Comment & Opinion

COUDERSPORT — As temperatures drop and sniffles rise, many wonder: does cold weather make you sick? While chilly air itself doesn’t cause illness, it ...

This Armistice-Veterans Day, thought of those in my family who fought in World Wars I and II, as did many soldiers from our area of Pennsylvania. Our ...

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is pretty evenly divided, so why did voters send such a lopsided signal? In terms of voter registration, Pennsylvania...

Michigan’s plan to rely on a Chinese company to create American jobs is dead in the water. The state pulled out of an agreement to give Gotion, Inc., ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — By any metric, Tuesday’s elections were a blowout. Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani is the new mayor of New York City. The new D...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — The biggest win for Pennsylvania Democrats in Tuesday's election was a decisive victory for three liberal state Supreme Court jus...

H.L. Mencken wrote, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” Hello, New York City. On...

The election Tuesday of the charismatic socialist Zoran Mamdani as mayor of New York sucked up a lot of media oxygen. Most pundits and editors live th...

Taxpayers in Dauphin County spent $670,000 on an empty parking lot this summer, but Amiracle4sure, the nonprofit in charge, does not seem concerned ab...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Pennsylvania Republicans are taking stock of sweeping Democratic wins up and down the ballot Tuesday, including a pivotal state Sup...

While many areas of the country held elections Tuesday, Congress continued to shirk its main job: passing a budget for fiscal year 2026, which began o...

I’m a YouTube TV subscriber and a lifelong football fan, and right now I’m furious. In my house, fall weekends are sacred. I grew up in Kansas, where ...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Was it a blue wave? It depends whom you ask. But Democrats, desperate to gain during President Donald Trump's second administrati...

“My kid’s getting A’s at Harvard” isn’t much of a flex anymore, thanks to a report from the erstwhile Ivy League institution admitting that roughly 60...

A chorus of voices from across the political spectrum demands that members of Congress forfeit their pay during the current government shutdown, which...

Ten months into Donald Trump’s second term in office, his approval ratings are significantly lower than when his term began. Such declines are not unc...

If Pennsylvania held a vote for our state slogan, unfortunately, I’d have to nominate: “If you have low expectations, you’ll never be disappointed.” O...

Three years ago, Josh Shapiro delivered a decisive victory in his gubernatorial race against Doug Mastriano, a state Senator with a strong base of sup...

Starting Saturday, 2 million Pennsylvanians lost $366 million in monthly SNAP benefits. The federal government shutdown that began Oct. 1 means food s...

Schools have long declared themselves to be gun-free zones. It’s time to make them cellphone-free zones as well. In October, the National Bureau of Ec...