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HARRISBURG — The pandemic-era fiscal Band-Aid keeping Pennsylvania’s checkbook balanced has all but fallen off. The Pew Research Center said earlier t...

It’s an election year, so every economic report is going to be filtered through the lens of political benefit. President Biden thus celebrated the lat...

Katie Walsh owns and operates two businesses: a tattoo parlor and a spa. If she could, Walsh would merge her two businesses. Pennsylvania’s onerous re...

At this stage of things, most of the developments in the criminal cases against former President Trump involve this appeal or that appeal, or this hea...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — More than half the nation’s Republicans see Donald Trump as a “person of faith,” meaning some kind of serious Christian, which stri...

Anyone following how weak and passive the U.S. has been in the face of provocations from our adversaries in the Middle East might conclude that the se...

In an already astonishing year for advancing educational freedom, Pennsylvania closed out their legislative calendar by passing the largest expansion ...

The shroud is coming off elite academia and America is not pleased with what it’s seeing. Its leaders have told us that genocidal antisemitism is too ...

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, in looking back on 2023, talked about "progress" and "good paying jobs" in an article in the Dec. 30 edition of The Era. He and P...

When he decided not to run for a third term as president, George Washington wrote a farewell to the nation warning Americans of the dangers of politic...

January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month and although it would be easier to ignore it, human trafficking is very real and close to home. Your tele...

It’s easy sometimes to forget how fortunate we are to have such dedicated service organizations in our community. High among them is Futures Rehabilit...

The Veterans Health Administration gave energy vendors $68 million in prepayments that didn’t comply with federal law, a new audit found. The prepayme...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — This year’s presidential election campaign is likely to be remembered as a year in which voters pondered a rematch no one really wa...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — I was as competitive then as I am now. I’d fling myself across the basement to save a point. I’d throw a fit if I pocketed the 8-ba...

With critical elections coming in 2024, it’s time to talk about a pressing issue in several states: a lack of poll workers. Prior to 2020, many took p...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — It’s a new year but the same old mess in Congress. Instead of a fresh start, lawmakers return next week to their stale, dead-end ar...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — As the fighting in Ukraine continues, some representatives in Congress, primarily Republicans, oppose additional financial and mili...

Of the $325 billion given to states and local governments to help cover costs stemming from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, less than half of th...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — If The Washington Post treated itself the way it treats conservatives, it would call itself the “liberal Washington Post.” The news...