, county row offices, municipal governments and school boards. The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. today, and all mail-in ballots must be returned by voters to their county鈥檚 elections office ...
No matter when and/or how Pennsylvania鈥檚 budget impasse ends, members of the General Assembly need to exercise an examination of conscience into why they allowed the current fiscal embarrassment to persist for so long 鈥� now having passed the three-month mark for a basic budget-preparation ...
Four municipalities recently voted on forming a regional police department, but only Mt. Pleasant Township and McDonald are currently moving ahead with the idea. Mt. Pleasant鈥檚 board of supervisors approved a charter for the Northern Washington County Regional Police Department at their Oct. ...
The lack of a state budget and the shutdown of the federal government continue to have wide-ranging local effects. Some agencies have had to alter services of lay off staff. Others have stepped up to try to fill the void and aid those in need. About 2 million Pennsylvanians are among the ...
By Richard Robbins Not often does a magazine edition come along that begs both reading and keeping. In the dusty archives of my home work room are several such numbers: A Life and a Look, both devoted to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy; and, most conspicuously, the 40th ...
This is a prime time for business development in the area. That was a prevailing theme at Friday鈥檚 Mid-Mon Valley Economic Symposium. Rich Fitzgerald, executive director of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission and former county executive for Allegheny County, served as the keynote ...
