Former Williamsport Finance Director and General Manager of the bus and transit service, William E. Nichols, has been punished. On May 5, 2025, William “Bill” Nichols, Jr., pleaded guilty to one felony count of theft by failure to make required disposition of funds received, and one ...
Pennsylvania’s judicial-retention election was the biggest in the commonwealth’s history. This seemingly innocuous off-year election drew at least $20 million—much of which came from outside the state—and garnered significant national attention, including statements by President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama. But of all the biggest influences in this election, few were as prominent as labor unions. Among the top spenders was Pennsylvanians for Judicial Fairness (PJF). This Super PAC reported the largest number of independent expenditures, raising about $5 ...
Throughout his life, Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler kept a journal. His first entry dates from March 19, 1879, when he was just two months shy of turning 18. He wrote his last entry on October 19, 1931, two days before he died. I own all of his 16,407 entries. That’s ten volumes of about 400 pages each and a font size so small you’ll need reading glasses. Like Schnitzler, I also keep a journal. In fact, my younger self was a most avid writer. While Schnitzler’s journal is a record of his daily encounters, meticulously listing the people he socialized with, my journal is the ...
Pennsylvania is finally getting the hundreds of millions of dollars it needs to bring high-speed internet to rural communities. This is our chance to connect homes, schools, farms and small businesses that have been left behind. But unless we fix a problem rooted in Pennsylvania’s ...
U.S. employers announced 153,074 job cuts in October – the worst October since 2003 – and headlines rushed to blame AI. Fair question: were the recent layoffs really caused by AI? Mostly, no. Cost-cutting was the top reason in October, with AI a distant second (roughly 20% of those layoffs). The sectors leading reductions – tech and warehousing – are also the ones that over-hired during the boom and are now normalizing. Meanwhile, the Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow model is tracking -4.0% real GDP growth again, keeping the “reacceleration” narrative alive. But a big slice of that ...
I would like to challenge Tim Mannello’s statement about the The Constitution, the Bible and Christian nationalism. Abraham Lincoln’s summary of this nation is a “government of the people, for the people, by the people “. And that comes from John Wycliffe, a Catholic and Christian reformer. Many of the world greatest historians (such as von Ranke, Taine, D’Augibne, and Bancroft) see John Calvin as the ideological “father of America”. It was his ideas that directed the American Revolution. The first pilgrims off of the Mayflower made a covenantal pact (thought of as ...
