A recent plan by California to require all new cars sold in the state run on either electricity or hydrogen is excessive and impractical. The proposal, if allowed by federal regulators, would take effect in 2035 — probably the concept’s only begrudging concession to reality. While ...

Plumbers. Welders. Electricians. Carpenters. Machine operators. HVAC technicians. These are among just a few of what used to be called vocational-technical trades learned in high school. Schools are calling them CTE, or Career and Technical Education programs. Regardless, they are critical ...

Rep. Glenn Thompson, R-Bellafonte, and four other House Republicans want Gov. Tom Wolf and Eric Hagarty, acting state education secretary, to investigate parents’ concerns about explicit books — though the letter specifically mentions only one book, “Gender Queer: A Memoir” by Maia ...

It’s hard to believe more traffic stops in Pennsylvania haven’t been challenged because of a section of state traffic law stating license plates can’t be “obscured in any manner.” A plain reading of the law means tens of thousands of drivers in the state are driving vehicles with ...

Remember reforms that raised up those who toil on this Labor Day Our country has occasionally fallen short of certain ideals. When it has fallen short, the words our leaders say about those ideals are merely platitudes. And one topic on which the United States in its earliest days risked ...

Discrimination should have no place in America’s schools. A provision in a teachers’ contract in Minneapolis tries to flaunt what should be a bedrock principle, hard-won over decades of the U.S. falling short of that ideal. The provision, as reported by the Associated Press, exempts ...