Tidioute residents are well aware of water troubles. Since March 18, the borough has been under a boil-water order. Making matters worse, the Southwest Warren County Municipal Authority is not optimistic about when users can start drinking from the fountains again. In its latest notice, they ...
The state House of Representatives’ passage of a one-house budget means fiscal sanity now rests in the hands of the state Senate. House members passed a budget that is nearly identical to Gov. Josh Shapiro’s $53.3 billion budget proposal in a largely party line vote. Five Republicans voted with Democrats. House passage of a budget doesn’t mean much in the grand scheme of things. It should come as no shock to anyone that Democrats would support their governor’s budget. Let’s give House Democrats a little bit of credit for not approving even more spending than Shapiro proposed ...
For more than half a century, the United States has been celebrating Earth Day. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, it was in the spring of 1970, Sen. Gaylord Nelson created Earth Day as a way to force legal and regulatory mechanisms to protect our natural world. Today, our environment is consistently at the center of attention when it comes to the use of water, recycling and energy. As part of Earth Day, which is celebrated Wednesday, the EPA recommends ways residents can lower their carbon footprint. Those include: bike or walk; carpool or take public transportation; ...
About 10 weeks ago, Gov. Josh Shapiro unveiled his 2026-27 state budget proposal. The budget is due June 30 — about 11 weeks away. As close to the mid-point as we are, we hope our lawmakers are making substantive progress on deciding what the state budget should look like. We can reiterate what we said about 10 weeks ago — Shapiro’s proposal spends too much money. Our state is facing real, long-term challenges to how we fund public education. Courts have determined the disparities between school districts and property values are great enough that Pennsylvania is not truly ...
We’re not surprised by estimates showing Warren County’s population has fallen. People leaving, or those who remain not having enough children to keep population levels high, is the new normal not just for Warren County or other rural Pennsylvania counties but rural counties in New York state as well. What’s surprising is the pace of population decline. Warren County’s population has decreased an estimated 4% from 2020 to 2025, placing it among the counties with the steepest declines in the state. The figures reflect a broader regional pattern, with nearby rural counties such ...
Whether you loved him or hated him, you cannot deny the influence Viktor Orban has had on the world during his time in politics — nor the iron grip he had on his own country’s electoral machine. And yet, on Sunday, the people of Hungary decided that, after 16 years in office, enough was enough. Despite time as — at first — a popular incumbent followed by time as — at second — an authoritarian who bent the system to give himself every edge to stay in power…in the end, none of it mattered. The election in Hungary shows that the will of the people remains ...
