Opinion

America needs more reliable power
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jan 30, 2026
It doesn’t take artificial intelligence to deduce why so many power plants have shut down recently. Across the country, rising electricity prices are ...
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Pa. falling behind on hospital care
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By NICOLE STALLINGS, RAN STRUL and IGOR BELOKRINITSKY RealClearPennsylvania 
Jan 30, 2026
Health care access has put Pennsylvania into the national spotlight over the past few years — but for all the wrong reasons. Last fall, a national hea...
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Other Voices: Respect federal law
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jan 29, 2026
Retired Judge John Cleland’s recent letter to the editor claims President Trump is “criminally prosecuting and politically threatening” government off...
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US-funded groups don’t have to report fraud
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jan 29, 2026
The State Department did not have consistent oversight requirements for $5.7 billion it contributed to the United Nations and other international orga...
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Clintons arrogantly ignore subpoena
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jan 29, 2026
It should come as little surprise that Bill and Hillary Clinton have defied subpoenas to testify in the U.S. House probe of Jeffrey Epstein. But the f...
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How to improve Pa.’s workforce
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jan 29, 2026
In recent years, workforce development has figured as a major topic in Pennsylvania. Students who used to focus on going to college are looking at dif...
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Why Fetterman won’t shut the government down over ICE
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By FALLON ROTH  The Philadelphia Inquirer 
Jan 29, 2026
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Sen. John Fetterman hates government shutdowns. The Pennsylvania Democrat has never backed a lapse in government funding since he...
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Go ahead and resent boomers — but for the right reasons
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By ALLISON SCHRAGER Bloomberg Opinion 
Jan 29, 2026
NEW YORK (TNS) — There is a natural human tendency to assume that your generation has it harder than everyone else. Even by those standards, however, ...
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Will Shapiro’s Pa. success translate at national level?
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By JOHN HINSHAW RealClearPolitics 
Jan 28, 2026
Gov. Josh Shapiro clearly wants to be president. Like most political memoirs, his says as much what he thinks about the path ahead as an accurate rend...
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Nation reels from second ICE shooting
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jan 27, 2026
Enough is enough. With two people now dead in Minneapolis, it’s time for everyone involved to do what’s necessary to defuse the tension and to avoid f...
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Pa.’s SNAP numbers falling — debate is just beginning
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By ATHAN KOUTSIOUROUMBAS RealClearPennsylvania 
Jan 27, 2026
Did it actually work? It is what we hope most policymakers ask themselves after a piece of legislation is passed. In the case of work requirements for...
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The greater discussion on immigration and ICE
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By KENIN M. SPIVAK RealClearPolitics 
Jan 26, 2026
Most of the recent vitriolic opposition to ICE is a feint by unrepentant open-borders progressives. They won the first round when Joe Biden was electe...
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What the Grateful Dead can show a fractured America
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By J. PEDER ZANE RealClearPolitics 
Jan 23, 2026
After the last key member of the Grateful Dead, guitarist Bob Weir, died last week at the age of 78, the cascade of loving tributes published far and ...
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