Guest Columns

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Pennsylvania counties have a 235-year history of partnership with the Commonwealth, dating from the earliest counties established by William Penn in 1...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

After more than four years of fighting efforts by bureaucrats at the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to circumvent the Legislature and re...

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...

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...