NEW YORK TIME Opinion: …First, as noted, fertility decline is associated nearly everywhere with greater rights and opportunities for women. The deferral of marriage and the reduction of births to two, one or none across so much of the world — and, again, in countries that are still far from rich — are broadly consistent with the higher educational attainment and career aspirations of young women. It is no surprise that the hand-wringers over fertility decline are usually men.

PITTSBURGH TIMES-TRIBUNE Editorial: Gov. Tom Corbett said last week that he is near his “breaking point” because federal regulators have not approved his plan to steer billions of public health care dollars through private insurers.

Two years ago the Lancaster Newspapers decided to jettison most reporting of state and national news and concentrate on local events and human interest stories. The Intelligencer Journal New Era became almost totally parochial.

To learn what can be done locally, we reached to Louise Brewer, Master Gardener, at the Master Gardener Help Desk, of the Penn State Cooperative Extension. lancaster.extension.psu.edu

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: … Russia is emerging as a big geopolitical player, and the European Union needs to realize that it has a resurgent rival on its east. Russia badly needs Europe as a partner, but Putin is positioning it as a rival. There are significant political forces within the Russian regime that are critical of Putin’s policy on that score…

About half of the states, including California and New York, have expanded Medicaid. In states where the expansion was in effect in February, enrollment increased by 8.3 percent, to a total of 35 million people. In states that have not expanded Medicaid, enrollment was up 1.6 percent…

A new national survey released today by the Pew Research Center provides strong evidence that Americans are undergoing a tectonic shift in their views on drug policy. Not only are Americans convinced that marijuana legalization is coming;

The hand-held device, called Evzio, delivers a single dose of naloxone, a medication that reverses the effects of an overdose, and will be used on those who have stopped breathing or lost consciousness from an opioid drug overdose.

THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: …Wolf’s family business – the Wolf Organization, a kitchen-cabinet design and distribution firm – has lost nearly half its value since the recession and the debt it took on in a leveraged buyout designed to pay a total of $60 million to Wolf and two of his cousins.

NEW YORK TIMES: …What is happening in Felcsut is part of the changes that have washed over Hungary since Mr. Orban and his Fidesz party swept to power in 2010. His government has rewritten the constitution and passed hundreds of laws, including a tax code that makes business investment in sports tax-deductible.

LEHIGH VALLEY MORNING CALL: For weeks, officials in the state Republican Party have said Bob Guzzardi has every right under the U.S. and state constitutions to challenge Gov. Tom Corbett in the May primary…

REUTERS: General Motors Co in 2005 decided not to change an ignition switch eventually linked to the deaths of at least 13 people because it would have added about a dollar to the cost of each car, according to an internal GM document provided to U.S. congressional investigators…

NEW YORK TIMES: The soldiers guarding the entrances to the surrounded Ukrainian military base here just south of the capital, Simferopol, had little in common with their predecessors from past Russian military actions.