Editorials

"What's really going on here is that over the last 20 years marijuana went from being used like alcohol to being used more like tobacco, in the sense ...

Journalists must walk a fine line every day — a fine line between what is newsworthy and what isn’t. That’s a struggle we all face when we hear white ...

Each year, the staff of The Era offers its thanks and provides insight into what enriches our lives as we come upon another Thanksgiving holiday. Of c...

WASHINGTON — "Look," wrote Lois Lerner, echoing Horace Greeley, "my view is that Lincoln was our worst president not our best. He should (have) let th...

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton is facing one of the most fateful decisions of the presidential primary season: what to say about the Trans-Pacific Partn...

When I talk to people about the state budget and the current stalemate, many of them voice frustration over what they see as a partisan political batt...

Voters may have turned Gov. Tom Corbett out of office last November, but his higher education funding legacy remains. The State System of Higher Educa...

The seven-nation agreement aimed at halting Iran’s progress toward a nuclear arsenal has been criticized as merely delaying the inevitable, but that i...

WASHINGTON — It’s far too early in the campaign season to bemoan the absence of serious policy proposals from the presidential candidates — but not to...

You may read about them in the newspaper or see them along local roads, plowing snow in the winter or patching potholes in the spring. They’re your to...

It’s no wonder why good people don’t run for elected office anymore. That’s the thought we were left with following what can only be described as a ci...

WASHINGTON — An abscess of anger seems to gnaw at Hillary Clinton, but the reasons for her resentments remain unclear. The world’s oldest party, which...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania’s highest ranking law enforcement official is waiting to hear how the state Supreme Court will rule on whether a county...

“In a few moments, when I sign this bill, all of the overheated rhetoric over reform will finally confront the reality of reform.” — President Obama, ...

One of the wonderful things about this region is how people rally together to help each other. In case anyone doesn’t know, a 24” water main ruptured ...

WASHINGTON — It took the Air Force to change — to radicalize, really — Maribel Jarzabek. Specifically, it took the Air Force lawyer serving in the new...

WASHINGTON — Senate confirmation hearings put nominees on notice that, as a Michigan state legislator reportedly once said, “I’m watching everything y...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Every year is an election year in Pennsylvania, but 2015 has a quality that’s likely to shake up the usually mundane judicial races:...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Organizers of Democratic Gov.-elect Tom Wolf’s inauguration say it will be comparable to those of other recent Pennsylvania governor...

WASHINGTON — The just-ending 113th Congress was not, by most measures, productive. But its endgame was at least instructive. As a trillion-dollar omni...