Guest Columns, Opinion
Apr 25, 2017
In Lewis Carroll’s classic wonderland tale, Alice famously asks the Cheshire Cat, “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “Tha...
Guest Columns, Opinion
Apr 21, 2017
The term 'news media' can mean a lot of different things these days, but at the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association, the news media that we work with a...
Guest Columns, Opinion
Apr 08, 2017
Under the guise of cost saving and patient safety, health insurers use a process called prior authorization to decide whether they will cover a proced...
Guest Columns, Opinion
Mar 16, 2017
In January, Gov. Tom Wolf sent $1.8 million in taxpayer dollars to consultants at McKinsey & Co., who ironically provided his budget secretary with a ...
Guest Columns, Opinion
Mar 11, 2017
Tioga County has much to be proud of, but certainly at or near the top of the list is Mansfield University (MU). This is the only university in the co...
Guest Columns, Opinion
Mar 09, 2017
In my first semester of college, a dorm mate commented to me how “ethnic” my friends from high school were. Confused by the statement, I looked at the...
Guest Columns, Opinion
Mar 04, 2017
March 4, 2017, marks the 20 th anniversary of American Refining Group Inc.’s ownership of the Bradford refinery. Early in our history we saw difficult...
Guest Columns, Opinion
Mar 01, 2017
Pennsylvania counties have a 235-year history of partnership with the Commonwealth, dating from the earliest counties established by William Penn in 1...
Guest Columns, Opinion
Feb 24, 2017
“Kindergarten babies, stick their heads in gravy,” shouted the first grade class at us as we passed them in the hall of Second Ward School. This is on...
Guest Columns, Opinion
Jan 25, 2017
The YWCA Bradford’s Homeless Shelter is always full, and there is almost always a wait list. The rooms above its administrative offices have served as...
Guest Columns, Opinion
Dec 31, 2016
As 2016, a momentous year in terms of news and information, comes to a close, we want to express appreciation for the support our readers and advertis...
Guest Columns, Opinion
Nov 02, 2016
Emily has become a prisoner in her own life. Each day when she awakes, she spends a moment lying in her bed, waiting to see how bad the pain is. She w...
Guest Columns, Opinion
Oct 26, 2016
"Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?" — Clarence, "It's a Wonder...
Guest Columns, Opinion
Oct 25, 2016
I admit it, I am a fan of The Walking Dead. The degeneration of society in a zombie apocalypse is fascinating, and the brutal end to anyone — no matte...
Guest Columns, Opinion
Oct 05, 2016
October marks Down Syndrome Awareness Month. You may ask, why do we need awareness for Down Syndrome? Most people know that Down Syndrome is a chromos...
Guest Columns, Opinion
Sep 29, 2016
Round 1 goes to Hillary Clinton. Anyone who watched the debate Monday night clearly saw Donald Trump, who had maintained a relatively solid footing fo...
Guest Columns, Opinion
Jul 23, 2016
While definitions of the “American Dream” can be as diverse as the people who make up this great nation, there has been a long-held belief that each c...
Guest Columns, Opinion
Jun 29, 2016
After more than four years of fighting efforts by bureaucrats at the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to circumvent the Legislature and re...
Guest Columns, Opinion
Jun 15, 2016
The massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Conn., in December 2012 had a profound impact on how I would vote as a member of the U.S. Sen...
Guest Columns, Opinion
Jun 10, 2016
Just three weeks remain in the state’s fiscal year, and with the memory of the fiscal year 2015-16 state budget impasse still fresh in everyone’s mind...
Local News
June 2, 2025
DUKE CENTER — Fifty students received their diplomas as the class of 2025 during Otto-Eldred High School commencement activities held Friday evening i...
Local News
June 2, 2025
SMETHPORT — Smethport Area High School graduated 57 students Friday evening with the Hubbers’ Class of 2025. Superintendent Brice Benson offered his c...
Business, Local News
June 2, 2025
Bradford Corner Bar held an official grand opening and ribbon cutting Saturday. Shown, from left, are Chelsea Cummins-Baxter with her son, Noah Baxte...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
June 2, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — It pains me to say this, as both an economist and a graduate of Columbia, but: It may be time to break up not only Columbia but also ...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
June 2, 2025
President Donald Trump described the $400 million jet Qatar’s government gave to the U.S. as a “gift, free of charge” on Truth Social. The plane may b...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
June 2, 2025
In their upside down, Alice-in-Wonderland version of reality, the left has a point when they cast George Orwell as a prophet of our times. Our world i...
