It took the threat of federal penalties to push Gov. Josh Shapiro into taking seriously the issue of SNAP errors in Pennsylvania. In our opinion the state has a bigger issue with Medicaid fraud – and it shouldn’t take the threat of federal action to get the state to take the fraud ...
I’m first going to address the two letters printed by the editor on Jan. 9. Were either of the writers there when those two people were shot and did you see any of the videos that were taken? Where were you when Barack Obama deported more illegal immigrants than any other president? He also made a statement that they weren’t going to come here and get a free ride on the taxpayers’ backs. What about Joe Biden, when he was a senator, stating that the illegal immigrants aren’t wanted here and they have to go? We also have a Constitution and laws in this country, at least I think ...
Tufts University PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk had her student visa revoked and was snatched off the streets of Somerville by immigration agents last March because of speech. If there were any lingering questions about whether Öztürk committed any wrongdoing, they were put to rest by documents unsealed last week in US District Court in Boston. Her sole offense, the documents reveal, was to commit free speech — in a country with a constitutional right to free speech enshrined in the First Amendment. It’s the latest travesty by a Trump administration that’s shown blatant ...
What is the reason so many Jews are blue these days? Jews, particularly in America and Europe, see hate from all sides. It was convenient when the bigots seemed to be on the right wing of the American spectrum. Most Jews simply aligned themselves with the left and thought they were safe. Many people forget that when the Jews were being gassed in Auschwitz during World War II, the Republican Party platform in 1944 called for the establishment of a Jewish national homeland. Jews in Palestine fought alongside the British to eliminate fascism in the Middle East. Enter leftwing ...
Pennsylvania has been a trailblazer in educational opportunity. Long before school choice became a national movement, the good people of our great commonwealth helped prove that empowering families — not bureaucracies — could change lives. In 2001, Pennsylvania became one of the first states in the nation to adopt a tax-credit scholarship program: the Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC). Then, in 2012, Pennsylvania added another program: the Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC). EITC and OSTC opened doors for hundreds of thousands of students in need of options beyond ...
Gov. Josh Shapiro’s 2026-27 budget would spend about $53.2 billion. The proposed 2026-27 budget, like his initial proposal for the 2025-26 budget, relies on pulling deeply from reserve funding, set aside in past years by lawmakers to ensure the state was ready for future crises and on revenue from activities for which the legislature is still considerable distance from agreeing on regulatory frameworks — recreational marijuana and skills games. The 2025-26 budget, of course, was ultimately more than four months late to passage. State lawmakers already are echoing many of the ...
