Give them a hot-button topic that doesn’t actually affect the lives of ordinary people and politicians will waste no time hopping on and digging in. But when the issue is something of great significance to the rest of us — individuals and their employers — they drag their feet. That is ...
There are certain things we can depend upon in Pennsylvania. As certain as the sun will rise, there will be potholes, there will be football rivalries and the state Legislature will lock horns over something that should be an easy compromise. But hey, sometimes the potholes get paved (except at the Pittsburgh Mills). Sometimes your rivals have a year when they don’t play each other. Sometimes — albeit rarely –the General Assembly will find common ground on something the lawmakers all care about. However, one thing we know to be as reliable as gravity is the increase in tolls on ...
While some states are fighting back against U.S. Justice Department requests for access to their voter registration lists and other elections information, Ohio has begun the four-year process of ensuring voter rolls here are as clean as they can be. Among the states that have received requests from the federal government so far, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Wisconsin have simply said “no.” Officials there say they have questions about the legality of the requests and how the information will be used. After all, state (and, really, county) elections officials are responsible for ...
It has been 33 months since Pennsylvania elected Gov. Josh Shapiro. Three Super Bowls, a Summer Olympics and a presidential election ago, the expensive festivities for his inauguration were held. The election that will decide his second term is closer than that election and ...
The 19th Grand Slam Parade Tuesday will welcome the 2025 Little League World Series to Lycoming County. The parade, as always, will be held on the downtown streets of Little League’s birthplace before the games begin across the river in South Williamsport. Hosting the Little League World ...
Video released in late July by state Attorney General Letitia James of an officer-involved shooting in Mina earlier this year is graphic, disturbing and not for the faint of heart. It’s also an unfortunately real depiction of police work here in Chautauqua County, particularly when officers are responding to domestic incidents that are all too prevalent here. James released footage from two body-worn cameras that her office obtained as part of its ongoing investigation into the death of 66-year-old Mark Bemis, who died on June 18 following an encounter with members of the ...
