Comment & Opinion

As the latest and longest government shutdown ends, Congress will be left to tally the costs and repair the damage. One thing to be thankful for: The ...

Since Donald J. Trump emerged improbably victorious in the 2024 presidential election, there has been an unprecedented reckoning in the mainstream med...

Even a federal shutdown can’t keep the national debt from continuing to spiral out of control. The nation’s debt now tops $38 trillion. It’s an unfath...

NEW YORK (TNS) — A friend once complained to me that people would sigh and roll their eyes when she used a credit card to pay for her $3 coffee. This ...

I didn’t realize how much I missed having a lot of light in my house until recently. Like a lot of folks who are (ahem) navigating the senior years, I...

There is likely no one who would buy a house 190 miles away from their workplace knowing they would have to commute back and forth. But for Brent Robe...

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...