With an election looming and body bags piling up at an alarming rate, can D.A. Larry Krasner skirt accountability?
By Larry Platt
Beth Ann Rosica: A reckoning for school boards
School board directors work for the tax-paying citizens in the District, not for the superintendent or the teacher’s union. And this May, that should be made clear.
By Beth Ann Rosica
Bucks lawmakers to Mayor Kenney: refund our commuters’ wage taxes
Suburban residents who normally commute into Philadelphia for work, but stayed home due to the pandemic, are facing red tape and hurdles as they try to get reimbursed for the wage taxes they paid while working from home.
By Linda Stein
Christine Flowers: If Wolf were DeSantis, what would the headlines be?
After the controversial “60 Minutes” story about Gov. DeSantis, one has to wonder what the headlines would look like if Gov. Wolf received the same treatment?
By Christine Flowers
White House report grades Pennsylvania infrastructure C-
A White House report rates Pennsylvania’s infrastructure at a C- after decades of “systemic” underfunding.
By Christen Smith
Delco signals it intends to run prison at 70 percent capacity in the future
After taking over George W. Hill prison, the Delaware County Council county intends to run the correctional facility at somewhere between 60 to 70 percent of the prison’s original capacity.
By Todd Shepherd
Jamie Walker: Bucks County parents v. the teachers’ union
As a parent in the Central Bucks County School District, I became worried about my children’s future when the schools shut down. When local health authorities said reopening was safe but schools remained closed, I decided to find out who was pulling the strings.
By Jamie Walker
Gina Diorio: How local politicians are betrayed by their union friends
PACs funded by public-sector unions often spend overwhelming sums to defeat local Republican politicians who the unions have publicly befriended and even endorsed. This shows that they are happy to rent Republicans and their votes until they can own a Democrat and their allegiance.
By Gina Diorio
Zuckerberg-funded 2020 election grants skewed heavily toward PA’s ‘blue’ counties
Approximately $20.8 million in election grants from a Zuckerburg-funded non-profit went to at least 21 Pennsylvania counties. While grant proponents say they went to both “red” and “blue” counties, a B+L analysis shows “red” county grants were a fraction of what was given to “blue” counties.
By Todd Shepherd
Guy Ciarrocchi: Small business owners showed compassion while government shut them down
Instead of celebrating the taxpayer-funded aid sent to struggling communities and businesses, true compassion—true leadership—would be to focus on putting local business owners and citizens back in charge of their own fate.
By Guy Ciarrocchi