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THE ISSUE In the Sunday LNP | LancasterOnline “Watchdog” column, reporter Carter Walker wrote about a Lancaster County constable’s private business, started at the beginning of the pandemic, which “has won most, if not all, of the lucrative no-bid contracts to provide security to facilities related to COVID-19, paid for with public funds.” Lancaster County’s 55 constables — elected officials who often serve low-level warrants and transport prisoners for the district courts — are paid per job, Walker reported. And we can appreciate the initiative of Mich...

THE ISSUE Today begins Sunshine Week, which highlights the fight for transparency in government and access to public information. Led by the News Leaders Association and organizations including the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association, Sunshine Week aims to increase public awareness of open-meetings and open-records laws like Pennsylvania’s Right-to-Know Law and Sunshine Act. The restrictions and challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic didn’t stop the work of journalists over the past year but did make it tougher. Pandemic-related emergencies gave the Wolf administration, for instance, so...

Or better yet, let’s call it what it is: Utterly undemocratic. County Election Board members Joyce Dombroski-Gebhardt and Keith Gould - both Republicans - made a mockery of their solemn duties and turned Luzerne County election governance into an autocratic, lawless troika of self-serving GOP wingnuts when they ignored advice of an attorney paid to guide them and appointed County Councilman Stephen J. Urban as new board chairman. To be perfectly clear, this has absolutely nothing to do with which party these three scofflaws belong to. Their action, and their mealy-mouthed, hubris-filled jus...

In an important step toward opening up a government process that has traditionally been cloaked in secrecy, a panel of judges on Tuesday said applications for individuals hoping to fill

This movement for change, a rare American cause around which many on the left and right unite, does not play out on paper, but in real human lives - the hearts, minds and captive bodies of defendants, and the prospects for their families and communities, which both crime and misguided justice policies harm. In a country governed by the rule of law and founded on the yet-unrealized promise of equal justice, it is not something we can afford to botch. Take Carl Knight, who shares his story in an exclusive interview published by the Erie Times-News. This 49-year-old Erie man made headlines two d...