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By Adam Marles,the president and CEO of LeadingAge PA, the voice of not-profit senior care in Pennsylvania.
By Sam Rohrer, president of the American Pastors Network and Pennsylvania Pastors Network and former Pennsylvania state representative for the 128th District
By Dr. Arthur H. Garrison. LP.D. | Associate Professor Criminal Justice Department Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Principal Authors Maureen Madden and Tom Mehaffie, both state representatives, say a bipartisan group of Pa. legislators are preparing a bill to help workers in the public sector to join unions.
What would you think if you learned that a New Hampshire-based private timber company was approved for a $50 million loan from the state of Pennsylvania to purchase timberland in northwest Pennsylvania?
By Arthur H. Garrison, associate professor of criminal justice at Kutztown University
By Pa. Sen. Bob Mensch, (R) Pennsylvania's 24th District (Berks, Bucks and Montgomery counties)
A person is leaving Pennsylvania every 12 minutes. Why? Because as President Harry Truman said: "In periods when there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change t…
Dear members of our Bucks County community, and all of our prayerful supporters across the country,
The first budget blueprint to Congress has caused a great deal of concern and confusion. Many media outlets, for instance, incorrectly reported initially that the government was defunding Meals on Wheels programs.
By Arthur H. Garrison, assistant professor of criminal justice at Kutztown University
By Arthur H. Garrison, assistant professor of criminal justice at Kutztown University
Opponents of the PennEast pipeline sent a strong message to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission at its public hearing in Clinton on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the PennEast Pipeline by refusing to comply with a ‘public pa…
The massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Conn., in December 2012 had a profound impact on how I would vote as a member of the U.S. Senate.
In 1860 the Republican Party, at a contested election, selected Lincoln as their nominee. They also established that the party supported the limitation of slavery to the south and opposed its expansion in the west. As Lincoln said during the …
After three Super Tuesdays, the final three in the Republican Party are Trump, Cruz, and Kasich. The insurgencies of Trump and Cruz have pushed out the vanity candidacies of Carly Fiorina and Christopher Christie, the never-had-a-chance candi…
Trump, Cruz, and Rubio are now in a nasty competition not only for the nomination of the Republican Party but, more importantly, for control of an insurgency reminiscent of 1964.
By Pa. Sen. Bob Mensch, (R) Pennsylvania's 24th District (Berks, Bucks and Montgomery counties)
By Gov. Tom Wolf, D-Pennsylvania
TODAY: Brisk and quite cold despite plenty of sunshine. High: 35TONIGHT: Clear to partly cloudy and quite cold. Low: 19THURSDAY: Not as cold with a mix of clouds and sunshine. High: 43 Low: 26
By Adam Marles,the president and CEO of LeadingAge PA, the voice of not-profit senior care in Pennsylvania.
By Sam Rohrer, president of the American Pastors Network and Pennsylvania Pastors Network and former Pennsylvania state representative for the 128th District
By Dr. Arthur H. Garrison. LP.D. | Associate Professor Criminal Justice Department Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Principal Authors Maureen Madden and Tom Mehaffie, both state representatives, say a bipartisan group of Pa. legislators are preparing a bill to help workers in the public sector to join unions.
What would you think if you learned that a New Hampshire-based private timber company was approved for a $50 million loan from the state of Pennsylvania to purchase timberland in northwest Pennsylvania?
By Arthur H. Garrison, associate professor of criminal justice at Kutztown University
By Pa. Sen. Bob Mensch, (R) Pennsylvania's 24th District (Berks, Bucks and Montgomery counties)
A person is leaving Pennsylvania every 12 minutes. Why? Because as President Harry Truman said: "In periods when there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better." Pennsylvania has no leaders…
Dear members of our Bucks County community, and all of our prayerful supporters across the country,
In 1860 the Republican Party, at a contested election, selected Lincoln as their nominee. They also established that the party supported the limitation of slavery to the south and opposed its expansion in the west. As Lincoln said during the campaign, slavery in the south was a snake in the …
After three Super Tuesdays, the final three in the Republican Party are Trump, Cruz, and Kasich. The insurgencies of Trump and Cruz have pushed out the vanity candidacies of Carly Fiorina and Christopher Christie, the never-had-a-chance candidacy of Ben Carson, and now the establishment cand…
Trump, Cruz, and Rubio are now in a nasty competition not only for the nomination of the Republican Party but, more importantly, for control of an insurgency reminiscent of 1964.
