Pennsylvania is currently enduring one of the worst nurse shortages in the nation. A shocking one in four nursing positions went unfilled last year — a trend experts predict will worsen, with an estimated shortfall of 20,000 nurses by 2026. Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration is doing little ...

On March 6, 2020, I made the decision to go to Brooklyn for a festival. There were 245 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the US. The chances of me meeting one of them was more than one in a million. I ended up with COVID. I was ventilated, placed on ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation,) ...

A growing budget deficit, currently at 2 million dollars. Expenses growing faster than revenues by at least double the rate. The debt obligation paid out of the general fund growing due to the Attorney General’s investigation of RVT’s prior misappropriation of funds, with additional ...

The United States has been an incredibly violent society. From the time of the Frontier right up to the present, we have been proud of our rough, tough, gun toting culture. Whether it was gangs of New York, or violence in Chicago and Los Angeles, we have had a culture of violence in this ...

Police dithered while a high schooler murdered 19 children and two teachers in an Uvalde, Texas elementary school. That gives us much to ponder. As a Pennsylvanian, I might relish the thought of Texans being all hats, boots and no backbone. Surely, law enforcement from our noble state would ...

The late US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously said states are the “laboratories of democracy.” That still being the case, policymakers in Harrisburg would do well to note how the current state of affairs is being scored by governors of other states — and, in turn, chart a new ...