A recent executive order by President Donald Trump to streamline regulations and allow more timber to be harvested from U.S. Forest Service lands invites what possibly could be a trivia question: Under which U.S. department’s jurisdiction does the U.S. Forest Service fall? If you answered ...
We believe organizations — public or private — are best equipped to reach the best decisions with more information, not less. With that in mind, we find the Shapiro administration’s decision to end the collection of data regarding why elderly Pennsylvanians whose care is under active ...
The headlines have hit like blows from a hammer on Frederick County. “Local nonprofits face funding uncertainty” “Over $9 million for community projects left out of stopgap funding bill” “USDA ends program that helped schools serve food from local farmers” “Thousands face layoffs from federal jobs” All shocking, all representing the loss of a career, or the loss of federal support for a local program designed to help those in need. But none might be more puzzling than the headline that said: “In-person training at National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg ...
As time passes, the excesses of President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act become more and more clear. Recent analysis by the Competitive Enterprise Institute confirms that the cost projections for the law when it was passed were woefully — perhaps even deliberately — inadequate. ...
The Loyalsock Township High School Lancers are the 2025 girls’ basketball state championships. On these occasions, we often praise the successes of our local young people and note the role that hard work, teamwork and dedication played in reaching those successes. Of course, the Lancers ...
Does the pope keep a detailed time card? That’s a joke, but it’s also a legal argument relevant to a case at the Supreme Court on Monday. Under Wisconsin law, the Diocese of Superior is exempt from paying taxes into the state’s unemployment system. Yet the state says this opt out doesn’t cover the diocese’s Catholic Charities nonprofit and its sub-entities. “Their activities are secular in nature,” the Wisconsin Supreme Court, newly controlled by a 4-3 liberal majority, held last year. They “neither attempt to imbue program participants with the Catholic faith nor ...
