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 ...
Over the years in Pennsylvania politics– “decades” is the better word — some incumbent lawmakers, sincere in supporting the concept of legislative term limits, have stepped forward to advocate for such a change. Part of the thinking behind the proposal is the belief that legislative ...
We are thankful for the efforts of state Sen. Gene Yaw, R-Loyalsock Township, to better protect the right of Americans to choose for themselves how to heat and power their homes. The future prosperity of our region — and of America as a whole — depends in part on affordable energy. A ...
Ukrainian children abducted by Russian forces during the three-year war have become among the first victims in President Trump’s so-called peace process. Many of the Ukrainian children — numbering nearly 20,000 — were taken from their families by Russian troops early in the invasion and sent to live in Russia as part of what seemed an attempt at the Russification of the population by President Vladimir Putin. The abductions, experts say, are ongoing. A Yale University-based research team has been tracking the whereabouts of the children, sharing its data with the International ...
We are deeply concerned about the misrepresentations surrounding decisions by a federal judge, James E. Boasberg, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C. To be clear, Judge Boasberg has not ruled that criminal immigrants or violent immigrants cannot be deported. What ...
