By Nick Jacobs While waiting to swallow a pill-sized camera for a 21st-century medical procedure recently, I was scrolling through my phone and found a great quote, but back to that in a minute. The movie I remembered while waiting was the 1966 movie “The Fantastic Voyage.” It starred ...
By Kent James The first of three parts. On Oct 7 last year, Hamas militants invaded Israel and killed more than 1,300 people, most of them civilians. While some argue that resisting by force is justified, purposefully killing civilians is terrorism. It was the latest chapter in a long ...
By Gary Stout In 2023, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court issued its long-awaited opinion that found our state’s system of public education to be unconstitutional. In a 786-page opinion, the court held that the state had not adequately funded schools in poor communities, failing in its ...
By Colin McNickle We have opined about the deleterious effects of no regular property reassessments in Allegheny County for more than a decade. “Fairness” has become but a quaint notion. And the nose-thumbing to the state Constitution’s uniform taxation clause has been a breathtaking ...
By Nick Jacobs My wife and I recently decided to take a tour of a 55 and older, upscale, senior living community. We were aware of several friends who had done this, and as we approached octogenarian status, it seemed like the smart thing to do. Truth be told, however, we had experienced a ...
By Gary Stout “The stability of democracies depends on the possibility of elections to be destabilizing.” The New Yorker, Jan. 15 edition. Now that the domestic election season has begun, Americans are focused on the 2024 presidential campaign. There is little drama left in the ...
