In the 1950s, American psychologist Abraham Maslow developed a hierarchy of the things people need to thrive. The premise is straightforward. To flourish, human beings first require that their basic needs – like having enough to eat – are met. Our federal lawmakers are failing an ...
No matter when and/or how Pennsylvania’s budget impasse ends, members of the General Assembly need to exercise an examination of conscience into why they allowed the current fiscal embarrassment to persist for so long — now having passed the three-month mark for a basic budget-preparation ...
Miss: Nearly 2 million Pennsylvanians who depend on food assistance are beginning to feel the effects of the ongoing federal government shutdown. The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services announced last week that benefits from the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program will not be ...
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, in every store you go. Prelit and flocked trees, ornaments, 20-foot-tall inflatable snowmen and jingling bells made an appearance in both brick-and-mortar and online retail stores well before Halloween. To quote The Grinch, "Hate, hate, hate. ...
Hit: We can’t help but marvel at the resilience and strength demonstrated by Jen Pardini, whose life was forever altered two years ago at the hands of her ex-boyfriend, who brutally attacked her with a hammer, fracturing her skull and nearly ending her life. Rather than retreat from the ...
Christopher Beers and his cohorts from Grandpa’s Joe’s were out and about before the quack of dawn a few weeks back to pull off a caper unlike any other in Canonsburg. Angling to ruffle a few feathers, the candy shop owner and his team, under the cover of darkness, secretly planted 2,000 ...
