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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 TribLIVE's 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 proud exception is Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.
Sylvia Neely AP TribLIVE's 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 fear each other, hate the other side and refuse to listen to people with whom they disagree. In such a...
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. TribLIVE's 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 true — the various fuels feeding the conflagration — but you know them. To one degree or another,...