Comment & Opinion

NEW YORK (TNS) — President Donald Trump has always been just insider-enough to placate the Republican establishment and just outsider-enough to excite...

DEAR RUSTY: I’m trying to figure out if I should change my IRS filing status to “Married – Filing Jointly” prior to getting reviewed for my Medicare P...

President Donald Trump is clearly frustrated that his economic agenda isn’t resonating with Americans. According to polling aggregation by RealClearPo...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — In almost every election cycle, politicians toot their own horn when it comes to rising wages, pointing to higher paychecks as proo...

Pennsylvanians are frustrated by rising electricity bills, and rightfully so. In a letter sent just this week, Gov. Josh Shapiro pointed to PJM, the r...

Democrats see an opportunity to hammer Republicans and the White House on “affordability,” counting on voters to forget that inflation soared to 9% in...

Losing the competition with China is not an option — but it could become a reality without greater investment in America, the American people and our ...

In the four decades since James Cameron introduced the world to a cybernetic assassin sent from a dystopian future, new RealClearPennsylvania/Emerson ...

The key adjective in the phrase “affordable housing” is “affordable” — as in, cost efficiency should be the guiding design principle. Democratic Sens....

NEW YORK (TNS) — There are two big worries when it comes to the rapid advances in artificial intelligence. The first is that it will lead to robot ove...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Artificial intelligence and data centers are the hottest investment topics at the moment, reminiscent of the Amazon headquarters sw...

Nuclear power production in Pennsylvania has essentially been relegated to an afterthought for quite some time, but now, lawmakers are realizing this ...

While many of us are asleep, families huddle on the street, watching firefighters douse the flames consuming their home. At the same time, local Red C...

President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency — famously helmed by Elon Musk — has been decentralized, its functions transferred to the...

Electric bicycles, or e-bikes, have rapidly become a fixture on streets, sidewalks and trails, valued for their utility, accessibility and environment...

When I think of the word neighborhood, my mind drifts back to the worlds of Sesame Street and Mister Rogers — places where people knew each other’s na...

As Ronald Reagan famously noted, if you subsidize something, you’ll get more of it. But when it comes to higher education, that’s only half the story....

Taxpayers have spent $3.5 million since 2019 to lease cars for members of Congress and their staffers while also paying them up to $131,000 each for g...

We recently got word that consumer confidence is plumbing new depths, and in fact the numbers have long been stuck at a level of despondency that usua...

Warehouses have been growing tremendously over the past decade in Pennsylvania. In our recent report conducted with support from the Center for Rural ...