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OP-ED: Outdated township construction law costly to taxpayers

The Pennsylvania law governing township construction projects is as old as Henry FordĢƵ Model T, operates as ineffectively as an orchestra without a conductor and equates to a 10% tax on commonwealth residents.When township governments in Pennsylvania engage in a construction project, they ...

OP-ED: Drew Gilpin Faust grew into ‘necessary trouble’

WASHINGTON - This nation is awash with heated and ungenerous judgments about its past and about Americans who lived before we ascended to todayĢƵ sunny uplands of enlightenment. So, for your final summer read, try something tonally different: Drew Gilpin FaustĢƵ memoir “Necessary Trouble: ...

OP-ED: Vivek Ramaswamy’s Jan. 6 charade

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 ...

EDITORIAL: Pennsylvania’s education funding should be rebuilt

Pennsylvanians have spent years — decades, really — begging the state to find a better way to fund education.School districts in the Keystone State operate primarily on real estate taxes. An April report from advocacy group PA Schools Work estimates that 84% of the 500 school districts in ...

OP-ED: Pro-lifers should change tactics

This November, Pennsylvanians will elect a new judge to the stateĢƵ 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. ...