Virginia’s legislature has moved to ban the death penalty, a popular action in some quarters. Before Gov. Ralph Northam signs the bill into law, he should think about three victims: Debbie Dudley Davis, Susan Hellams and Susan Tucker. The three — along with two other women — were raped ...
For someone who purports to believe in free and fair elections, Gov. Tom Wolf has a funny way of showing it. In May, during the primary election, voters will be presented with three ballot questions about proposed amendments to the Pennsylvania Constitution. Normally, questions like these ...
As one of his first official acts since assuming the presidency, Joe Biden signed an executive order declaring that females are not equal, at least those who are biologically female. OK, nothing he signed used those exact words. But his proclamation will have that effect. On the day he took ...
The Supreme Court has — regrettably, in our view — put an end to challenges over the way our state managed the 2020 election, and in doing so, allowed disgraced former Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar a minor victory in her forced retirement. On Monday, the high court threw out ...
Think whatever you want about the fairness of Twitter banning Donald Trump from its platform, but reasonable people should quash this notion that Twitter’s decision somehow is a violation of the First Amendment. Instead, reasonable people — which hopefully still includes a few lawmakers ...
Rush Limbaugh’s death on Wednesday brings to an end not only an era of conservative broadcasting that may never be matched, but also opens the door for Congress to try — again — to put an end to the genre that Limbaugh created. From humble roots as a disc jockey in Western Pennsylvania, ...
It has been well publicized how nursing homes and long-term care facilities were and continue to be among the most vulnerable places to COVID-19 outbreaks. Not only are the residents at these facilities mostly in the highest-risk age groups, many of them also have underlying medical conditions ...
Next year will open the proverbial window to some semblance of fiscal sunshine for the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission. It is on July 1, 2022, that much of the turnpike agency’s annual supplemental-funding obligation to the state Department of Transportation for transit services under ...
Admittedly, given the spike of COVID-19 cases and deaths locally in December and January, we weren’t sure we’d get this far, but we have arrived at the time of year when the winter sports postseason begins for the area’s high school athletes. That means instead of just playing local ...
Over the past year, the coronavirus pandemic has been fraught with errors and miscalculations, not only by Washington, but in numerous state capitals as well. The approximately half-million U.S. deaths from the virus — not to mention the millions of people who recovered — deliver a ...