Our editorial board’s position likely will not come as a surprise. A state budget proposal that, for the first time in history, spends more than $50 billion is irresponsible. As the Associated Press notes, Gov. Josh Shapiro’s proposal increases spending over the previous year — a ...
We found our examination of how homelessness effects our region, published in the Feb. 1-2 edition of the Sun-Gazette, illuminating. First, we appreciate all of the hard, important work that the American Rescue Workers and other organizations and agencies do to provide shelter to the ...
There is one more professional football game to be played in the 2024-2025 season. There are few Americans who have not heard of this particular contest called the Super Bowl. The sporting event that will take place Sunday evening has essentially no equal. Sure, there are the Olympics, the World Series, the Stanley Cup finals and the NBA championships. The excitement of those events are all spread over a number of days. Sunday’s Super Bowl, however, will pack all the excitement into a few intense hours. The upcoming clash of the AFC champion Kansas City Chiefs and the NFC ...
Imagine what people in communities across Pennsylvania are thinking as Penn State fuels speculation that some of its branch campuses might be targeted for possible closing — in large part by remaining tight-lipped about which campuses could be in danger of being shuttered. We suspect ...
We believe the fifth circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals made the correct decision last week when it struck down a federal law prohibiting 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds from purchasing handguns. “Ultimately, the text of the Second Amendment includes eighteen-to-twenty-year-old individuals ...
Head Start has been something of a sacred cow in Washington since its creation in 1965. The $12.3 billion federal program provides pre-school services to nearly 790,000 low-income children each year. But a report released last week by the Government Accountability Office reveals serious negligence and fiscal mismanagement in Head Start, putting at risk the very children the program claims to help. The report studies Head Start programs that are operating under interim management, meaning those whose former managers—usually local agencies or nonprofits—gave up or lost their federal ...
