These days, it’s easy to put a spin on something and pedal it as if it is the undisputed truth. Take legal skill games, for example. Fear-mongering arguments pushed by the Pennsylvania Lottery and casino industry take great efforts to ignore both the facts and the law. A recent Pennlive ...

By SEN. JUDY WARD The Pennsylvania Award for Student Success (PASS) program and Gov. Shapiro’s repeated public support for it continues to receive much-deserved media attention. The situation in our low-achieving schools is at a crisis level, and children are suffering every day because of ...

Last week I did a history of canning jars. This week I will concentrate on what went into the jars. There were several trying times. I really cannot remember which event came first, although if I looked back in my diaries I could find out. I have kept a diary for close to fifty years with ...

Rod was everyone’s idea of what an airline captain should look like. He was tall, good looking in an “aw-shucks” sort of way, with a crooked, always-ready smile. A teensy bit of gray hair was sneaking into his temples. The hero pilots in books are often described with “steely blue ...

Local governmental officials are invariably problem solvers. Political affiliation is nearly impossible to detect as locals view situations and seek solutions, be it extending internet and EMT coverage or deciding effective WCSD configurations or how best to deal with blighted properties, or ...

By SEN. LISA BOSCOLA The recently signed state budget fails to address Pennsylvania’s most pressing issue, reducing our reliance on local property taxes as the primary source for funding public education. Pennsylvania homeowners remain overtaxed and too many school districts are short- ...