Breaking News, Crime, Local News
June 7, 2025
Police are investigating an apparent shooting Saturday afternoon in the City of Bradford. City of Bradford Police, Bradford Township Police, McKean Co...
Editorials
May 15, 2014
Two-thirds of students in the United States leave college with a crushing load of debt. This national debt total is now $1.2 trillion. It’s not only d...
Editorials
May 15, 2014
It’s no secret that, in recent years, the value proposition of higher education has come into question. As tuition prices continue to soar — and colle...
Editorials, Opinion
May 14, 2014
President Obama visited a Walmart in Silicon Valley on Friday, where he announced that several hundred companies have committed to ramp up their use o...
Editorials, Opinion
May 14, 2014
Political pressure to bring home the bacon has, perhaps more than anything else, led to runaway federal spending and a debt so big the average mind ca...
Editorials
May 13, 2014
The Service Employees International Union is certainly no stranger to playing political hardball. But its recent efforts to use the initiative process...
Editorials, Opinion
May 12, 2014
The wheels of justice have nothing on property tax reform and education funding in this state. Both grind away at a snail’s pace. In the meantime, sen...
Editorials, Opinion
May 12, 2014
Sylvia Mathews Burwell, President Obama’s nominee to succeed Kathleen Sebelius as secretary of Health and Human Services, appeared Thursday before the...
Editorials, Opinion
May 08, 2014
The White House initiative against sexual assaults on university and college campuses is a welcome and long overdue effort. It could bring necessary a...
Editorials, Opinion
May 08, 2014
It’s official: Americans enjoy freedom of religion. They do not have freedom from religion. We can thank the Supreme Court’s conservative majority and...
Editorials
May 07, 2014
The federal government sends out nearly $77 billion each year to physicians participating in the Medicare program. The taxpayers footing those bills d...
Editorials
May 06, 2014
We could hardly believe our ears. Bill Kristol, the hawkish editor of The Weekly Standard, was on TV the other day, commenting on the Obama administra...
Editorials
May 05, 2014
We would have preferred that states be given more time and cooperation from the feds in complying with a 2011 Environmental Protection Agency emission...
Editorials
May 02, 2014
Ours was a country in which government regulation protected slavery. After a civil war helped end it, government regulations imposed school segregatio...
Editorials
May 01, 2014
The cost of gassing up your car or truck is climbing again, as it often does about this time of year. Gasoline prices have been increasing steadily fo...
Editorials
Apr 26, 2014
To the extent that the years following the 2008 financial crisis have constituted a “crisis of capitalism,” it has not been because there is something...
Editorials
Apr 21, 2014
To be sure, Goodwill Industries of North Central Pennsylvania helps people and the environment. It sells inexpensive donated clothing, household goods...
Editorials
Apr 17, 2014
“People who complain about taxes can be divided into two classes: men and women.” — Unknown “Income tax has made more liars out of the American people...
Editorials
Apr 16, 2014
Dealing with climate change no longer means simply cutting greenhouse gas emissions, although that’s still a necessary element of any coherent strateg...
Editorials, Opinion
Apr 15, 2014
Factions among and within the right and left disagree about immigration, but nearly all Americans can agree that foreign terrorist shouldn’t step foot...
Editorials
Apr 11, 2014
Is America fundamentally hostile to women? It’s a notion that seems difficult to reconcile with the reality we see around us. In the March jobs report...
Breaking News, Crime, Local News
June 7, 2025
Police are investigating an apparent shooting Saturday afternoon in the City of Bradford. City of Bradford Police, Bradford Township Police, McKean Co...
PA State News
June 7, 2025
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — 'Tis the season when black bears wander into places they shouldn't be — like the nursing home in White Township, Indiana County one...
Local Sports
June 7, 2025
The final 11 players for the NY roster for the 2025 Big 30 have been announced, bringing the total players to 41. Organizers noted that other players ...
Local Sports
June 7, 2025
There was a time not long ago when the future of the God’s Country Marathon was very much in jeopardy. Participation was falling. Endurance events wer...
Local Sports
June 7, 2025
The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford has hired Kelly Unverdorben, longtime successful head coach at Portville (N.Y.) High School, as the sixth hea...
Local News
June 7, 2025
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