legislation

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...

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...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — More than two years since it was signed into law, Pennsylvania will take its first step to implement the Nurse License Compact early...

HARRISBURG — A group of state House lawmakers representing primarily rural areas of the Commonwealth has introduced a package of six bills aimed at ho...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — State Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward has called an unusual August voting session for next week to deal with unfinished piece...

More than 165,000 students soon will head to campus at Penn State, Temple, and Lincoln universities and the University of Pittsburgh, long before the ...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that race-conscious college admission programs are unconstitutional, two things were imm...

ALBANY – New York Assemblyman Joseph M. Gilgio and Sen. George Borrello have introduced legislation to allow judges and town and village justices to c...

HARRISBURG — Attorney General Michelle Henry and the Federal Trade Commission took action to resolve antitrust concerns surrounding a $5.2 billion cas...

Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward, R-Westmoreland, made the right call in bringing members of the upper chamber back to Harrisburg so...

Edward J. Kochanski vividly remembers the day more than 40 years ago when he drove two local friends, both veterans, both triple-amputees, to New York...

It was the sort of conduct one usually associates with totalitarian governments: Law enforcement officers swarm a newspaper office and confiscate comp...

There’s a lot of talk among House Republicans about impeaching President Joe Biden. But GOP members disagree on whether there is enough evidence to go...

The Sino-U.S. “cold tech war” is reaching new heights — or rather depths — as tensions are building under the sea. First it was semiconductors. Now it...

STATE COLLEGE — As the deadline looms for reauthorizing the sprawling national Farm Bill that Congress updates about every five years, Congressman Gle...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — A disagreement within Democratic ranks on a key state budget item was revealed Thursday when a House member called it “unfortunate”...

In February 2022, in the middle of the legislative redistricting process, I stood at a press conference to unveil an amendment to what is now the map ...

Now is the time to get a divorce in Pennsylvania. Because of a failure of the state Legislature to pass legislation, a surcharge on court filings has ...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Gov. Josh Shapiro’s signing of a budget bill last week set the stage for reaching a major bipartisan goal in Harrisburg — ending th...

Mary Bert enjoyed hiking and spending time in the outdoors. Vacations with her husband Bill often included hitting a trail and wildlife watching, from...