It’s no secret that Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) schools, now with 10 universities with 14 campuses, have undergone a drastic enrollment decline since their peak period in 2015 and 2016. But even with school consolidations and a minor student-count reversal in ...
Lately, I have been thinking about two famous quotes that help explain the importance of history. Mark Twain is credited with the statement, “History never repeats itself, but it often rhymes.” Philosopher George Santayana more pessimistically wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past, ...
When you write these commentaries long enough, issues from the past will often resurface. In March 2021, I received a phone call from now-deceased district attorney Eugene Vittone who told me about his efforts to save the Washington Drug and Alcohol Commission (WDAC) from the county's plans ...
The commemoration of Law Day is a high point in the Washington County Bar Association's yearly calendar, and one of the cornerstones of our community outreach programming. Our annual collaboration with the judiciary, county and local government, service organizations, schools, and other friends ...
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has proposed, and the state House has passed, a measure to raise the Keystone State’s minimum wage to $15 an hour to begin 2029. But a researcher at the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy says the detriments of such an increase (if adopted by the state Senate ...
For those who want to start their day on a positive note, I have a suggestion. As you rise out of bed, do not turn on the news to catch the latest 8 a.m. press conference from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Do not go to a financial channel to learn how the stock market will open. Instead, ...
