With the passing of Mother’s Day, it is a good opportunity to reflect on motherhood, the importance of families and the qualities we praise in mothers. We hope our readers had the opportunity to share their appreciation with all the mothers in their lives. We also hope everyone can ...

The region’s chapter of Blue Star Mothers of America deserves a measure of appreciation — though we suspect they would humbly insist we instead continue to appreciate those who serve and sacrifice for our country instead. The group organized a recent ceremony to express our communities’ ...

Across Pennsylvania, thousands of families are waiting in limbo, unsure whether their loved ones with intellectual disabilities and autism (ID/A) will ever get the care they need. This month, Gov. Josh Shapiro made an ambitious promise to help them, one they’ve been waiting to hear for a long ...

President Joe Biden recently presented 19 people with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. One of the 19 recipients of the Medal of Freedom stood out to us as particularly noteworthy. Medgar Evers truly served his country — first in the U.S. Army, serving in combat during World War II, then ...

We’ve listed the flaws with the Biden Administration’s approach to student-loan debt repeatedly — including that the “forgiveness” of these student loans fails to address the root causes of staggering increases in what tuition costs families and that, with a $34 trillion national ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro continues to shroud his conduct — the business of taxpaying Pennsylvanians — in an unacceptable level of secrecy. As a Spotlight PA report in this past weekend’s edition of the Sun-Gazette noted, in the previous year Pennsylvania’s governor accepted about $12,000 in ...