With just under a year to go, the races for governor are already grabbing a spotlight. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who at one time was a strong contender to be tapped as a vice presidential candidate with Kamala Harris, will be facing Republican Stacy Garrity. Unlike neighboring New York ...
Praise for process Dear Editor, Thank you to the reassessment board members. I was one of the few Warren County residents who accepted that the reassessment would raise my taxes. We moved here from Lakewood in 2018 where my property taxes were more than three times what we pay in Warren County on a comparable home value. I received my reassessment value and it looked too high. I calculated what I thought the value was based on purchase price and improvements over the past seven years. I compared it to comparable home sales in the area over the past two years and similar home ...
It’s not uncommon for audits to say public school districts are holding too much in reserve funds - essentially taking too much in taxes to pay the expenses they carry. What happened to cyber charter schools as part of the state’s 2025-26 budget agreement, then, could realistically be considered a case of what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Lawmakers agreed to a change in charter school funding formulas used to reimburse cyber charter schools, aiming to better reflect the actual costs of their operations. The reforms are designed to increase accountability for ...
I sometimes have trouble sleeping. I’m blaming lack of sleep for all my bad decisions, and often for forgetting my purse. I need every excuse I can get. Last spring, I finally decided to try the natural sleep supplement Melatonin. Whoa, that’s good! If I needed some help to Slumbertown, 20 minutes after a Melatonin gummy, I was on the path. Zonk. Occasionally I needed two. But it wasn’t until a two-fer night that I finally read the directions. “Thirty minutes before bedtime, take two supplements and allow them to slowly dissolve.” Two Melatonins? The recommended dosage? ...
Now that SNAP benefits are guaranteed to flow for the next year, it’s time for Pennsylvania to better monitor how the program operates in the commonwealth. Throughout the late summer and early fall there has been debate over Pennsylvania’s SNAP error rate. We’re one of the states that either overpays or underpays more than 10% of SNAP recipients. That’s a number worth paying attention to because states with error rates over 10% will have to pay money back to the federal government under a provision included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. According to a state Independent ...
More than 2,700 Warren County residents who appealed their new property assessments to the county Board of Assessment Appeal now have a limited window to appeal to the Court of Common Pleas if they disagree with the board’s decision. It’s a milestone in the reassessment process. The board’s decisions essentially end Warren County’s involvement in the process after three years of heated discussion, debate and protest. Now that the new assessments have been largely finalized with the exception of those that will be appealed in the Court of Common Pleas, the spotlight shifts to ...
