governance

COSTARS to hold webinar
Business, Local News, News
Jun 05, 2024
RIDGWAY — North Central Pennsylvania Regional Planning and Development Commission APEX Accelerator will co-sponsor a webinar on PA COSTARS, the state’...
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Shapiro leads generation into power
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 17, 2023
Josh Shapiro, at 49, is Pennsylvania’s first post-baby-boom governor. Less certain is whether that will translate into better state governance. Pennsy...
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Reserve impeachment for misconduct
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 05, 2022
State legislative Republicans remain committed to a dangerous political stunt that not only threatens to disenfranchise Philadelphians but jeopardizes...
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Mergers may be wave of future
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 18, 2022
The Nov. 8 election mostly was about big statewide elections and control of Congress. But it also featured a local election that could help improve lo...
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Transparency for state court
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 05, 2022
Pennsylvania has the oldest supreme court in the United States and all of North America, at 300 years. Founded in 1722, it predates the Supreme Court ...
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Let independents into primaries
Opinion, Сolumns
May 02, 2022
As itinerant millionaires pour money into denigrating one another to impress a small fraction of the state’s population, while ruining television for ...
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Thornburgh knew how to govern
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 08, 2021
There was a time, decades ago, when competence and good governance were synonymous with good politics. Republican Former Gov. Richard Thornburgh, who ...
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‘We, the People…’
Opinion, Сolumns
GEORGE P. EVANS 
Nov 11, 2020
“We the People. …” That phrase has endured for 244 years as the pillar of the U.S. Constitution, which has stood as America’s triumphant experiment in...
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