Politics & Policy

Taxes are the price we pay to live in a free society. Someone has to pay for the police and fire departments, the courts and judges, the ...

Philadelphia’s chief integrity officer Joan Markman has released a chill ...

The firing of Philadelphia School Superintendent Arlene Ackerman and the million dollar buy-out of her contract, which had only recently ...

A legal battle in Philadelphia could make the city police officers’ union a powerful political force. The union is suing to require ...

An area computer consultant is offering software he says will handle everything you need to run a political campaign, completely free. ...

A former Pennsylvania congressman who fought to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is celebrating the end of the controversial mili ...

Facing a tough re-election year, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania has criticized President Barack Obama’s jobs proposal. Casey t ...

Which annoys you more? People who spew tobacco smoke into the air without regard for how what they are doing might affect your hea ...

In its desperate effort to generate “green jobs”, the Obama administration in 2009 directed $528 million taxpayer dollars, mo ...

By now, you might well be weary of 9/11 reminiscence. But it’s a hard topic to avoid on this day. My job on that day was no ...

This week I participated in a panel produced by the Foreign Policy Research Institute to try to answer questions about 9/11 from high sch ...