Rome News

Bret Michaels tweeted his thoughts about the passing of Whitney Houston today. Michaels grew up in Butler, Pennsylvania and started his music career with his band Paris touring the central PA bar scene.

THE first-century Roman poet Ovid defined chaos as "a rude and undeveloped mass that nothing made except a ponderous weight." First, the "undeveloped mass" that is our Legislature screws up one of its few constitutional duties, a once-a-decade redraw of boundaries for House and Senate seats, by coming up with an 11th-hour, laughably gerrymandered ... (more)

Hazardous black ice covered streets in Rome yesterday as snowed-in residents warned of food shortages and the national rail operator faced class actions after hundreds of people were trapped in trains.

Yes, Western, Southern, Central and Eastern Europe have hijacked winter from most of the USA, proving once again that weather is cyclical - and not the result of Man.

Thick snowflakes fell on Rome on Friday, forcing the closure of the Colosseum over fears tourists would slip on the icy ruins, and leaving buses struggling to climb the city's slushy hills.

Groundhog Day, February 2nd , is a day to celebrate. It will either mean six more weeks of winter or an early spring.

John Conti is a former news reporter who has written extensively about architecture, planning and historic preservation issues.

First, a new translation of the Mass was introduced at the beginning of Advent. Then, on New Year's Day, the Anglican Ordinariate for the United States was officially launched.