Given the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission’s history of cost and corruption, it’s not easy for another government body to make it look good. But the state Legislature has risen to the challenge. The commission announced recently that, in January, it will raise turnpike tolls for the 16th ...
By GERALD E. SCORSE It all began with baseball. I was growing up in the 1940s in Rochester, N.Y., a farm team for the St. Louis Cardinals. I couldn’t get enough of them in the first newspaper I ever read, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. The instant it came I grabbed the sports pages, ...
Warren County motorists’ worries are in high gear when it comes to the opening of a roundabout at a major thoroughfare in the city. They are no different, however, than those on the New York state side. PennDOT started its third phase of work last week on the project at Pennsylvania Avenue ...
By Sens. RYAN AUMENT and ANTHONY WILLIAMS It’s time to sound the alarm on early literacy in Pennsylvania. Almost half of fourth-graders across our state are reading below grade level, a challenge that exists in every corner of our state — from urban cities to our rural ...
No one can say for sure how long it might be before a Forever postage stamp costs a dollar — up from the current 66-cent price that went into effect on July 9. But more and more, it seems that the $1 first-class stamp price is destined to happen perhaps even five or more years before this ...
I remember the year the children got to vote on the state insect. I have no idea what their choices were, but they were thrilled when the firefly was chosen. Fireflies provided a lot of fun for them. At night we often sat outside – either at the farm or at Hickory Heights. Since this was an ...