public policy

The Inflation Reduction Act could be three times as expensive as originally believed, while falling short of its goals for cutting greenhouse gas emis...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Frustration with orphan well-plugging efforts in Pennsylvania came out during a Department of Environmental Protection budget heari...

NEW YORK (TNS) — There is one surefire way to know when someone is trying to pull one over on you: If they’re promising something for nothing — whethe...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania's budget hearings began on Tuesday in the state Capitol as legislators in the General Assembly start to review Gov. Josh Sha...

For years, Pennsylvania’s energy industry has been stalled by the uncertainty created by then-Gov. Tom Wolf’s attempts to impose a tax on electricity....

The federal deficit will be $21.1 trillion in the 10-year period from 2025 to 2034, according to projections in the Congressional Budget Office’s bian...

DEAR RUSTY: I have reached my full retirement age (66 plus 8 months) and plan to apply for Social Security this month, but I’ve seen articles that say...

HARRISBURG —Gov. Josh Shapiro recently unveiled his asks for the coming state budget, and like many of his predecessors, some of his latest proposals ...

January’s potent one-two punch of bone-chilling temperatures and snow reminds us how important it is that Pennsylvanians have access to dependable uti...

DEAR RUSTY: Why were the Social Security funds moved from the Social Security account to the General Fund with the government? Is it not then called a...

HARRISBURG – Gov. Josh Shapiro was successful last year increasing spending by billions of dollars, and he’s looking to spend even more this year. Eve...

Unsustainable. Unaffordable. Alarming. Rash. Those were some of the descriptions of Gov. Josh Shapiro's proposed $51.47 billion state budget outlined ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro seems concerned about Pennsylvanians’ energy bills — and rightfully so. The average Pennsylvania electricity bill has increased by m...

Joe Biden entered the Oval Office four years ago vowing to make life miserable for America’s traditional energy producers. Four years later, Donald Tr...

HARRISBURG — New polling from the Commonwealth Foundation, a think tank that promotes fiscal conservancy, shows bipartisan support for policies they s...

HARRISBURG – As skyrocketing utility prices loom on the horizon, four more state leaders stand behind Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s complaint about...

The looming possibility of federal cuts to Medicaid would hit rural areas in the region particularly hard, according to a study by the Georgetown Univ...

Has there been a real-world test of the Trump/Musk taxation plans? Yes, and it failed. Former Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback ran for office in 2010 on the ...

The new year is always a great opportunity to shed vices like smoking and binge eating. For state and local lawmakers, their guilty pleasure tends to ...

Biden surrogates insist that the massive spending bills which triggered the inflation that helped bring downDemocratsin November will pay large divide...