Opinion

ERIE — How do you go from 100% to dead? That is the tragic enigma which changed Jim Foote’s life. In 2004, Foote’s 15-year-old son, Trey, was diagnose...

The General Services Administration plans to help federal agencies and local governments make $47 billion of purchases in 2026 using a data system tha...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Many so-called experts predicted that President Donald Trump’s economic agenda would usher in an inflationary Armageddon. This proj...

Zohran Mamdani is having a moment. The 33-year-old Queens assemblyman is now the Democratic nominee for mayor of the country’s largest city. Leaving a...

In a time of terrible natural disasters like the one Texas has just experienced, we rely on the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate aid ...

HARRISBURG — On Monday, the House passed a resolution designating September as International Underground Railroad Month. It received near-unanimous su...

I had the privilege of sharing in a special celebration recently. Absolut Care of Allegany, N.Y., was honoring my niece, Amelia Tallman, for 25 years ...

With the retirement of Mt. Lebanon state representative and Minority Whip Dan Miller — he is running for Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas judge ...

Hundreds of thousands of southern Italians made their way to the United States before World War I. But following that war, the Immigration Act of 1924...

President Donald Trump has vowed not to cut Social Security benefits, and it’s easy to understand his position: Proposing even modest reforms to the e...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision in the birthright citizenship case, Trump v. CASA, Inc., but only on the issue of wh...

Thirtysomething state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani's triumph over aging dynast Andrew Cuomo in New York's Democratic mayoral primary should have Pennsyl...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Fluoride is under fire nationally, driven in part by concerns from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In March, Utah became the...

A weekly allowance or a lemonade stand are great ways to teach young kids how to manage their money. A loan from the Small Business Administration is ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — The political realignment has come for economics. At least since the days of Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes in the last cent...

Presidential elections present voters with a mix of triumphs, scandals and defining moments. The 2024 election was no exception. From Donald Trump’s n...

As a military aviator and veteran of more contingencies than I care to remember, I watched with bated breath and prayers in my heart on the evening of...

NEW YORK (TNS) — It’s not always obvious which of the multitude of species of bacteria riding around in us should be classified as germs and attacked,...

State and local governments spent an estimated $770 million in 2023 to incarcerate immigrants who had been in the country for less than three years, a...

Every Philosophy 101 student knows the dilemma. If given the chance to kill Adolf Hitler years before his tyrannical ambitions unleashed death and des...