News, PA State News
Jan 09, 2025
HARRISBURG — One member down, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives struck an, at times, somber yet congenial bipartisan tone as they opened the 2...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 13, 2023
Republicans looked like they were heading for a no-win debacle on the House floor in their fight over speaker. Instead, Kevin McCarthy got over the to...
News, PA State News
Jan 10, 2023
HARRISBURG — A week after he was a surprise choice to become speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Democratic state Rep. Mark Rozzi ca...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 10, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Rep. Kevin McCarthy won his 15th bid to become speaker of the House, but only at great cost. To win the votes he needed to secure t...
News, PA State News
Jan 08, 2023
As Republican infighting debilitates Washington, lawmakers at some U.S. statehouses have managed to launch sessions complicated by similar GOP partisa...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 03, 2023
It’s another New Year and time for a round of predictions — whether they turn out right will be up to history to decide. Russia’s former president Dmi...
News, PA State News
Dec 08, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Pennsylvania House Democrats’ claim that they hold the majority in the 203-member chamber in an ongoing power struggle has been rej...
News, PA State News
Nov 22, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Rep. Bryan Cutler, current Speaker of the Pennsylvania House, will continue to lead the state House Republican caucus into the new ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 18, 2022
Kevin McCarthy may now have the hardest job in Washington. Assuming that he becomes speaker of the House, which will require the near-unanimous suppor...
News, PA State News
Nov 17, 2022
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Facing a dramatically different political landscape than Republicans had expected, with the possibility of Democrats in control of ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 24, 2022
WASHINGTON (TNS) — With Election Day two weeks away, Republican prospects of taking control of the House of Representatives , already strong, appear t...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 18, 2022
Redistricting is not just something that happens every 10 years. It is more than just the way that we shuffle the decks of legislators and change the ...
News, PA State News
Jan 16, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — A self-described “worker guy” from Delaware County who now runs an $80 million a year business emerged as the favorite choice to be...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 18, 2021
Here is where the Old Contrarian (me) seeks to diminish the importance of what Old Yeller (not the 1956 children’s book, but the 45th president of the...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 18, 2021
State legislators trying to strip the executive branch of much of its discretion regarding emergency management have complained that the Wolf administ...
Local News
Jan 26, 2021
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania House Republican Caucus elected members to open leadership positions Monday following a vacancy in the position of caucu...
Local News
Nov 11, 2020
HARRISBURG — Rep. Martin Causer, R-Turtlepoint, has been reelected by his peers to serve as chairman of the House Majority Policy Committee for the up...
Local News
Aug 21, 2020
HARRISBURG — The House Majority Policy Committee, chaired by Rep. Martin Causer, R-Turtlepoint, will host a hearing next week to highlight the vital r...
Local News
Jul 07, 2020
In a June 27 article regarding state Sen. Joe Scarnati’s response to a Spotlight PA report printed by The Era, the senator has taken issue with The Er...
Bradford, Local News, News
Mar 07, 2020
Governor Tom Wolf confirmed two cases of COVID-19 in Pennsylvania Friday. Wolf, referring to the two as the first presumptive positive cases of 2019 N...
Local Sports, Outdoors
July 31, 2025
JOHNSONBURG — Jim Pennington Jr., president of Rolfe Beagle Club, announced that Rolfe Beagle Club will once again offer its popular Coyote and Crow H...
Round the Square
July 31, 2025
LIFE AT CAMP: Remember being a kid, going to camp during the summer with a church group or scouts? We found a letter from Natalie Fesenmeyer reporting...
Lifestyles
July 31, 2025
Dear Heloise: Government and politics aren't the same thing. All the "bickering" you hear and read is people spewing political opinions, some of which...
Lifestyles
July 31, 2025
DEAR ABBY: My son is 20 and a senior in college. He's a baseball player and is about to ask the girl he's been dating for a year and a half to marry h...
Local News, News, Outdoors
July 30, 2025
After tabling the issue in April, the Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission voted earlier this week on changes that could allow stocking ...
National Sports, Outdoors
July 30, 2025
SPARTA, Ill. — After 3,100 miles, 80 hours in the truck, and 1,700 competitive targets Brayden Cosper finished participation in national shooting even...
