For Pennsylvania school administrators and boards of education, this summer will present a major challenge on the health front related to, but also different from, what they were forced to contemplate during the darkest months of the COVID-19 pandemic. That formidable challenge will be the ...

We’re in the midst of high school graduation season. The Class of 2021 should be saluted for its endurance of the COVID-19 pandemic, which pretty much wrecked the high school careers of our seniors, who dealt with it for much of the last two academic years. Thankfully, we’re finally ...

Greater Altoona has been proactive in so many ways over the past 50 or so years. It has a thriving suburban business strip that no doubt is the envy of many communities. Downtown Altoona, which experienced the exodus of businesses in the 1960s and ’70s, like so many other cities, has ...

A Pennsylvania House of Representatives joint committee hearing last Monday was an excellent venue for delving into the issue of increased mental health resources being in place for students when schools across the state reopen fully. Judging from the progress on the coronavirus front, it is ...

The constitutional amendment questions aimed at stopping the runaway train that was Gov. Tom Wolf’s unilateral authority he granted himself during the COVID-19 pandemic passed decisively despite the governor’s underlings wording the questions in a prejudicial way in an effort to damage ...

Earlier this month, Tulsa, Okla., ended up making national headlines with the announcement that it would soon be the home of the Bob Dylan Center, a museum and research institute dedicated to the legendary singer-songwriter who will turn 80 today. Tulsa is bound to be in the national ...