For most people alive today, polio, smallpox, tetanus, measles, whooping cough, diphtheria and birth defects due to rubella (German measles) are distant rumors. But in the early 1800’s half of all children born in the United States died before their fifth birthday. A hundred years ago one ...

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy want to cut $2 trillion and make the government more efficient. It’s a high priority since the United States is barreling toward a fiscal crisis. Yet despite the mounting evidence of unsustainable spending and deficits, lots of people seem to believe that the ...

What should President-elect Donald Trump do on Day One? The answer is clear for Pennsylvania, where the president-elect campaigned the most and delivered a historic victory. Trump won Pennsylvania in large part by promising to end the Biden administration’s war on natural gas, the energy ...

LATROBE -- The making of whiskey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, has often been fraught with a fair amount of drama. Whether it was those trying to make it or those trying to drink it, the government has sought to tax and sometimes even ban both activities. Two hundred thirty years ago, William ...

It was 1874 that our beloved Pennsylvania farmers protested unfair taxation. They echoed the sentiment of the founders who rebelled against the British Empire over the question of unfair taxation. In 1791, two years after the Constitution was ratified and the United States came into ...

For two years, Gov. Josh Shapiro has talked about the need for government to “move at the speed of business.” Though rhetoric is plentiful in Harrisburg, the governor has taken real action to address regulatory reform. Thus far, the Shapiro administration has inventoried all of ...