Groundhog Day arrived early in Chester County this year — two full days ahead of the typical February 2 date. Shortly after 4 p.m. on January 30, 2025, Jeanne Franklin, the county health director, launched a ridiculous defense of her indefensible decision to ban the volunteers at St. Agnes Church […]
Katie Hetherington Cunfer: Making the case for school facilities funding
In 2024, Governor Josh Shapiro and the General Assembly awarded $250 million in public school facilities funding to nearly 300 school districts and career and technical schools. These funds, provided in the form of competitive, matching grants under the Public School Facilities Improvement Grant (PSFIG) and the Public Schools Environmental […]
Beth Ann Rosica: Pennsylvania agency ignores Trump’s executive order on two sexes
One of President Trump’s first executive orders has quickly put hundreds of school districts across the commonwealth in a legal quandary over gender designations, as the newly signed order is in direct conflict with state regulations. Titled, Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal […]
Thom Nickels: Daniel P. Mannix and Peter the Python
The Mannix farm was a legendary place in an area that was then called Bacton Hill. It was known as such because it’s owner, Daniel P. Mannix, was known as an adventure writer who traveled the world with his wife, Jule Junker Mannix, in search of wild animals to bring […]
Rep. Tim O’Neal: The high cost of Shapiro’s energy agenda
Failed initiatives and misguided mandates leave Pennsylvania residents footing the bill for unreliable power.
By Rep. Tim O’Neal
David Reel: Addressing border security and immigration reform
Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu said: “A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.” On the issue of American border security and immigration laws reform, that journey may be close to starting that single step with enactment of the Laken Riley bill in Congress. Riley, a University of […]
Paul Davis: Biden lets Philly murderer Kaboni Savage off of death row
President Biden’s parting gift to America was to pardon or commute the sentences of scores of violent criminals. One of the criminals whose death sentence was commuted to life in prison was Kaboni Savage, a major Philadelphia drug dealer who ordered multiple murders, including the murder of four children. Retaliating […]
Stu Bykofsky: Sanctuary cities plan to defy immigration law, still
I see a strange, unlikely parallel between the promise of churches to resist deportation of “migrants” (correct term, illegal residents) and the action of churches 60 years ago to protect civil rights protestors. The crucial difference is the civil rights protestors of yore were trying to demand federal law, while […]
Beth Ann Rosica: ChesCo bureaucrats end hot meals for needy West Chester families
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, what are you doing for others?” Martin Luther King, Jr. posed that question to an audience in Montgomery, Alabama in 1957 — 68 years ago — and today, it still holds important meaning to many volunteers in our own communities. Dr. King, if […]
Will Sunday and Trump spell trouble for the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office?
In the last two weeks of his administration, then-President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, our nation’s highest civilian honor, to Democratic megadonor George Soros. While the 94-year old billionaire was not able to attend, his son Alex Soros, recently engaged to Hillary Clinton deputy Huma Abedin, accepted […]