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(This is the second of a two-part series with new St. Bonaventure athletic director Joe Manhertz. Today, raising funds to enhance the University’s spo...

(This is the first of a two-part series with new St. Bonaventure athletic director Joe Manhertz. Today, the effect of the Bonnies’ No. 23 ranking in t...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — I told you so. In the spring, I lamented how some states were bribing people to get their COVID-19 shots. I said vaccine lotteries, ...

It was a president named George Washington who said, “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led like sheep to the slaught...

I read state Sen. Cris Dush's guest commentary in the Oct. 4 edition of The Era and noticed he did not establish the need for for an investigation of ...

A press conference is supposed to be a give and take. Somewhere between a dance and a duel, it depends on both sides taking turns. The speaker gives a...

PITTSBURGH — In December 1833, a young man from Chester, N.H., moved to Washington to take up a position as a clerk in the House of Representatives, s...

“The decision to have children has always struck me as an essentially selfish one: You choose, out of a desire for fulfillment or self-betterment or c...

SCRANTON (AP) — One of the many ways in which Pennsylvania lawmakers have coddled the natural gas industry is by exempting it from some aspects of env...

The Pennsylvania School Employees Retirement System is one of those things that can just make people bristle. It’s bad enough when things are going ri...

We warned China to stop its incursions into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone — and the Chinese responded by flying even more aircraft into the...

The Supreme Court with a conservative supermajority began its new term Monday, hearing arguments in person again (sans COVID-positive Brett Kavanaugh)...

Newspaper people sometimes call it the “daily miracle.” Thoughts and ideas, happenings in the community, comments and plans from civic leaders, effort...

President Joe Biden has repeatedly promised that his massive tax increases won’t hit people earning less than $400,000. Biden even put his family hono...

The American public needs absolute confidence that federal health officials are following the science when it comes to COVID recommendations. Unfortun...

At their finest, universities are places where the best minds and the best ideas compete, where students are presented with the breadth and depth of s...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — When I called for tougher enforcement to collect $104 million in unpaid Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls, I mentioned how I hadn’t been b...

The winter of 2021-22 is going to be a cold one, according to sources as traditional as the Farmers’ Almanac and as high-tech as AccuWeather, which pr...

To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, really smart people sometimes know a lot of things that are not so. And to paraphrase Mark Twain, a lie can get its own s...

Since lawmakers voted to subpoena information from the state’s voter registration system two weeks ago, many Pennsylvania Democrat Leaders have made w...