As we approach another budget cycle in Pennsylvania, we face many of the same challenges as years past. The affordability crisis continues to plague families and the state’s future financial outlook looks grim. In a nutshell, the state is spending more than it is taking in. Gov. Josh Shapiro ...
Several years ago, I penned a commentary designed to escape the troubling news of the day. The article imagined that similar to the numerous awards shows that honor actors, directors and other creative types, there should be a comparable “Hall of Fame” to honor humanists. These individuals ...
The Washington County Commissioners took a controversial vote in 2020 to take nearly $300,000 in federal and state funding from our local Washington County Food Bank and give it to the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. The reasoning at the time was that the Greater Pittsburgh Community ...
The Trump administration provides new issues daily for elected officials, policy experts, journalists, and economists to argue about. Under this constant barrage, the ever-present elephant in the room is the problem that gets ignored. Such is America’s case regarding the looming worldwide ...
It was a bone-chilling day in Washington County on Jan. 22, 1988, but the chilliness I remember had nothing to do with the weather. While the temperature did dip to a low 23 degrees in Washington County that day, I remember it for the cold-hearted crime that occurred 38 years ago along ...
Misinformation is circulating that Washington County is spending $6 million in county tax money to subsidize a private developer at the former Washington Mall site. That claim is categorically false. The county is using federal grant money – funds that cannot be spent on anything else and ...
