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I want to lower taxes for working families in Pennsylvania. I know in the days since my budget address you’ve probably heard a whole lot from other people about my plan — what they like, what they hate, what they wish I had said instead. This year, because of the

Dave Kitzinger AP   TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. One of the reasons I used to be Republican is that I thought of the GOP as the party of brass tacks. While Democrats had wild and ambitious ideas about how the world should be, Republicans always struck me as the ones who took what the world gave them and made the most of it. Now, I think a lot of the Republican Party is living in a fantasy world, but one p...

Sylvia Neely AP   TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Last year I read Ezra Klein’s book “Why We’re Polarized.” He traced the history of partisanship, explaining the ways parties have evolved, the changing role of the media and the crucial influence of identity politics. The horrifying events on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6 were the culmination of this corrosive process that has made many Americans come to fea...

We welcome the new year with nearly 22 million confirmed covid-19 cases and 365,000 deaths. The U.S. leads the world in total confirmed cases and deaths, while also ranking second in confirmed cases per capita and seventh in deaths per capita (for countries with a population over 10 million). The

Steve Johnson Shane Dunlap | Tribune-Review Cyclists ride on the Yough River Trail section of the Great Allegheny Passage Oct. 12in West Newton.   TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. I think most of us would gladly erase 2020 from our memories, in the same way that certain tall buildings fail to acknowledge the 13th floor. By almost any measure, it’s been a trash fire of a year. I could list what makes this tr...

Caleb Verbois Win McNamee/Getty Images   TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Every semester in my introductory American Government class, I have my students read a short speech written by a 28-year-old over 150 years ago. It turned into one of the most important speeches in American history, even though many people have forgotten it today. The speaker, a relatively unknown Midwestern lawyer, was concerned about ...

President-elect Joe Biden needs a large-scale project that will summon the political class and national imagination to rescue the country from another four years of partisan distrust. A bold infrastructure program to reshape the American economy for a more prosperous and greener future could be just the ticket. Congestion alone

“Read his remarks now, and you want to cry, because so little has changed” stated the Des Moines Register, referring to the wisdom, humor, wit, philosophy, power of observation, popularity, and political and cultural influence of Will Rogers, the chronicler of an age, serving, because he did it better than

TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) recently granted approval for the transfer of the license of Three Mile Island Unit-2 (TMI-2) from FirstEnergy, a public utility, to TMI-2 Solutions, a limited liability corporation based in Utah. The NRC approved the license transfer without holding a hearing. TMI-Alert speaks in opposition to such a move. Why should you be concerned abou...

Mary Carney Tribune-Review Nurse Charity Patterson talks to patient Denise Shaffer at Excela Frick Hospital in Mt. Pleasant Feb. 10.   TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. As we brace ourselves for another wave in covid-19 cases, we are reminded of the gratitude and overwhelming need for health care professionals. The rollout of the vaccine is giving us a sense of hope for the future, but Pennsylvania is still gr...