Comment & Opinion

When Pennsylvania families flip a switch or businesses start operations, they expect the lights to come on. Warning signs, including power plants requ...

In the bizarro world of American politics, Republicans who usually rail against tax increases and warn of executive overreach are silent as President ...

After reading the Sept. 26 edition of The Bradford Era I learned that local governments will have no say over energy projects if Gov. Josh Shapiro get...

In September, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it would no longer conduct its annual Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement (C...

What makes you nostalgic? Now it’s true, nostalgia can be a downer for some. It can be a longing for long-gone moments you’ll never get back — and mak...

There were at least 235,502 retirees across the country who collected a public pension of $100,000 or more in 2024 — costing taxpayers $30.6 billion —...

Nine years ago, progressives wanted James Comey strung up in the public square. Today, he’s their cause celebre. How times change. In 2016, Democrats ...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Partisan gridlock hasn't just held up Pennsylvania's budget for a humiliating and damaging three months: It has also kept popular, ...

It was with great sadness I noted the passing of Joe Vecellio last week at age 84.I hadn't seen him in years, but it was my privilege to have worked w...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy set the tone back in April when he announced the Trump administration’s plan to find the cause of ...

Over the course of the past month, the RealClearPolitics Institute of News & Information (RCPINI) has engaged in a lengthy, in-depth study of Western ...

History often appears inevitable. Of course, the colonies won the American Revolution. Of course, slavery was abolished. Of course, the Berlin Wall ca...

ERIE – Domestic shale production in the Atlantic Basin may offer the easiest path toward protecting the nation’s energy supply and resisting reliance ...

Keeping track of President Donald Trump’s various diplomatic maneuvers can be challenging, to say the least. His latest ruminations on Ukraine represe...

Electric bills may be the pivotal issue of Pennsylvania’s 2026 midterms. Don’t believe me? Just look eastward in New Jersey. A near majority of digita...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — In a seventh season episode of "Frasier," Frasier and his family pile into a Winnebago to attend a New Year's Eve bash in Idaho. At...

Pennsylvania needs more broadband. Connecting underserved communities to affordable, high-speed internet will help rural communities prosper. Unfortun...

In fiscal year 2024, the U.S. sold a record $118 billion in military supplies and services to foreign allies, but Congress has no way of knowing if al...

NEW YORK (TNS) — The recent announcement that scientists have spotted what they believe to be evidence suggesting ancient life on Mars seemed like the...

LANCASTER (TNS) — Despite state lawmakers' insistence "a few weeks ago that a budget deal was as near as a few days away," the Pennsylvania Senate and...