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WASHINGTON (TNS) — When classified documents turned up in President Joe Biden’s former office, his Delaware home and the garage housing his Corvette, ...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — The recent audit that questioned school property tax hikes in Bethlehem, Northampton and other Pennsylvania communities should anger...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is all that is left of what was once the Republican establishment. Sure, there are still some GOP voters who ag...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — If you couldn’t perform all of your duties, would your boss still pay your full salary? We all know the answer. In the real world, y...

Corporations, unions, lobbyists and others who contribute to inaugural committees do so because it suits their interests. It’s also public business. P...

Pennsylvania’s founding fathers rightly established our government with the capacity to allow our constitution to change and evolve, while upholding t...

After a hiatus during the Trump years, Republicans are back in the mood for fiscal probity. It’s very strange not to seriously pursue a deeply held go...

State Sen. Greg Rothman’s push for municipal police radar in Pennsylvania has the same flaws now that he is in the state Senate as when he was in the ...

It’s an old aphorism that if you tax something, you get less of it. Seven states are at risk of finding out exactly how that truism applies to wealth ...

I have lived all over due to my husband’s construction jobs and am glad we came here to our little pocket of the world, Bradford, in 1969. Our winters...

BALTIMORE (TNS) — A treatment that improves Alzheimer’s disease would be a great advance, but Leqembi (lecanemab), which recently received accelerated...

Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in as a justice of the Supreme Court more than four years ago, on Oct. 6, 2018. His oath followed perhaps the ugliest Suprem...

Heard about the stash of classified documents that turned up in a desk drawer in a hotel room that President Joe Biden once occupied? Of course not. B...

Defense spending is vital to ensure the nation’s security. But that doesn’t mean the Pentagon should be above budget scrutiny. Far from it, as a recen...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — The political paralysis in our state Legislature is holding up several proposed government reform bills that would improve the accou...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis stands accused of a long parade of horribles to which has now been added a new count — allegedly opposing the teaching of Af...

With Democrat Josh Shapiro as a newly inaugurated governor and a new legislative body, Pennsylvania will either shine as an energy superstar or contin...

It’s time for the grown-ups to rise to the occasion. Past time, really, but now will suffice. With both houses of Congress finally set to get to work,...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy plans to use the U.S. government’s potential default on its debt as the means to “negotiate” future spending. Future spen...

Pennsylvania is often ground zero for political battles and policy debates, with the purple makeup of our state serving as a bellwether for national s...