Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 02, 2022
We are a sad, sad country being run by a weak, spineless, lying dog-faced pony soldier. Yes, President Joe Biden and his administration — how could an...
News, Round the Square
Feb 03, 2022
VDAY SPENDING: According to the personal-finance website WalletHub, which recently released its report on 2022’s Best Places for Valentine’s Day, 70 m...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 27, 2022
American voters have been trying to tell political parties and elected officials what they want, and perhaps more importantly, what they don’t want. T...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 19, 2022
A second civil war seems far-fetched. But do we ignore the possibility at our peril? Or do we turn it into a self-fulfilling prophecy by talking about...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 14, 2022
Americans have a lot to worry about. Soaring inflation. A pandemic that refuses to go away. Locked-down schools that keep the kids at home while you h...
Сolumns
Dec 10, 2021
What does it mean to serve your country? Army Col. Edward Shames, the last remaining member of World War II’s “Band of Brothers,” certainly answered t...
Editorials
Dec 10, 2021
Bob Dole was among the best of a generation of Americans who believed this country had both the ability and obligation to do great things at home and ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 02, 2021
The 2020 Democratic presidential primary campaign was essentially a bidding war in which each candidate pledged to spend trillions of dollars beyond w...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 17, 2021
What can sensible adults agree on regarding Kyle Rittenhouse, the latest young symbol on whom America can hang its devastating internal division and t...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 17, 2021
Commentators friendly to the president couldn’t understand it. The economy was expanding. Unemployment was falling. But the public was unhappy about t...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 06, 2021
As the election results in Virginia and elsewhere demonstrate, many parents are upset with how American history and civics are being taught in schools...
News
Nov 05, 2021
With tens of millions of Americans who work at companies with 100 or more employees ordered to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. 4 or get t...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 02, 2021
Headlines are projecting that the prospects for the upcoming holidays look bleak. COVID-19 is in retreat, thankfully, but new obstacles to the season’...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 28, 2021
On Tuesday’s episode of the NPR show, “The Daily,” New York Times reporter Jonathan Weisman offered a powerful summary of the Democrats’ original visi...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 29, 2021
The Biden administration is actively pushing Congress to require banks to report to the Internal Revenue Service on the account activity of a huge swa...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 14, 2021
ALLENTOWN (TNS) — I still recall the first thing I did when I got home on Sept. 11, 2001. I hung my flag on my front porch, where it rippled proudly i...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 12, 2021
Twenty years later, it is difficult to overstate the impact of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The attacks claimed the lives of 2,751 people ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 11, 2021
It is understandable, given the chaos surrounding the U.S. exit from Afghanistan — especially the murder of the 13 U.S. troops — that our attention ha...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 07, 2021
On that day 20 years ago this week, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared war on Pentagon bureaucracy, saying that it was a threat to national...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 03, 2021
Lost wars are supposed to provoke soul-searching. In America, they usually bring historical revisionism instead. When once-good wars go bad, Americans...
PA State News
August 2, 2025
UNIVERSITY PARK — Making wine is a complex endeavor — it depends on grape composition, microbes like yeast, and environmental conditions such as tempe...
Business, Nation & World, PA State News
August 2, 2025
(TNS) — If there was any takeaway from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s first public meeting on the restart of the nuclear power station at Three M...
Lifestyles, Local News, Local Sports, ...
August 2, 2025
Mast crops are spotty this year, except for acorns. Soft mast, like apples and wild cherries, seems to be minimal to none in most areas. Soft mast blo...
Round the Square
August 2, 2025
EXCITED: It's August — are you getting excited for the fabulous events in McKean County during this back-to-school month? It's Festa Italiana in Bradf...
Lifestyles
August 2, 2025
Dear Heloise: When hanging up pictures, it is best to drill a pilot hole into the plaster for the nail before hammering it in. If one does not drill a...
Lifestyles
August 2, 2025
DEAR ABBY: I made a terrible mistake moving 2,000 miles across the country to be closer to my grandchildren. In the past, I have always noticed my son...
