The Most Taxing Time of the Year

How does tax season make you feel? Angry? Tired? Probably both, but there's a good chance you also felt a bit confused while preparing your returns. And who could blame you? The mind-numbing complexity of the Tax Code, with its myriad deductions, credits and exemptions, can baffle anyone.

Arkansas’ rush to wholesale executions: Our view

Arkansas' rush to wholesale executions: Our view Despite 11th-hour rulings, double executions are slated for both this week and next. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2pzeatV The beat-the-clock spectacle unfolding in Arkansas, triggered by the state's unprecedented scheme to carry out wholesale executions before the shelf life of a lethal injection drug expires, demonstrates more than ever how the death penalty in America is becoming less and less workable.

When you swallow sewage at the Shore, thank Trump | Editorial

While we spend zillions on security at Mar-a-Lago and shuttling Trump children around the world and leaving Melania's son in private school in Manhattan, the President is cutting money to check if we're all swimming in fecal swamps. Yes, his budget would eliminate the funding that pays to test the water at our beaches every week for nasty bacteria.

National View: Ted Koppel – Don’t underestimate the cyberthreat from Syria and North Korea

As the Trump administration confronts the nuclear ambitions of North Korea's Kim Jong Un and the toxic fallout from Bashar Assad's chemical warfare against Syrian civilians, it is worth remembering that both dictators also command cyber-units. On the face of it, their impact is significantly less lethal, and they can easily be underestimated.

Here’s how the race to replace Rep. Tom Marino could be a referendum on Donald Trump: Tony May

When some two dozen concerned citizens in Williamsport held a "town meeting in absentia" for U.S. Rep. Tom Marino, R-10th District, last week to highlight the lawmaker's low profile in the sprawling district, they found out that he might never meet face-to-face with his constituents again. The former district attorney and federal prosecutor is in line to become Donald Trump's national drug czar any day now.

David Sarasohn: The distance between educational aspirations and reality

The state's officially adopted target is 40 percent of its population having at least a four-year college degree, for another 40 percent having a two-year degree or a professional credential, and every Oregonian having at least a high school diploma. It's an ambitious goal, especially for a state with one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the country and which bumps along toward the bottom of higher education spending.

Possible Marino successors begin positioning

Tom Marino, incumbent candidate for 10th Congressional District, speaks during an interview with the Times Tribune editorial board Wednesday. Michael J. Mullen / Staff Photographer Don Sherwood, a Wyoming County resident, ended the streak in 1999, and the chances of Lackawanna starting a new streak remain slim.

Republicans in a funk: Washington Post opinion

In this April 1, 2017 file photo, Republican GOP congressional candidate in the 4th district Ron Estes votes with his wife Susan Estes at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kan. Republicans escaped a special House election in Kansas with a single-digit victory in a district where they have romped in the past, an early warning sign for the GOP at the start of Donald Trump's presidency.