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Money is not the only answer. With government, it often seems that way. No matter what the problem may be, there are any number of solutions that can ...

Massive government spending programs typically cost more than projected. At some point, one might even call it a pattern. The latest example is the il...

Four months after President Joe Biden nominated former California Labor Secretary Julie Su to serve as U.S. Labor Secretary, Su’s nomination remains s...

Permits. Licenses. Certificates. Catalogs. Deadlines. Pretty dull stuff. But the unsexy work of streamlining bureaucratic approvals, especially of con...

As Pennsylvania lawmakers and Gov. Josh Shapiro enter the final days of state budget negotiations, education funding is high on the list of issues. A ...

It’s been nearly three weeks since former President Donald Trump announced that he had been indicted in the classified documents investigation. On Jun...

Recognizing that a ZIP code should never determine the quality of a child’s education, we are excited that Pennsylvania’s Democrat Gov. Josh Shapiro o...

Advocates for reproductive rights have long warned that abortion bans would endanger women’s lives by deterring doctors from providing necessary care....

There was nothing ambiguous about Commonwealth Court Judge Renée Cohn Jubelirer’s ruling in January that the state government’s distribution of its pu...

On the one hand, events in Russia this past weekend were stunning — the leader of a mercenary group declaring against the country’s military leadershi...

It is hard to find any political observer who believes Chris Christie can topple Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, let alone former President Donald Trump, a...

Economists for theFederal Reserve Bank of New Yorkin 2019 used thePennsylvania Legislature'srefusal to raise the minimum wage as the basis of a "natur...

First of all, apologies to all of you die-hard Fenians who are expecting this article to wax poetic about the green hills of Ireland or the nobility o...

Innumerable Pennsylvania consumers have been upset with their utilities even more than usual over the past year due to widespread error-prone billing ...

HARRISBURG — It’s hard to turn on the news without seeing stories about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence. Rapid advances in AI technol...

Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, probably dodged a jail cell when he pleaded guilty this week to two tax charges. He also agreed to enter a p...

There are a lot of questions surrounding the federal indictment of former President Donald Trump, which alleges that after leaving the White House, Tr...

In the last three years, Republicans in two dozen states passed laws limiting voting in the name of preventing alleged voter fraud. At the same time, ...

At a recent House Armed Services Committee hearing, leaders from the Army, Navy, and Air Force all dutifully reported that they expected to miss their...

Citizens should know what issues their school boards, borough councils and other government agencies plan to deliberate and/or vote on at public meeti...