Editorials

Public school governance in Pennsylvania often is a train wreck because even though things aren’t what they used to be, state law covering school boar...

About 110 years ago, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote that “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants,” which certainly is true of go...

By design, including structure and funding, police are arms of the government. As such they are supposed to be subject to civilian control, but rarely...

It was Aug. 24, 2021, that, in the wake of Andrew Cuomo’s meltdown, Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul became Gov. Hochul, to shape her own record and legacy in Ne...

Both houses of the state Legislature have passed a budget and Gov. Josh Shapiro has signed it, but this being Pennsylvania, that doesn’t mean that the...

The torrential rain that ripped through the Philadelphia region Sunday shows yet again how extreme weather is becoming all too routine. King of Prussi...

A “slap on the wrist,” is what House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer says of Hunter Biden’s plea deal over two misdemeanor counts of failing to ...

With the June 30 end of the fiscal year looming, legislators must craft the new state budget’s education piece in light of a Commonwealth Court decisi...

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People who buy guns for people who cannot obtain them legally are known as “straw purchasers,” a benign label for a deadly problem. It’s particularly ...

Count us as enthusiastic celebrants of World Press Freedom Day, marked this week. Across the world, too many journalists are punished, imprisoned and ...

If the Supreme Court had a code of conduct and suddenly decided to scrap it as big questions swirled about potential conflicts, it would be a scandal ...

With this year’s federal income tax deadline looming, the Internal Revenue Service has detailed its modernization plan that Congress has enabled with ...

The list of Republican hopefuls for the 2024 presidential nomination keeps growing, but so does their timid silence whenever the topic of Donald Trump...

A bombshell report in ProPublica reveals that almost every year for two decades plus, a billionaire Republican donor has taken U.S. Supreme Court Just...

It was news everywhere, from CNN to “Saturday Night Live.” The principal of a Tallahassee charter school was fired after a photograph of an iconic mas...

Voila: Tuesday night, posted on the website of ABC News, there was the full 32-page transcript from Donald Trump’s arraignment, allowing the world to ...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Sheep and goat producers can learn tips for setting up barns and facilities for managing sheep and goats at an upcoming Penn State E...

In a rare bit of good news out of the U.S. Supreme Court, there are signs that three of the court’s six conservatives are poised to join its three lib...

Pennsylvania has an urgent need to convince more high school students to return to classrooms as teachers. According to the U.S. Department of Educati...