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As a onetime academic, I’ve always been of two minds about the institution of tenure. In theory, it protects intellectual freedom. In practice, howeve...

This column was supposed to be on the PGA Championship. After all, 50-year-old Phil Mickelson was bidding to become the oldest winner of a major in th...

After a years-long battle and strong opposition from a top Pennsylvania lawmaker, Erie County’s request for a brick-and-mortar community college has b...

At Friday’s Pennsylvania Associated Press Media Editors awards in Harrisburg, Era Assistant Managing Editor Marcie Schellhammer was honored with a fir...

APRIL FOOLS: With April Fools’ Day falling on Easter this year — and since we don’t publish a Sunday paper — we cut our readers a break from our annua...

Years ago I wrote a column called “Where’s the outrage?” I doubt many people remember. It was around the time when a local woman was charged with anim...

Masking tape. It may sound strange, but, that’s what comes to mind when I pass the many small auto repair and auto body shops dotting Western Pennsylv...

SAND PUMPINGS: A reader recently suggested we look back at some of the old “Sand Pumpings” columns that ran in The Era before “Round the Square” was e...