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Two articles in The Bradford Era by Marcie Schellhammer caught my attention and motivated this letter. The articles, “Draft final assessment of low-fl...

Since mind reading has only existed in the realms of fantasy and fiction, it seems fair to apply the phrase to a system that uses brain scan data to d...

There’s a long complicated history behind our country’s dependence on the two-party system. Generally speaking, it comes down to the fact that the ele...

ABC News did a wide-ranging interview with Robert Kennedy Jr. the other day. The ABC reporter asked him a number of challenging questions, notably abo...

My wife and I moved from Philadelphia to the western suburbs of Chester County for many reasons. The move offered us the best of all worlds. We would ...

Nearly every headline about the expected surge in migrants mentions something called Title 42 — and with good reason. On May 11, this U.S. law expires...

Many state legislators around the country somehow have concluded that cross-dressing is a major issue regarding school governance. But in Pennsylvania...

Reading too much into any single election, especially low-turnout primaries, can be futile. Still, two upcoming primaries and a special election have ...

The 15th Congressional District of Pennsylvania is one of the poorest districts in the United States. Thirty percent of the households in the district...

During National Nurses Week, May 6-12, I want to recognize and thank the more than 1,500 nurses I represent at UPMC in north central Pennsylvania, as ...

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives has done something that seems like a throwback to a quaint time we can barely remember. It did its job. More...

Perhaps the surest sign that electric vehicles are here to stay is that state legislatures have begun to devise new tax structures to ensure that driv...

A significant debate is starting this legislative session in Harrisburg over a long-standing and misrepresented issue facing Pennsylvania in its role ...

The long era of the dominance of the SAT in college admissions is coming to an end. The test is increasingly being shelved not because it failed but b...

Barack Obama once said that “elections have consequences.” President Joe Biden would be wise to recognize the wisdom of his old boss’s observation. De...

In Pennsylvania, divides over public education remain constant. The debates range from school funding disputes to curriculum fights, from arguments ov...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Now that the presidential campaign is underway, that low moan you hear is the sound of voters contemplating their likely fate: a ch...

President Joe Biden’s border policy is so bad that even some prominent Democratic officials are roasting him. New York City Mayor Eric Adams is far fr...

Five Democratic legislators in Pennsylvania have proposed changing the state income tax to make it less regressive. However, it has scant chance of pa...

A principal feature of congressional Republicans’ deficit policy is a proposal to reduce social safety net costs by requiring work in exchange for ben...