Last month’s primary election was a record setter and not just for the amount of money spent in the campaigns for governor or the U.S. Senate. Pennsylvania voters appear to have been energized. That’s according to reporting by the Philadelphia Inquirer t

June 1972 will long be remembered for one event in Pennsylvania -- flooding caused by Tropical Storm Agnes. It was one of those "I remember where I was and what I was doing" life-changing events. During this week 50 years ago, Agnes drenched Central Penn

The word populist has made a comeback in American politics since the election of Donald Trump in 2016. Trump ran and won the presidency by appealing to ordinary people who feel their concerns are disregarded by elite groups – the very definition of populi

Book Week continues on Wednesday's Smart Talk. America is a polarized country on political and cultural issues. There have been times in the past when Americans have been divided but one of the unique characteristics of the time we live in is that there

Book week continues on Tuesday’s Smart Talk and features a conversation with two bestselling novelists – Adriana Trigiani and John Searles. Both appeared last month at the Council of Friends of Lancaster County’s Public Libraries fundraising event. Trigi

It's Book Week on Smart Talk. All our programs through Thursday will focus on books—mostly talking with authors of new books. Best-selling novelists Adriana Trigiani and John Searles, world champion debater Bo Seo and Historian David Brown are among the

Juneteenth will be celebrated across the country a week from Sunday on June 19th. It marks the day when all enslaved people were free in the United States. The State Museum of Pennsylvania opens a Civil Rights Movement exhibition on Friday, June 17 that

June is Pride Month to honor the 1969 Stonewall riots that marked the beginning of the fight for LGBTQ rights and works to achieve equal justice and equal opportunity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) Americans. That involve

The historic Lebanon Cemetery or Mt. Vernon Cemetery, west of Chambersburg, is the cemetery where many African-Americans from Franklin County were buried after the Civil War. It is the final resting place for more than 25 Black soldiers who fought in the

The aftermath of the mass shootings in Buffalo, Uvalde Texas, Philadelphia and other places around the country the last two weeks have followed a familiar pattern. Shock, outrage, calls for expansion of mental health resources and, of course, new gun laws