After spending twenty million dollars of the taxpayers’ money, what has the new county health department delivered?
By Terry Tracy
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After spending twenty million dollars of the taxpayers’ money, what has the new county health department delivered?
By Terry Tracy
Pennsylvania has a higher percentage of volunteer firefighters than nearly any other state. Switching to full-time professionals is not feasible in most places.
By Lauren Jessop
Pennsylvania’s Open Records law is a powerful tool for transparency — one that local governments resist as hard as they can.
By Kevin Mooney
Too often, big-government bureaucrats don’t just get it wrong, they get promoted.
By Joe Gale
“If government officials aren’t bound by the rule of law, then we are subject to their whims,” a parent said. “This isn’t a left or right issue. This is a matter of fundamental civil rights.”
by Todd Shepherd
Several counties in Pennsylvania have their own health departments to chart their own course on health policy. But what does it really matter when the state can thwart that independence anytime it wants?
By Todd Shepherd
Members of Congress holding up the people’s business are not conservatives. They are crazies.
By Andy Bloom
The nation’s first three-digit mental health crisis hotline went live this summer.
By Anthony Hennen
Balancing the budget on one-time federal handouts keeps the county on a course of unsustainable spending.
By Terry Tracy
The county council’s tardiness gives citizens just six days to review the budget.
By Todd Shepherd