Сolumns

Measles outbreak was entirely avoidable
Opinion, Сolumns
LISA JARVIS Bloomberg Opinion/TNS 
Feb 28, 2025
A measles outbreak inWest TexasandNew Mexicohas killed a child and sickened more than 130 people, and public health experts fear it’s only the beginni...
Read More...
And you thought YOUR job was important
Opinion, Сolumns
J. PEDER ZANE RealClearPolitics 
Feb 28, 2025
I confess: I’ve always had back-handed respect for public sector workers. It seemed to me they had figured out how to earn decent money with great ben...
Read More...
Is geothermal the next Pa. boom?
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 28, 2025
Pennsylvania's rich oil history and the explosion of shale gas drilling over the last 15 years have brought more than fossil fuels to the surface: The...
Read More...
Lack of training at FEMA
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 27, 2025
Victims of natural disasters deserve the best help possible, so it’s important for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to monitor the companies it...
Read More...
What Jeff Bezos really wants
Opinion, Сolumns
DAVID MILLS Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
Feb 27, 2025
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — I was surprised to hear the three men I was talking to praise the Danish welfare state. A friend had invited me to the opening rece...
Read More...
Plastic in your brain? Don’t panic — yet
Opinion, Сolumns
F.D. FLAM Bloomberg Opinion 
Feb 26, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — When aCBS Newsmedical correspondent claimed recently that we’re accumulating a plastic spoon’s worth of plastic in our brains, her co...
Read More...
Reform Pa. cyber charter funding
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 26, 2025
A recent report from Auditor General Tim DeFoor, a Republican, has found that Pennsylvania's cyber charter schools, deploying an archaic tuition model...
Read More...
Other Voices: Enough is enough
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 25, 2025
Haven't we seen enough of our government agencies to know that Elon Musk and, yes, Donald Trump do not have our best interests in mind? Musk has just ...
Read More...
White House records should be open
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 25, 2025
Say what you will about the whirlwind first month of Donald Trump’s second term, but even his vocal critics couldn’t accuse him of avoiding the media ...
Read More...
Billions spent on immigration aid
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 25, 2025
The Office of Refugee Resettlement spent $4.2 billion on grants in fiscal year 2024, bringing the agency’s five-year total to $22.6 billion since 2020...
Read More...
Perceiving Trump’s endgame
Opinion, Сolumns
G. DIRK MATEER and CHARITY-JOY ACCHIARDO RealClearPolitics 
Feb 25, 2025
What lies ahead now that Americans have just witnessed one of the most dramatic trade gambits seen at the beginning of a presidential term? By most ac...
Read More...
Trump risks making same economic mistakes as Biden
Opinion, Сolumns
ALLISON SCHRAGER Bloomberg Opinion 
Feb 24, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — There is one surefire way to know when someone is trying to pull one over on you: If they’re promising something for nothing — whethe...
Read More...
Local & Social