Projections by the state’s Independent Fiscal Office foresee the burden of school districts’ property taxes growing by 4% to 4.8% from 2025 to 2026, according to reporting by The Center Square. While we hope these forecasts are the wake-up call our state government needs to prioritize ...

School districts across the nation are banning the use of cell phones in classrooms. Should Warren County? It depends, frankly, on what teachers say. Gary Weber, district superintendent, said the Warren County School District has been all over the map in recent years when it comes to ...

It’s been 10 years since Pennsylvania’s voter identification system was ruled unconstitutional by Judge Bernard McGinley. A decade later, and Republicans and Democrats are still fighting over voter ID. State Rep. Kathy Rapp, R-Warren, recently complained that Democrats aren’t allowing ...

Today, people of the United States, as they celebrate the 248th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, ought to be neck-deep in patriotic pride for having the opportunity to live in this nation of freedom and abundance, despite its imperfections. Of course, as everyone who pays ...

It’s not necessarily a big deal that the Warren County Commissioners are dealing with a temporary gap between tax collections and bills that are coming due. That can happen to governments at all levels. Budgets can be shifted, savings used or short-term borrowing used to close those gaps. ...

After the controversy created last year when the topic of closing school buildings in Warren County - and the ensuing turnover on the Warren County School District Board of Education - it would be understandable if some school board members didn’t want to touch the idea of school closures ...