There are lies and liars and then there’s George Santos.
How did this happen? Those of us who are paying attention find ourselves in a country we no longer recognize.
FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — At first glance, Priscilla Villarreal is not a particularly empathetic figure. Not to most conservatives, anyway.
Republicans have long said the Hunter Biden laptop scandal is really a Joe Biden story. Now, it looks like the Joe Biden classified documents scandal is also a Hunter Biden story. Two Biden sc…
Logging and mining companies and allied politicians lamented recently that two Biden administration decisions to preserve wilderness areas constituted lost economic value.
Is it possible to argue that suspending Donald Trump from various social media sites after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on our nation’s Capitol was the right decision, and to believe also that all…
Political pundits rate Pennsylvania among the swing states. Reviewing the Keystone map, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are overwhelmingly Democratic strongholds. Rural Pennsylvania – what politic…
There’s nothing white supremacy can’t do.
I was at the Bradford Post Office first thing on Thursday. I noticed that the sidewalks around the building hadn’t been shoveled or salted from the snow on Wednesday. I was wondering if anyone…
WASHINGTON (TNS) — When classified documents turned up in President Joe Biden’s former office, his Delaware home and the garage housing his Corvette, the political impact was predictable. Repu…
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Can he get away with it?
ALLENTOWN (TNS) — The recent audit that questioned school property tax hikes in Bethlehem, Northampton and other Pennsylvania communities should anger a lot of people.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is all that is left of what was once the Republican establishment. Sure, there are still some GOP voters who agree with McConnell, and he has like-minded…
ALLENTOWN (TNS) — If you couldn’t perform all of your duties, would your boss still pay your full salary?
Corporations, unions, lobbyists and others who contribute to inaugural committees do so because it suits their interests.
Pennsylvania’s founding fathers rightly established our government with the capacity to allow our constitution to change and evolve, while upholding the guiding principle of being put in place…
After a hiatus during the Trump years, Republicans are back in the mood for fiscal probity. It’s very strange not to seriously pursue a deeply held goal when you have unified control of Washin…
State Sen. Greg Rothman’s push for municipal police radar in Pennsylvania has the same flaws now that he is in the state Senate as when he was in the House.
It’s an old aphorism that if you tax something, you get less of it. Seven states are at risk of finding out exactly how that truism applies to wealth tax legislation introduced in each should …
I have lived all over due to my husband’s construction jobs and am glad we came here to our little pocket of the world, Bradford, in 1969.
BALTIMORE (TNS) — A treatment that improves Alzheimer’s disease would be a great advance, but Leqembi (lecanemab), which recently received accelerated approval from the FDA, is not that drug.
Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in as a justice of the Supreme Court more than four years ago, on Oct. 6, 2018. His oath followed perhaps the ugliest Supreme Court Senate confirmation process in his…
Heard about the stash of classified documents that turned up in a desk drawer in a hotel room that President Joe Biden once occupied?
Defense spending is vital to ensure the nation’s security. But that doesn’t mean the Pentagon should be above budget scrutiny. Far from it, as a recent audit reveals.
ALLENTOWN (TNS) — The political paralysis in our state Legislature is holding up several proposed government reform bills that would improve the accountability and transparency of Pennsylvania…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis stands accused of a long parade of horribles to which has now been added a new count — allegedly opposing the teaching of African American history.
With Democrat Josh Shapiro as a newly inaugurated governor and a new legislative body, Pennsylvania will either shine as an energy superstar or continue down the dim path of economic decline.
It’s time for the grown-ups to rise to the occasion. Past time, really, but now will suffice.
Pennsylvania is often ground zero for political battles and policy debates, with the purple makeup of our state serving as a bellwether for national sentiment on a broad range of issues.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy plans to use the U.S. government’s potential default on its debt as the means to “negotiate” future spending.
Environmental groups, year after year, argue that Pennsylvania must prioritize more state funding for conservation projects.
Chances are, your humble, obedient servant here will never be invited to teach at Hamline University, a Methodist school in St. Paul, Minnesota. For one thing, I’m almost old enough to be pres…
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — One of the most ridiculous of the recent media-driven outrages that I can remember happened last week when Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Ivan Provorov didn’t come out to sk…
What’s the world’s most populous nation?
Most of Pennsylvania’s neighboring states increased their minimum wages again with the new year, while the state Legislature has kept the minimum wage here mired at the same $7.25 an hour that…
