Politics
June 11, 2024
IN 2022, THE U.S. SUPREME COURT decision overturning Roe v. Wade did more than just upend reproductive health law. It also made back-burner issues take on more urgency. If limits on abortion result in...
Politics
Stranger things
June 11, 2024
To the Editor: What credibility? Credibility is not a familiar word in Donald Trump’s limited vocabulary. Terms like trust worthiness, reliability, integrity and reputation come to mind when we consid...
Jay-Z enters one of Pa.’s messiest political fights
Politics
June 11, 2024
His Roc Nation company is funding informational events regarding private school vouchers. By STEPHEN CARUSO and KATIE MEYER Spotlight PA HARRISBURG — A series of events intended to get Philadelphians ...
Politics
June 10, 2024
CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION is important. It has become part of a growing conversation, as the reality and sustainability of university education are debated because of its cost. The requirement of...
The balm of care
Politics
June 10, 2024
“Oh my G*d!” It was the fall 2020, and I had just been taken by ambulance to a New York City hospital. Without a doubt, the paramedics thought I was wasting their time and was merely having a panic at...
The myth that Biden had nothing to do with the prosecutions of Trump
Politics
June 10, 2024
The five criminal and civil prosecutions of former President Donald Trump all prompt heated denials from Democrats that President Joe Biden and Democrat operatives had a role in any of them. But Biden...
Could the guilty verdict cost Donald Trump the election? Sure it could
Politics
June 7, 2024
How much will Donald Trump’s conviction in the New York hush money case matter come November? The obvious answer is that nobody knows. Still, I suspect the verdict will matter, just not in ways that a...
Politics
June 7, 2024
By MARK SHERMAN AND LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson collected nearly $900,000 last year for her upcoming memoir, one of four Supreme Court justices ...
That’s baseball, Suzyn
Politics
June 6, 2024
Iheard this story from former Sen. Jack Danforth many years ago. An ordained minister, he would occasionally conduct evening services at the National Cathedral, which sits atop the highest point in Wa...
Politics
June 6, 2024
THE THREE BRANCHES OF government can each do or not do their jobs independent of each other most of the time. The governor of Pennsylvania never has to ask permission for staying inside the lines of h...
Lock him up
Politics
June 6, 2024
To hear angry MAGA Republicans tell it, former President Donald J. Trump’s conviction for 34 felony counts of falsifying business records is a shock and an outrage. But how could anybody be surprised?...
How liberals pay for scandal silence
Politics
June 5, 2024
Ihave it on the authority of New York Times guest editorialist Norm Eisen that Trump’s 34 felony convictions concern “profoundly serious” crimes. But one point I’m still not clear on is how Trump was ...
Measuring the Trump conviction factor
Politics
June 4, 2024
If you’ve been keeping up with the news, you’ve probably heard a lot of speculation about the effect former President Donald Trump’s felony conviction will have on the 2024 presidential race. Here’s t...