So-called “Pro-Life” PA Senator Bob Casey lacks his father’s conviction. As abortions are deemed essential and federal funds flow to Planned Parenthood, Casey is — as usual — silent.
By Christine Flowers.
The Editors: Dr. Rachel Levine should resign as PA Health Secretary
Dr. Rachel Levine pursued a ruinous policy of forcing PA nursing homes to reabsorb Covid-positive patients — and then quietly moved her 95 year-old mother to a fancy hotel. This Editorial Board calls for her resignation as PA Health Secretary.
Wally Zimolong: Governor Wolf has a waiver problem
With his arbitrary waiver program, Governor Wolf undermined public trust at a critical time in Pennsylvania.
By Wally Zimolong
Kevin Mooney: GOP lawmakers get in Wolf’s ear to bring construction industry back to work
Pennsylvania construction workers who operate in rural areas where they can avoid large crowds are eager to get back to work.
By Kevin Mooney
Hunter Tower: A three-month moratorium on public union dues would pump $63 million into coronavirus aid efforts
A three-month moratorium on union dues paid by the state’s public employees would generate an additional $63 million for the Keystone State — without costing the taxpayers a dime. By Hunter Tower.
Matthew J. Brouillette: Kids are short-changed when schools refuse to change
In Philadelphia, schools have made an outlandish decision: if every child can’t learn, nobody should. Across the state, Gov. Wolf has gone after cyber charters.Matthew Brouillette of Commonwealth Partners reports.
Christine Flowers: Governor Wolf shuts schools, bans elective medical procedures but protects all abortions
Governor Wolf persists in pretending that he cares about the welfare of the least among us, but hypocritically continues to let women destroy their unborn babies while prohibiting all other elective medical procedures.
By Christine Flowers
Linda A. Kerns: When pitting public health against the economy, we cannot abandon reasonableness and commonsense
We must do what we can to stop the spread of this horrible virus but we cannot let our leaders issue unchecked edicts.
By Linda A. Kerns
Matthew Lau: Minimum wage, maximum damage in PA
Raising the minimum wage effectively cuts the bottom rung off the economic ladder and, by impeding the lowest-skilled workers from gaining the job experience needed to move upwards, increases poverty in the long run and hurts those workers the policy purports to help.
By Matthew Lau