institutions

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education’s board of governors agreed to delay setting next year’s tuition rate until Jul...

The idea of a dedicated fund to support the state police is a perfect illustration of Pennsylvania’s ongoing governmental challenges. Gov. Josh Shapir...

Natural gas explosions, pipeline ruptures and the disastrous Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, have underscored staffing prob...

BOSTON (TNS) — Ron DeSantis can’t even beat Mickey Mouse. How is he possibly going to beat Donald Trump? In the battle between Disney and DeSantis in ...

The Biden administration wants homebuyers who have good credit to cover the risks of lending to homebuyers who don’t. Congressional Republicans should...

During the two months that the “full-time” state House managed not to meet early this year, legislatures in several other states wrapped up their busi...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The bizarre torrent of intelligence documents posted on a gamers’ chat server, allegedly by a 21-year-old National Guard technician...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing opioid addiction epidemic are public health crises that have cast light on a third — inadequate access to mental...

HARRISBURG — The group tasked by Gov. Josh Shapiro with developing a state-level plan to fight climate change met for the first time this week, a step...

The Pennsylvania Legislature is no stranger to dissension. The state isn’t Democratic or Republican, after all. It isn’t even a muddled, muted purple....

HARRISBURG — On behalf of Gov. Josh Shapiro, Department of Community and Economic Development Acting Secretary Rick Siger is recognizing municipalitie...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has been without a full-time leader since the Jan. 6 departure of executive director Set...

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...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority (Authority) Executive Director Brandon Carson announced today the approval of grant guidelin...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Republicans have expelled two Democratic lawmakers from the state Legislature for their role in a protest calling fo...

Tightening rules on elections has been a hot topic in recent years. It’s an idea that has gotten top-down attention. Donald Trump brought heat to it w...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Schools and colleges across the U.S. would be forbidden from enacting outright bans on transgender athletes under a proposal release...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — ”This seems to be more about the person than about the crime.” — Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La. The senator’s raising the right question...

Using billions of dollars in highway money to fund state police always was bad policy, but it’s even worse now that doing so could jeopardize Pennsylv...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — A couple of weeks ago, as I moderated a discussion at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House on the heated battle to ...