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Legislation will help hold line on prices

By CHUCK MORAN, ALEX BALOGA, CARSON BAKER, TED HARRIS and JOE MASSARO Inflation continues to eat away at our families’ budgets here in Pennsylvania and across the nation. In many ways, our industries are on the front lines as we provide food, fuel, lodging, and community support to families who are now hard-pressed to manage their finances in these times. Because of this, we are very sensitive to costs and wish not to raise prices unless unavoidable. Accordingly, we examine every expense that goes into the products and services we offer. Some of those costs are determined by the ...

Corporate welfare for select businesses keeps the state down

Just before the end of the legislative season, Pennsylvania lawmakers passed a package of tax credits that will, over time, dole out $2 billion in corporate welfare to select businesses. Favoring politically connected corporations and industries at the expense of broader tax reform isn’t new. For years, Pennsylvania has led the nation in corporate welfare, even though these handouts have done little to improve the state’s economy or business climate. Pennsylvania businesses face real challenges — including an unfriendly business climate, excessive regulatory red tape, inability ...

Long COVID — think of it this way

Imagine this. You feel tired most of the time. Going about your normal activities is so exhausting that you skip chores and even fun activities. You have trouble concentrating; your head feels “foggy.” Your joints often hurt, your muscles ache. You feel feverish. It’s hard to breathe sometimes. You have chest pains or heart palpitations. You don’t sleep well anymore. You can’t do your job like you know you should — or at all. You had the flu once — this is what it felt like — but you got over that. This isn’t going away, or if it does, it keeps coming back. Your life is ...

After attack, who is to blame?

The mental exercise for the day will be answering the following questions: Nancy Pelosi’s husband was struck at least twice by a deranged man who was able to wrestle a hammer from the husband of Nancy. Who is to blame? 1. Republicans. 2. Democrats. 3. Mental health problems. 4. The internet. 5. All of the above. 6. None of the above. If you decided not to answer any of these questions, you are the winner. The truth is that all of these answers and none of them account for the attack on the speaker’s husband. Both Democrats and Republicans have played the game of ...

I stand with the Constitution

The political climate in the United States nears an instability unwitnessed by anyone alive today. We hear calls for revolution across the political spectrum amid a national debate over the intent of the Constitution – the very foundation of our republic that’s transformed our American experiment into a symbol of opportunity, freedom and constancy across the world. No matter your interpretations about the framers’ vision for this country, we can all agree the U.S. Constitution has been the guiding principle that’s carried us through every internal conflict over the last two and ...

Myths about COVID-19’s risks, transmission still unfortunately exist

You only get one chance to make a first impression. So I was told several years ago when I was preparing for an interview. Whether my presentation went smoothly or awry, whether or not I dressed appropriately or responded with accurate or misleading information, good or bad, it would most likely be one specific item or behavior that would be remembered with my name. The same goes with our first impression of COVID when it entered our lives over two years ago. If you remember, it was originally believed that only the older adult was at risk of contracting the potentially deadly ...