In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Biden Administration’s effort to forgive student loans, it is worth revisiting one of our objections to the attempt by the White House to unilaterally address the issue. We still believe the proposal would have been too ...

A Commonwealth Foundation poll shows a lot of Pennsylvanians are considering relocation. Tell us something we didn’t know. Pennsylvania has been aware of its changing demographics for years. Decades, actually. Pennsylvania lost one of its seats in the U.S. House of Representatives after ...

It is no secret that great strides continue to be made in cancer treatment, but probably the most notable publicized development of 2023 thus far has been evolution of the treatment mind-set that, at least for some cancers, “aggressive” might not necessarily be better. For many cancer ...

Remember how your mother always told you to be careful crossing the street? That advice is more relevant than ever right now. While the overall number of traffic fatalities is starting to inch back down following an increase during the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of pedestrian deaths in the ...

Another important project, this time in western Pennsylvania, is being delayed and subsequently seeing its cost projections rise by our ungainly permitting process. Grants for the project were announced in 2019 — about four years ago. The project, a hydroelectric plant in Braddock, would ...

Some young people are unhappy about men and women returning to the workforce after years, months — or even days — of retirement. When asking a formerly retired individual why he or she decided to give up on a less-demanding, presumably less-stressful life, the questioner often remarks ...