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NEW YORK (TNS) — There’s an economic calamity approaching: At the end of September, pandemic-era federal funding for child care will expire, potential...

Gov. Josh Shapiro is taking heat for Pennsylvania’s still-unfinished budget, with critics saying it’s “already in the red.” The Commonwealth Foundatio...

The public intellectual Irving Kristol famously said that the definition of a neoconservative is “a liberal who has been mugged by reality.” By the sa...

HARRISBURG — Health care access in rural Pennsylvania becomes less tenable day by day, and many fear what this means for the state’s efforts to revive...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — My colleague Nicole Russell recently wrote that Republicans turned hard-core MAGA Trump voters are to blame for the persiste...

Debates over unresolved elements of the state government’s new $44.45 billion budget — including more than $600 million for four state-affiliated univ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — With Congress on its summer recess, we’ve gotten a bit of a break from Republicans’ ad nauseam complaints that Donald Trump is a vi...

The Sino-U.S. “cold tech war” is reaching new heights — or rather depths — as tensions are building under the sea. First it was semiconductors. Now it...

The scope of the opioid epidemic is so vast and so dynamic that it must be fought on multiple fronts — from international trafficking enforcement to l...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Five former leaders of the Pennsylvania corrections officers’ union have been charged with theft after investigators say they used u...

In February 2022, in the middle of the legislative redistricting process, I stood at a press conference to unveil an amendment to what is now the map ...

Mike Pence, after about seven years of campaigning with Donald Trump, serving with Trump, and showing as much deference as could possibly be expected ...

Now is the time to get a divorce in Pennsylvania. Because of a failure of the state Legislature to pass legislation, a surcharge on court filings has ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Is the current rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations really the result of people moving indoors to enjoy air conditioning? Experts and jo...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Trust is always harder to build than to destroy, and that’s true for financial markets, too. The U.S. has borrowed tens of trillion...

Now that Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Robert Bowers has been sentenced to death, there’s no reason to further delay the administration of justice. The...

Running through the grass, damming up the stream for a make-shift swimming hole, catching crawdads or earthworms to try our hand at fishing at a nearb...

In higher education Pennsylvania ranks No. 1! ... well, at least in the amount of student debt that the state’s students carry. A recent analysis by t...

Decades of excessive spending, paid with debt, are hitting America’s credit rating. On Aug. 1 Fitch Ratings downgraded the United States federal gover...

It is sometimes said that the prosecutions of former President Donald Trump are “backfiring” on Democrats. That is, instead of lowering Trump’s politi...