We would never be so myopic as to suggest what happens at the southern border doesn’t have an effect on Pennsylvania. A 2023 report indicates at least 251,000 illegal immigrants reside in Pennsylvania with an annual burden of more than $1.6 billion on taxpayers. That equates to a cost of ...

City officials aren’t wrong to think there should be some local guidelines governing short-term rentals. We’ve all heard the horror stories of short-term rentals creating havoc for people who have owned their homes for decades when rentals go wrong with loud parties or tons of additional ...

Sometimes it seems like rural communities are caught in a vicious cycle — jobs and amenities are not available that would keep young people there, and as the population declines, the remaining jobs and amenities shrivel, which makes a revival even harder to pull off. A recent story in the ...

What can you buy with a penny? Not much, especially these days. But if you get a bunch of pennies together, you can do quite a bit. In Youngsville, 22,000 pennies collected by Youngsville Elementary School students will help the Youngsville Public Library purchase summer program ...

What good is a once-in-30-years countywide property reassessment if it quickly falls out of date? The answer, obviously, is not much. That’s why an idea discussed recently by the Warren County Council of Governments makes a lot of sense and deserves consideration as the reassessment ...

In Lower Saucon Township, Pa., residents are awaiting the results of an investigation into yet another Norfolk Southern train derailment March 2. This one involved three trains and scattered rail cars along a riverbank. At least one was partially in the Lehigh River. So far, the National ...