Much can be — and has been — said of the importance of voting, especially in off-years where both major parties struggle to drive any kind of interest in their voters. While the “main show” years, if you will — being the presidential election and the midterms halfway between those ...

Much has been written about the impending suspension of SNAP, WIC and other benefits that the nation is collectively staring down — set to begin on Nov. 1, as of this writing. We aren’t going to assign blame. We could — but we don’t see that as beneficial. Blaming our various ...

For many of us, Halloween is a time of parties, scary movies and handing out candy to the trick-or-treaters that come wandering by our front stoops. It can also be a time of reflection — both on death and our relationship with it, as the Conversation piece also in today’s edition delves ...

Did you know that you can send in news or tips to The Express? We have a virtual newsroom, through which many people — of all stripes and persuasions — send us summaries and photos from local events. This helps us collect and provide more local content to our readers. Sometimes, we get ...

Our lives, it turns out, are not priceless, as we are generally led to believe. In fact, they are assigned a very real dollar value, which depends on a number of factors ranging from geographic location, to age, and so forth. Generally speaking, the value of a human life is considered to ...

As we entered our fourth month without a budget in Pennsylvania, the federal government also shut down. Jokes about taxation and representation aside, this is obviously flatly unacceptable. Our elected representatives are supposed to represent us — to put our needs, in this case a ...