Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jul 15, 2025
A law from 1935 that dictates how the Social Security trust fund invests its money could be causing the government to miss out on hundreds of billions...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jul 15, 2025
LANCASTER (TNS) — In the Pennsylvania Legislature, the more things change, the more they stay the same It's been 20 years since the Pennsylvania Legis...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jul 15, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — I have been a pension nerd since I was 20 years old. So I have been hearing for literally decades that there is a simple, magical sol...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jul 14, 2025
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Not since the days of Andrew Carnegie has there been as much economic power in one Pittsburgh room as there will be at Carnegie Mel...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jul 14, 2025
Bucks County Sheriff Fred Harran is running for re-election. He’s doing the job of the elected office: keeping residents safe. Progressives, though, a...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jul 11, 2025
During his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump was openly critical of President Barack Obama’s use of executive orders and vowed to vastly reduce...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jul 11, 2025
After years of becoming annoyed by what I see on television as well as watching the actions of so many “so-called” Americans, I felt inclined to write...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jul 11, 2025
The planned renovation of the Federal Reserve’s office buildings will cost $2.5 billion and include rooftop gardens, skylights, water displays and mor...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jul 11, 2025
ERIE — How do you go from 100% to dead? That is the tragic enigma which changed Jim Foote’s life. In 2004, Foote’s 15-year-old son, Trey, was diagnose...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jul 10, 2025
The General Services Administration plans to help federal agencies and local governments make $47 billion of purchases in 2026 using a data system tha...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jul 10, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Many so-called experts predicted that President Donald Trump’s economic agenda would usher in an inflationary Armageddon. This proj...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jul 10, 2025
Zohran Mamdani is having a moment. The 33-year-old Queens assemblyman is now the Democratic nominee for mayor of the country’s largest city. Leaving a...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jul 09, 2025
In a time of terrible natural disasters like the one Texas has just experienced, we rely on the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate aid ...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jul 09, 2025
HARRISBURG — On Monday, the House passed a resolution designating September as International Underground Railroad Month. It received near-unanimous su...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jul 09, 2025
I had the privilege of sharing in a special celebration recently. Absolut Care of Allegany, N.Y., was honoring my niece, Amelia Tallman, for 25 years ...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jul 09, 2025
With the retirement of Mt. Lebanon state representative and Minority Whip Dan Miller — he is running for Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas judge ...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jul 08, 2025
Hundreds of thousands of southern Italians made their way to the United States before World War I. But following that war, the Immigration Act of 1924...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jul 08, 2025
President Donald Trump has vowed not to cut Social Security benefits, and it’s easy to understand his position: Proposing even modest reforms to the e...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jul 08, 2025
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision in the birthright citizenship case, Trump v. CASA, Inc., but only on the issue of wh...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jul 07, 2025
Thirtysomething state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani's triumph over aging dynast Andrew Cuomo in New York's Democratic mayoral primary should have Pennsyl...
Business, Local News, PA State News
August 20, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Wait times for unemployment calls in Pennsylvania have dropped to an average of nine minutes – the shortest in six years – the stat...
Local News, PA State News
August 20, 2025
HARRISBURG — A new solution for Pennsylvania’s perennial struggle over education funding began circulating in the Legislature on Wednesday. This time,...
Business, Local News
August 20, 2025
Two local oil purchasers have decreased the price they will pay for Penn grade crude oil. Effective Tuesday, American Refining Group and Ergon Oil Pur...
Lifestyles
August 20, 2025
Dear Heloise: When I shop for groceries, I have no memory or imagination, and I will invariably lose my shopping list somewhere along the way. It's a ...
Lifestyles
August 20, 2025
DEAR ABBY: My sister-in-law is her alcoholic husband's enabler. He has health conditions that make walking difficult. He falls down often and can't ma...
