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Editorials

The ticking clocks of Pennsylvania’s poor bridges

The ticking clocks of Pennsylvania’s poor bridges For the people on the Fern Hollow Bridge on Jan. 28, 2022, the unthinkable happened in a heartbeat. There was a banging sound. There was confusion. Was it a crash? There was a drop. One moment, it was a normal Friday morning, driving in ...

Stepping up on ending capital punishment

Pennsylvania’s costly, ineffective and immoral death-penalty statute remains active, even though the state hasn’t executed anyone since 1999. With more than 100 prisoners on death row, one of the nation’s largest, the statute’s exorbitant legal costs still mount, as local prosecutors ...

Proposed airline merger would bring more competition, lower fares

If you want to see a classic case of how President Joe Biden’s regulatory tendencies are strangling the U.S. economy and raising prices, look no further than the latest Justice Department efforts to kill an airline merger that is pro-consumer. JetBlue has its sights on merging with a ...

Pennsylvanians deserve better

Imagine this happening at your workplace: Your managers cannot figure out what tasks ought to take priority, and what the workplace rules ought to be, so they announce that no official action will occur for a month. Never fear, though: Everyone still gets paid. Actually, this would never ...

Simply put: Quit smoking, and don’t start

Did you know that Pennsylvania is listed as among the states with the worst policies to prevent and reduce tobacco use, according to the American Lung Association’s (ALA) recent 21st annual “State of Tobacco Control” report. In fact, Pennsylvania earned mostly failing grades on the ...

Job edict more about perception

Gov. Josh Shapiro quickly fulfilled one of his campaign promises Wednesday, just a day after his inauguration. His first executive order decrees that a four-year college degree is not a prerequisite for 92% of the 72,000 jobs under the executive branch of the state government. The order ...