spending

Will Rogers famously said: “I belong to no organized political party. I’m a Democrat.” He would have to dig deeper to find a gibe suitable for today’s...

On Thursday, Pennsylvania’s U.S. senators reacted to the federal spending bill for Fiscal Year 2023, with U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., in favor, and ou...

This holiday season, working families across America are struggling through the worst bout of inflation in decades. A typical household has lost more ...

Every dog has his day, and apparently so does every miserably inadequate president. Joe Biden, who has been out-of-touch, tone-deaf and disturbingly i...

There’s a reason people repeat the adage that “half a loaf is better than none,” coined in 1546 in John Heywood’s collection of English proverbs. It i...

Congress has never cared much about truth-in-labeling, but even by its standards, “The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022” is laughably absurd. The deal ...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The 6.3 million visitors to the 26 National Park Service sites in Pennsylvania last year spent an estimated $298 million in the sta...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A dispute about state funding for the University of Pittsburgh over its use of fetal tissue from elective abortions in research...

Inflation is likely to be the most powerful issue working for Republicans in this year’s congressional elections. Public concern over it has been risi...

NEW YORK — A judge has rejected an effort by New York’s attorney general to put the National Rifle Association out of business, but will allow her law...

Prices have been increasing at the fastest rate in decades, but we haven’t been having a debate about inflation. We’ve been having five. We might do a...

If you’re worried about the direction of the nation, the state of the economy or the sharp rise of price inflation, you’re not alone. A recent Associa...

“Many of the great disasters of our time have been committed by experts,” the economist Thomas Sowell once said. Looking at the way prices are rapidly...

As they prepare to spend $1.2 trillion on a bipartisan infrastructure deal, along with a vastly larger sum on a party-line social-policy bill, Democra...

As the U.S. House rushed Tuesday on legislation to fund the government, suspend the federal debt limit and provide disaster and refugee aid, U.S. Glen...

Most of us agree that tax law should be fair and equitable and that government spending should stay within fiscal means. But when the spending wish li...

Transparency and accountability come in small steps where the state Legislature is concerned. The recent announcement that the state Senate soon will ...

Pennsylvania spends about $1.1 billion annually on its parks and recreation areas, but that is just $83 per resident, the 10th lowest rate of spending...

A trillion dollars used to be a lot of money, even in Washington. Now, a trillion-dollar spending bill is a trifle barely worth arguing over and the s...

So far, the bipartisan infrastructure deal is going through the normal life cycle of such proposals — alive, dead, revived, uncertain. For Republicans...