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For the people across Pennsylvania, the past few years have been filled with economic uncertainty and soaring costs. Inflation has run rampant. Famili...

Every election generates its inevitable hyperbole, but the overheated rhetoric — fueled in part by social media — has worsened considerably in recent ...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Gov. Tom Wolf continues to push for $2,000 stimulus checks for many residents of the state. Though, the Republican-led general asse...

It’s highly unlikely that anyone turns cartwheels when they pay their property taxes, but the idea that the money is going to the school up the street...

HARRISBURG — Governor Tom Wolf was joined by state Representative David Delloso and stakeholders and community members to discuss the reintroduction o...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — University of Pittsburgh students will pay more in tuition this fall, becoming the latest in a growing number of college undergradu...

The new state budget resolves one problem that arose during the volatile 2020 election season. But because Republican lawmakers know a politically use...

Right-wing social warriors in the state Legislature have backed off their effort to hold thousands ofPennsylvaniacollege students hostage to their ide...

HARRISBURG — Lawmakers overwhelmingly passed the main Pennsylvania state budget bill Friday, more than a week after it was due — a plan fattened by fe...

A week into the state’s new fiscal year and Pennsylvania still didn’t have a state budget. Once again, lawmakers blew off the deadline, even though it...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania’s state House of Representatives and Senate returned to the Capitol on Tuesday, as leaders of the Republican-controlled...

HARRISBURG — A proposal to require Pennsylvania’s four state-related universities to promise they are not conducting research or experiments with feta...

A few days ago, on his way home from work, my husband helped push a stranger’s car into a gasoline stall. The driver had run out of gas just as she wa...

Pennsylvania is walking away from money on the table, figuratively, with the tourism industry, according to a recent study. An economic impact study d...

The Bradford Area School District heard from Business Manager Judy Bodamer pertaining to the 2022-2023 budget, as well as from a representative of Nut...

DETROIT — Nearly 60% of Americans say they worry a great deal about inflation, according to a new Gallup poll. Apparently, Joe Biden isn’t one of them...

At a state Senate budget hearing on March 2, Sen. Gene Yaw, the Lycoming County Republican who heads the chamber’s environment committee, asked how th...

In a combination of overstatement and bad timing, the Legislature’s nonpartisan Independent Fiscal Office needlessly has complicated the simple questi...

As Gov. Tom Wolf proposed a new budget Tuesday that would mitigate the government’s inequitable education funding, legislative Republicans continued t...

START FRESH: It’s 2022, and it’s time to get a fresh start. Hopefully, our post holiday hangover is past and we are ready for new things. Try cleaning...