As the debate over cyber charter schools intensifies, Pennsylvanians deserve both facts and context in order to come to informed conclusions. Unfortunately, a recent story in the <em>Observer-Reporter</em> and <em>Herald-Standard</em>, ...
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Vivek Ramaswamy thinks Mike Pence failed.The former vice president is a MAGA villain for doing his constitutional duty on Jan. 6, 2021, so Ramaswamy has to find a way to wiggle out of endorsing his conduct on that day, no matter how convoluted or inane.On “Meet the Press” recently, he went ...
This November, Pennsylvanians will elect a new judge to the state’s Supreme Court. The contest is shaping up as another donnybrook pitting pro-life and pro-choice forces against one another. It doesn’t require a Ph.D. in political science to guess how this one is going to turn out. ...
The influx of pandemic-spawned federal stimulus money boosted Pennsylvania general fund revenues in fiscal 2021 and 2022. But it also led to even more government spending, according to a researcher at the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy.And that’s likely not sustainable.“(T)he state ...
President Joe Biden was “fine,” according to White House Communications Director Ben LaBolt, after tripping over a sandbag at a U.S. Air Force graduation ceremony on June 1.But his fall was caught on live camera – and people on social media speculated about what was behind it.Biden, ...
Should he? Would he? Could he?These days, there is no way to escape all the talk about whether President Biden should pardon former President Trump, or whether the former president could pardon himself if elected to another term. All of it is just further dividing us at a time when it’s so ...