christmas-2019

COMMENTARY

The holidays remind us that grief cannot be wished away | Opinion

BY: - December 27, 2019

Want to help those who are grieving? Try developing a more nuanced understanding of the variability, adaptability, and unfolding nature of grief.

COMMENTARY

What to do about those modern Scrooges who don’t want to pay their fair share for public schools? | Opinion

BY: - December 25, 2019

Hearing from these anti-school tax folks is like getting a visit from the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future all at once.

A Capital-Star holiday: Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus

BY: - December 25, 2019

Because what are holidays, after all, without traditions? Here's a new one from your friends at the Pennsylvania Capital-Star.

COMMENTARY

A Capital-Star holiday tradition: The WPXI-TV Yule log

BY: - December 25, 2019

A holiday tradition continues to burn brightly -- with our best wishes for a peaceful and happy holiday season, and a wonderful New Year.

Watch Gov. Tom Wolf and LG John Fetterman read their mean Tweets

BY: - December 24, 2019

A little reminder that our politics could use a dose of levity every now and again. Gov. Tom Wolf and Lt. Gov. John Fetterman lighten the mood.

COMMENTARY

Yes, it’s a time of giving. But it needs to last throughout the year | Lloyd E. Sheaffer

BY: - December 20, 2019

Many of charitable institutions are worthy of support now and throughout the year. But they can't do it all alone, all of the time.

Watch 2 Pa. House Republicans play a piano duet of ‘O Holy Night’ in the Capitol rotunda

BY: - December 19, 2019

After a long and very partisan week, a reminder of some of the stuff that brings us together.