News, Round the Square
Jan 11, 2023
COMMON SENSE, by Thomas Paine, was published January 10, 1776. Tuesday was its 247th anniversary. The 50-page pamphlet sold more than 500,000 copies i...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 29, 2022
There is a real public health crisis among America’s young people, and it isn’t COVID-19. Every day, more than 300 of our children and loved ones are ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 16, 2022
If there’s one clear lesson from the Brittney Griner/Paul Whelan controversy that’s keeping partisans in America’s culture wars all worked up, it’s th...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 15, 2022
BOSTON (TNS) — The two major political parties’ long hold on America could be finally starting to slip, setting the stage for an exodus of disgruntled...
News, PA State News
Dec 02, 2022
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Pat Toomey, R-Pa., introduced the Pipeline Permitting for Energy Security Act, which would create regulatory certainty for n...
Nov 26, 2022
Why is it rural Americans are basically left out of the polls when new numbers are shown to suggest that inflation is going down? Those of us who live...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 08, 2022
BOSTON (TNS) — The Democrats’ relentlessly negative campaign strategy for winning the midterms may come with a cost in 2024, damaging their prospects ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 02, 2022
In the days before the midterm elections, it’s easy to see our political divisions. In fact, it’s all but impossible to escape them if you’re the sort...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 05, 2022
The death of the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, has understandably triggered an avalanche of tributes to the man who oversaw the ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 29, 2022
The examples abound of America’s lurch toward greater extremism on both the right and left. It’s getting to the point where free speech is being stifl...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 21, 2022
In this broiling summer, when we are shaken by threats that could shatter our most globally revered national monument — America’s cherished democracy ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 05, 2022
There’s a reason for the simultaneous mourning and celebration of the lives of a basketball player and an actress, both out of the public eye for year...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 24, 2022
I read the columns of Robert Reich, the former labor secretary under President Bill Clinton, with considerable interest, even though Reich is a malevo...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 02, 2022
Think about it this way: There is no army or police department in any halfway civilized country — not even the United States — that would allow an unt...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 16, 2022
The expected Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade is an affirmation of America's beleaguered federalist system. If the final opinion from the ...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 05, 2022
(Editor’s note: This is an editorial from the Chicago Tribune, distributed by Tribune News Service.) This editorial board long has supported a woman’s...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 04, 2022
America faces a serious economic and national security risk when it comes to the development and manufacturing of semiconductor chips that are integra...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 03, 2022
The motto for Great Valley High School and its 1,400 students in the Pennsylvania borough of Malvern, about 25 miles west of Philadelphia, is “Creatin...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 19, 2022
One of the most dysfunctional aspects of America’s dysfunctional health care system is medical debt. Even insured patients today can find themselves s...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 13, 2022
A sweeping generalization is an overarching or overly broad statement or opinion in which a general idea or rule is applied too widely, without allowi...
Local News
July 14, 2025
OTTO-ELDRED – The streets of Duke Center will come alive with music, laughter and small-town spirit as the Otto-Eldred Hometown Days returns to Memori...
Nation & World
July 14, 2025
WASHINGTON – One year after the attempted assassination of now-President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the motives of shoo...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
July 14, 2025
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Not since the days of Andrew Carnegie has there been as much economic power in one Pittsburgh room as there will be at Carnegie Mel...
Local News, PA State News
July 14, 2025
HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania officials said Saturday that the intermittent statewide outage of 911 call centers had been resolved. It’s unclear how many ...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
July 14, 2025
Bucks County Sheriff Fred Harran is running for re-election. He’s doing the job of the elected office: keeping residents safe. Progressives, though, a...
Lifestyles
July 14, 2025
Dear Heloise: M.W. writes that securing her purse in a shopping cart with the child safety straps works "unless they also take the cart." When I was y...
