public policy

HARRISBURG — The tax increase on cell phones to support Pennsylvania’s 911 system is on track to hit its expected revenues. The tax, passed in 2023 to...

Some disabled Americans on Social Security aren’t out of work solely because of their medical condition. Social Security payments themselves may “also...

HARRISBURG — After a budget deal passed in the Capitol, a Pennsylvania state agency warns that the surplus will be depleted next year. The $47.6 billi...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — If you don’t think the interest on the federal debt is a problem, try this quick exercise. Grab your pay stub for June and see how ...

The Congressional Budget Office projects that the federal government will have a budget deficit of $1.9 trillion this year, $400 billion more than was...

Harrisburg – The Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority (PEDA) launched a new financing program designed to help local governments identify and dev...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania lawmakers began grinding through a series of votes Thursday to finalize a budget deal that took nearly two weeks i...

DEAR RUSTY: I hope you can give me some information about a question that has come up in my family. My husband is retired and has reached full retirem...

The IRS has appointed a new “taxpayer experience officer,” whose salary is paid by — who else? — taxpayers themselves. The agency hasn’t publicly anno...

The United Way of the Bradford Area is currently accepting applications for the third quarter of Quarterly Impact funding for 2024. Deadline to apply ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Reps Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., and David Trone, D-Md., have introduced the Health Care Worker and First Responder Fairness Act, w...

SHINGLEHOUSE — All Potter and McKean county youth ages 5 to 12 are invited to attend 4-H Discovery Camp on July 9 to 11 at the Potter County Fairgroun...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — When former President Donald Trump told Senate Republicans last week that he was thinking about replacing the income tax with an “...

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(TNS) — As tensions with China continue to rise, especially over trade and sensitive technological theft, it is critical that one facet of our nationa...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spent nearly $1.8 billion more than was allocated in its annual budgets between 2014 and 2023, according to a...

The Biden budget deficit this fiscal year probably will exceed $1.6 trillion. This from a president who has repeatedly tried to pass himself off as a ...

A bid by Pennsylvania Senate Republicans — with the support of several of their Democratic colleagues — to cut the state’s earned income and electrici...

The USDA Forest Service announced its 2023 annual payments to be distributed nationally to counties containing federal land through the 1908 Act and S...

RIDGWAY — North Central Pennsylvania Regional Planning and Development Commission APEX Accelerator will co-sponsor a webinar on PA COSTARS, the state’...