Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 06, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — There is no constituency for debt reduction, which is a fancy way of saying voters don’t care that the federal balance sheet is rough...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 06, 2025
It seems it was bound to happen. The White House is nowhere big enough to accommodate the egos of President Trump and Elon Musk. Their fallout happene...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 05, 2025
President Donald Trump spoke to Russia’s Vladimir Putin for more than an hour on Wednesday about Ukraine. But results remain elusive. “It was a good c...
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...
National Sports
August 20, 2025
(TNS) — There's a hot ticket next weekend at PNC Park. It's not the Pirates (who are in the basement of the NL Central). That weekend, they are on the...
Local Sports
August 20, 2025
After losing two four-year lettermen to graduation and having another two-year letterwinner not returning, the Owls are faced with a rebuilding year a...
Local Sports
August 20, 2025
Boys Golf St. Marys 159, Ridgway 176 The Saint Marys Dutchmen golf team improved to 3-1 with a win over the visiting Ridgway Elkers in a match played ...
Local News
Sunflower Festival returns to Kane
August 20, 2025
KANE – Get ready to soak up the “sonshine” at the Second annual Sunflower Festival, happening Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Wilds Sonshine Factory, 3...
Local News
August 20, 2025
It's not just students and teachers gearing up for back-to-school, there are all kinds of germs and bugs just waiting to be passed around. Nicholas Cu...
Crime, Local News
August 20, 2025
A Bradford man is in McKean County Jail for allegedly strangling two women during confrontations Aug. 17. Montana Moore, 27, of 14 Cherry St., is char...
