Medicare Advantage is an option for seniors to get Medicare coverage through a private health insurance provider. More than 900,000 Pennsylvania seniors rely on Medicare Advantage for their health care coverage. Medicare Advantage is popular with seniors because many plans provide additional services that are not available under traditional Medicare. For instance, many seniors in Medicare Advantage take advantage of ...

The Beaver Countian supports efforts by the Beaver County Times and the Pittsburgh Tribune Review to unseal transcripts of arguments presented in court as part of a Habeas Corpus hearing held at the beheast of Sheriff George David. Monday’s hearing saw Mercer County Senior Judge Francis J. Fornelli dismiss one count of intimidation of a witness against David pertaining to ...

Getting things done on time is important. It is a value we teach our kids. Prior to joining the House of Representatives in 2013, I worked in the private sector negotiating contracts. If a client had to have something done by a certain date, it had to be done. Deadlines mattered. We all have to pay our mortgages or rent, ...

As I returned to Washington, D.C. last week, two of the major stories in the national news were the record-breaking cold and the expiration of long-term Unemployment Insurance benefits beyond twenty-six weeks. Let me begin by saying I am open to an extension of unemployment benefits that is paid for and coupled with reforms. I am troubled that the conversation ...

What could you buy with one trillion dollars? The Christmas Index, published annually by Pittsburgh’s own PNC Bank, tracks the cost of items and services given as presents in the Twelve Days of Christmas carol. According to the Index, you could buy every single resident of Pennsylvania’s Twelfth District partridges in a pear tree, geese-a-laying, drummers drumming, and the rest ...

Homeownership is a big part of the American dream. Moving from paying rent to owning a home is an investment in the future for a family and its community. Unfortunately, that dream is threatened for many by an obscure regulation known as the Qualified Mortgage rule written by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). It is a Washington-knows-best approach to ...

Articles published by the Beaver Countian reached a record 55,000 individual people last week. Our current number of followers on FaceBook is approaching 14,000. Existing only in the world of bits and bytes, we rely on social media, like Facebook and Twitter, for distribution. Concentrating on investigative reporting, our numbers give us strength — The reach of our message makes ...