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...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jul 07, 2025
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Fluoride is under fire nationally, driven in part by concerns from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In March, Utah became the...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jul 03, 2025
A weekly allowance or a lemonade stand are great ways to teach young kids how to manage their money. A loan from the Small Business Administration is ...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jul 03, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — The political realignment has come for economics. At least since the days of Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes in the last cent...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jul 03, 2025
Presidential elections present voters with a mix of triumphs, scandals and defining moments. The 2024 election was no exception. From Donald Trump’s n...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jul 02, 2025
As a military aviator and veteran of more contingencies than I care to remember, I watched with bated breath and prayers in my heart on the evening of...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jul 02, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — It’s not always obvious which of the multitude of species of bacteria riding around in us should be classified as germs and attacked,...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jul 01, 2025
State and local governments spent an estimated $770 million in 2023 to incarcerate immigrants who had been in the country for less than three years, a...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jul 01, 2025
Every Philosophy 101 student knows the dilemma. If given the chance to kill Adolf Hitler years before his tyrannical ambitions unleashed death and des...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jul 01, 2025
My recent visit to the civic religious shrines and historical museums in Philadelphia highlights the threat executive power poses to democracy. In 177...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 30, 2025
As President Donald Trump and Congress fumble through his One Big Beautiful Bill on the budget for fiscal year 2025-26, they have been ignoring the ma...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 30, 2025
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — I’m a finance professor at UCLA, so let’s talk finance. Which numbers are more meaningful to you? Having $50 to $100 cash in your ...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 30, 2025
It’s rare these days to find a proposal out of Washington that checks every box: common sense, bipartisan and pro-worker. That is exactly what Pennsyl...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 27, 2025
In Minnesota, a deranged gunman broke into a legislator’s house and shot her and her husband, killing both of them. He also killed their dog. The alle...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 27, 2025
Los Angeles has dominated the news cycle as residents protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s efforts to deport illegal immigrants, but the...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 27, 2025
I have Thanksgiving dinner every year with only teachers. My mother, father, sister, brother-in-law, aunt, cousin and my grandmother, along with all m...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 27, 2025
Gov. Josh Shapiro once said, “Leaders have a responsibility to speak truth.” Yet, truth be told, the governor’s lack of leadership on this year’s stat...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 26, 2025
Critics have lambasted President Donald Trump’s tough-love approach to Europe, but the president secured a major victory this week when NATO members a...
Business, Local News
August 20, 2025
The Bradford Regional Medical Center (BRMC) School of Radiography held its graduation ceremony Tuesday at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford. Je...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
August 20, 2025
Donald Trump’s diplomatic efforts to stop the Ukraine conflict remain fluid, the details murky. But the fact that the president has in the span of onl...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
August 20, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — If President Donald Trump were to issue an executive order to abolish mail-in voting, as he announced he would on social media on Mon...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
August 20, 2025
Policymakers and special interests in Harrisburg are discussing policy changes that would undermine Pennsylvania’s competitive power market by allowin...
Local News, PA State News
August 20, 2025
HARRISBURG— Treasurer Stacy Garrity announced the fourth consecutive fee waiver for families who save with the PA 529 Guaranteed Savings Plan (GSP). T...
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...
