Hopefully, this country has witnessed its last assassination attempt on a political leader or officeholder although, judging from the mood of the United States now and possibly well into the future, that might be too much wishful thinking for which to feel confident and ...

Mirror readers, as well as other Pennsylvania residents who have access to reporting by the news organization Spotlight PA, were recipients of an extremely troubling report last weekend about lagging senior abuse investigations in this state. “Unconscionable” is too mild of a description ...

Even if no significant or immediate public services changes result, an apparently upcoming state-supported “capacity study” focusing in large part on Blair County emergency services’ manpower shortages could provide guidance beneficial for the long term. Blair officials should ...

The National Transportation Safety Board’s allegation that Norfolk Southern repeatedly tried to interfere with the investigation of the Feb. 3, 2023, Norfolk derailment on the outskirts of East Palestine, Ohio, near Ohio’s border with Pennsylvania, is the latest development in the rail ...

On this Independence Day, America’s politicians on both sides of the political aisle ought to be thinking more about this country as a whole — what is best for this wonderful free land — than mostly about their party, their party’s agenda or the friction they might harbor and encourage ...

Unfunded mandates, products of the federal and state governments, do not sit well with local-level units of government. Neither do those mandates sit well with school districts and institutions of higher learning, especially as they are trying to prepare and balance new budget ...