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Many conservative state legislators cheered Friday when the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion that an earlier court h...

In 1973, the United States Supreme Court found constitutional protection for a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion, her autonomous personhood ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — It has finally come. The day that many people, especially those who have been fighting for decades to defend the lives of th...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade leaves it up to states to determine the rules regarding abortion services a...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — It doesn’t seem like it now, with the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade reversal roiling the nation. But we may someday look back ...

If the Jan. 6 committee truly cares about protecting norms, the last thing it should want is for Attorney General Merrick Garland to indict Donald Tru...

Will a new formula redistribute state university money in a way that works? The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education’s governing board has un...

Have you been following the court case Biden v. Texas? It’s not in the headlines every day, but court filings in the case are giving us the best pictu...

Watching the massacre in Texas unfold in recent weeks, my thoughts immediately turned to Bradford. News coverage showed the hospital in Uvalde, a town...

Going for gold has taken on a different connotation since the Supreme Court ruled college athletes can be paid by parties not directly affiliated with...

After a Minneapolis police officer with a long history of disciplinary problems murdered George Floyd in May 2020, state and local governments around ...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — As Pennsylvania’s population grays, nursing home owners should be rubbing their hands together in anticipation of an increasing stre...

When President Joe Biden says something isn’t inevitable, it is time to count on it as a deadlock guarantee. The president’s handling of events has be...

Republican state Rep. Natalie Mihalek’s proposed constitutional amendment to get Pennsylvania out of the booze business is simplicity itself: “The Com...

On June 17, Americans found ourselves at the convergence of two crises of shattering assaults on our democracy. They were crises of crimes and cover-u...

State legislators addicted to easy money long ago rolled over for casino operators who claimed that they couldn’t make money, and provide the state go...

Conservatives who want an economic policy that supports parents have long been a minority faction within the Republican Party. In 2017, when Republica...

After reading Gene Lyons’ “Hey MAGA Folks, Can You Define ‘Great’?” I offer a few rebuttal comments. I just finished reading “Call Sign Chaos” by reti...

Given the state’s political structure, it’s natural to think of the Legislature in terms of the major political parties. But that’s just part of the s...

A few days ago, on his way home from work, my husband helped push a stranger’s car into a gasoline stall. The driver had run out of gas just as she wa...