04.30.12 |
As they enter the classroom that serves as the newsroom for Lower Dauphin High School’s student newspaper, The Falcon Flash, each student grabs a laptop from a cart. The school allows students to use their electronic devices in the classrooms. ...
04.30.12 |
There’s a secret tucked in the rolling green hills east of Middletown, in the farmland outside Carlisle and throughout the rural areas that still comprise most of the midstate. You’re helping to pay for the police protection that residents who ...
04.30.12 |
Rick Allen moved to upstate New York to escape the rat race and tension of Washington, D.C., but when he arrived in his hometown, the 49-year-old electronics technician couldn't find a job.
04.30.12 |
Most school districts in New York have complied with new state-imposed taxing limits in the budgets they'll put before voters next month.
04.27.12 |
Under pressure from farming advocates in rural communities, the Obama administration withdrew a proposed rule Thursday that would have applied child labor laws to family farms.
04.27.12 |
It is either the end of an era for local minor league baseball in our area or the beginning of a whole new one. On Thursday Lackawanna County officials ended their more than 20-year ownership of the Triple-A franchise that has been playing in the ...
04.27.12 |
State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is asking a state regulator to take action against Verizon New York over mounting complaints of poor repair service for land-based telephone service that serves millions of New Yorkers.
04.27.12 |
There are nearly a hundred towns across upstate New York that have banned hydraulic fracturing, the process used in extracting natural gas from the Marcellus Shale. On Thursday, the head of the D.E.C. signaled he may allow each town to decide for ...
04.26.12 |
Pennsylvanians voted with their feet in Tuesday’s primary. The silence of their shuffle was deafening.
04.26.12 |
The problem of birds living near some of the nation's busiest airports is coming under renewed scrutiny after two emergency landings in a week and more than three years after the famous ditching of a jetliner in the Hudson River.
