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HARRISBURG — Mass transit in Pennsylvania nears a financial crossroads in the coming year, and either way, residents will pay the price. After federal...

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...

Medicare’s hospitalization trust fund is on the fast track to insolvency. That has both seniors and future retirees worried. Because our leaders in Wa...

HARRISBURG — More oversight for the gambling industry could be coming to Pennsylvania, this time focused on skill games. A proposed regulation would c...

When school districts send tax bills, they should include a notice of how much they pay to the scandal-plaguedPublic School Employees Retirement Syste...

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...

Communities across Pennsylvania struggle with an emergency of their own as they try to provide adequate emergency services amid rising demands, declin...

NO FOOLING, tax day is coming. Just two weeks remain until the deadline for taxpayers to submit their individual returns. The official date this year ...

The state government uses tax credits as currency to entice private sector development. So, not surprisingly, some private-sector entities also use th...

HARRISBURG — The latest U.S. Census data shows the counties encompassing Philadelphia and Pittsburgh were among the top 10 nationwide that shrank in p...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania law makes a variety of tax credits available to businesses as a strategy to grow the economy. Not every tax credit, however,...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The Pennsylvania State Police are budgeting for a significant hiring push in the coming budget year, but a broad decline in applica...

The Pennsylvania Turnpike was created under a simple concept: Drivers would pay tolls and the revenue would be used to pay for operations, constructio...

Gov. Josh Shapiro’s first state budget proposal perpetuates unsustainable spending and fails to address the most promising ideas he put forward during...

Farmers know a thing or two about stewardship. If they don’t take care of their land, eventually it will cost them their livelihoods. Unlike farmers, ...

Older Americans tend to vote, and they also tend to be wary of politicians who propose entitlement reform. That combination typically leads to inertia...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Gov. Josh Shapiro’s effort to win bipartisan appeal in his first budget by emphasizing workforce training and supports to help busi...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s legislative branch made history when it closed the books on the 2021-22 fiscal year by sitting on its largest-ever surplus...

President Joe Biden likes to pass himself off as a deficit slayer, which is a bit like Monty Python’s Mr. Creosote claiming to be an avid dieter. Bide...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., introduced two bills to make the tax code fairer for workers by easing their tax burden and cracking down on ...