News, PA State News
Apr 18, 2023
HARRISBURG — Mass transit in Pennsylvania nears a financial crossroads in the coming year, and either way, residents will pay the price. After federal...
News, PA State News
Apr 14, 2023
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...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 13, 2023
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...
News, PA State News
Apr 12, 2023
HARRISBURG — More oversight for the gambling industry could be coming to Pennsylvania, this time focused on skill games. A proposed regulation would c...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 11, 2023
When school districts send tax bills, they should include a notice of how much they pay to the scandal-plaguedPublic School Employees Retirement Syste...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 06, 2023
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...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 03, 2023
Communities across Pennsylvania struggle with an emergency of their own as they try to provide adequate emergency services amid rising demands, declin...
News, Round the Square
Apr 03, 2023
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 ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 02, 2023
The state government uses tax credits as currency to entice private sector development. So, not surprisingly, some private-sector entities also use th...
News, PA State News
Mar 31, 2023
HARRISBURG — The latest U.S. Census data shows the counties encompassing Philadelphia and Pittsburgh were among the top 10 nationwide that shrank in p...
Business, News, PA State News
Mar 30, 2023
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania law makes a variety of tax credits available to businesses as a strategy to grow the economy. Not every tax credit, however,...
News, PA State News
Mar 28, 2023
HARRISBURG (TNS) — The Pennsylvania State Police are budgeting for a significant hiring push in the coming budget year, but a broad decline in applica...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 28, 2023
The Pennsylvania Turnpike was created under a simple concept: Drivers would pay tolls and the revenue would be used to pay for operations, constructio...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 21, 2023
Gov. Josh Shapiro’s first state budget proposal perpetuates unsustainable spending and fails to address the most promising ideas he put forward during...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 19, 2023
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, ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 16, 2023
Older Americans tend to vote, and they also tend to be wary of politicians who propose entitlement reform. That combination typically leads to inertia...
News, PA State News
Mar 14, 2023
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Gov. Josh Shapiro’s effort to win bipartisan appeal in his first budget by emphasizing workforce training and supports to help busi...
News, PA State News
Mar 10, 2023
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...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 10, 2023
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...
Nation, News, PA State News
Mar 10, 2023
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 ...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
August 18, 2025
As speculation around his presidential ambitions swirls, make no mistake: Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is already campaigning. And his national shad...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
August 18, 2025
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — A friend who develops affordable housing in and around Pittsburgh once told me about a young woman who was interested in buying a s...
Local News
August 18, 2025
SMETHPORT — Regular Baptist Church of Smethport announced the start of its youth programs for the 2025-26 school year. Kids’ Clubs for children in kin...
Business, Local News
August 18, 2025
Two local oil purchasers have decreased the price they will pay for Penn grade crude oil. Effective Friday, American Refining Group and Ergon Oil Purc...
Lifestyles
August 17, 2025
DEAR ABBY: I am a 67-year-old man who has two sisters. Recently, I was at my younger sister "Mitzi's" house, installing some blinds. While there, I re...
Local News, Nation & World, PA State News
States feel pressure to act
August 16, 2025
HARRISBURG (AP) — Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feedin...
