A rescued gopher tortoise arrived at the Nokuse Nature Preserve in Florida’s Panhandle while my sister Erica and I were there. It didn’t know how lucky it was. Across Florida, builders are required to obtain permits from the state to capture and relocate gopher tortoises found on ...

Democrat Janet Mills, governor of Maine, is running against Susan Collins, the state’s Republican senator since 1997. An established political figure would be running against another established political figure, yet the current reportage for Mills tends to start off with “77-year-old Janet ...

A consequential off-year election is weeks away and our mailboxes are stuffed with political flyers. One, from a free-markets organization known as the Commonwealth Leaders Fund, opposes the retention of three Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices who were elected as Democrats. The flyer ...

I am an autistic adult who also has ADHD and I would like to say something about the remarks that our president has made about autism and the use of Tylenol by pregnant women. Whenever my mom was pregnant with me, she did not use Tylenol nor any over the counter medication. Nor did she ...

Only two countries on earth let drug companies pitch their products directly to you and me: New Zealand and the United States. Canada dabbled in these direct-to-consumer ads but quickly tightened up their rules. The European Union, back in 2008, took one look and said, “Nope — not ...

Pennsylvania’s rural communities are suffering from a healthcare provider shortage that has reached crisis proportions. As a new analysis by the Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute documents, over half of the Commonwealth’s 67 counties have partial or severe shortages of primary care ...