Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 05, 2025
Imagine turning on your TV or radio and finding silence where “Sesame Street,” local news, and emergency alerts used to be. No more “Our Town” stories...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 05, 2025
In a previous RealClearPA essay, I examined the first 200 years of voting in Pennsylvania and the alternating efforts to democratize the electorate an...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 04, 2025
The latest cease-fire proposal that seeks to stop the fighting between Israel and Hamas is in jeopardy. The reason shouldn’t be a surprise: The terror...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 04, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — With Robert F. Kennedy’s Make Children Healthy Again report under attack for questionable science, imaginary research and other “fo...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 04, 2025
Even in an off-year primary, Pennsylvania continues to garner the attention of politicians and analysts hoping to understand the state’s political puz...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 03, 2025
Once again, this time in Boulder, Colorado, a terrorist self-draped in the Palestinian cause has taken to violence. Whatever one believes, violence fo...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 03, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — There’s one area of surprising agreement in the often adversarial relationship between conservatives and the scientific community: th...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 03, 2025
Pennsylvania is one of a handful of states that elect all their judges in partisan races. New Jersey, for example, appoints all its judges: local, cou...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 02, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — It pains me to say this, as both an economist and a graduate of Columbia, but: It may be time to break up not only Columbia but also ...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 02, 2025
President Donald Trump described the $400 million jet Qatar’s government gave to the U.S. as a “gift, free of charge” on Truth Social. The plane may b...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 02, 2025
In their upside down, Alice-in-Wonderland version of reality, the left has a point when they cast George Orwell as a prophet of our times. Our world i...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
May 30, 2025
Does day-to-day news distract us from the things that really matter to our daily lives? Have we lost focus? Is this what President Trump hopes will ha...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
May 30, 2025
Two studies released this week conclude that billions in state handouts for the film industry won’t generate enough revenue to cover the taxpayer cost...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
May 30, 2025
Whether it’s gas or “green,” most Pennsylvanians just want affordable electricity. This according to a new statewide poll from Public Opinion Strategi...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
May 30, 2025
I want Josh Shapiro to succeed. As a centrist Pennsylvanian who voted for him over woefully out-of-his-depth Doug Mastriano back in 2022, I see a gove...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
May 29, 2025
Remember sitting outside under a tree on a hot summer day, listening to the chirping of the bugs and songs of the birds while a light breeze ruffled t...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
May 29, 2025
Over the weekend, businessman Elon Musk expressed his disappointment with the Trump-backed domestic policy bill narrowly approved by the House of Repr...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
May 29, 2025
President Donald Trump is often in the headlines for the millions of dollars taxpayers spend to fund his golf trips, but he’s far from the only one en...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
May 29, 2025
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — He was not a philosopher MAGA would read, but he was also not a philosopher mainstream liberals would read. And not just because th...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion, Outdoors, ...
May 29, 2025
I walked by Jane’s photo and stopped, captivated by those green, slightly mocking eyes smiling out at me. Unbidden memories surged to the surface and ...
PA State News
June 14, 2025
PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...
Local News, Nation & World
June 14, 2025
Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
June 14, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...
Local Sports
June 14, 2025
BROCKWAY - The 10th Annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football game is slated for the end of the month, and several area players were recognized for t...
Local Sports, Sports
June 14, 2025
(TNS) —As golfers teed off during opening day of this year's 125th U.S. Open Championship, state officials inside of a tent overlooking the course's 1...
Local Sports
June 14, 2025
The annual Allegheny -100 Hiking Challenge (A-100) was held last weekend. It is an event where hikers can choose to hike 100, 75, 50 or 25 miles along...
