Several Pennsylvania courts have found that “skill games” — played on as many as 70,000 video terminals statewide in convenience stores, civic clubs, bars, and so on — are not games of chance. Unless the state Supreme Court overturns those decisions, the state Gaming Control Board may ...

Some pundits, and no small number of voters, believe that the ills of our politics could be cured if we only imposed term limits – everyday people would, for a couple of years, go to their state capitals or to D.C., humbly legislate, and then return to their workaday lives, unsullied and ...

Studies have found that teens who don’t get enough sleep are less alert in school, more prone to absenteeism, more prone to being overweight, depressed and in danger of picking up unhealthy habits like smoking and drug use. When you were in high school, were you one of those hapless souls ...

The U.S. inches closer to its debt ceiling as the Biden Administration and the Republican majority in Congress slowly try to reach a compromise. As the Associated Press details, reaching an unresolved debt ceiling could tip businesses into bankruptcy, sink pensions and 401k plans and cause ...

A Pennsylvania legislative committee is in favor of expanding the state’s part in oversight of railroad safety. The House Consumer Protection, Technology and Utilities Committee gave 19-2 approval to House Bill 1028. It would authorize the state to maintain a tighter grip on the way trains ...

“Tap your imaginations as you apply what you have learned here and forge your career paths.” Dr. Michael J. Reed, president of Pennsylvania College of Technology, offered this advice as our region’s 2023 commencements began. “Please consider doing less computing and more ...