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Follow the money. If there was one suggestion that came across loud and clear at Monday’s town hall meeting concerning the future of our health care, ...

Imagine going into a restaurant and seeing every item on the menu listed as “Market Price.” You ask what that price is, but the server can’t tell you....

{p class=”krtHeadline”}The push in some corners to review the outcome of the 2020 general election in Pennsylvania took a strange turn in Harrisburg l...

One of the most challenging aspects of the modern presidency is to keep the focus on your own agenda, lest what you want to do is overwhelmed by what ...

The best indication that Larry Elder was going down hard in the California recall wasn’t the polling, although that all swung the wrong way in the fin...

When schools and childcare facilities closed due to the pandemic, working parents were forced to leave their jobs. Many parents stayed home to care fo...

I read a letter with the title "A Dark Future” in the Sept. 5 edition of Other Voices. Some things I agreed with and some not so much. The country has...

It has been just over than a month since I began as interim president and CEO of Upper Allegheny Health System. During this time I’ve become familiar ...

Polio has been nearly eliminated worldwide. In the six-and-a-half decades since my Salk vaccination, I have been unaware of any “socialized medicine” ...

OLEAN, N.Y. — Dwayne Randall figured there was a strong chance he’d be No. 1. After all, the current head golf professional at Bartlett Country Club h...

Let’s talk some baseball … specifically no-hitters and Tony La Russa. IF IT SEEMS as if there’s a hitless game every other day in the major leagues, t...

A president’s first 100 days are an arbitrary benchmark, a point of measurement journalists are fond of because it allows us to draw comparisons betwe...

After a year of angry battles over lockdowns, mask mandates and vaccinations, a new front has opened in the coronavirus culture war: vaccine “passport...

In a comeback story for the ages, the U.S. bald eagle population in the lower 48 states has quadrupled in the last 12 years. At its most endangered po...

Fresh, clean water is the very foundation of all life. Without it, nothing — human, plant or animal — can survive. For far too long, our neighbors bot...

Following pandemic news too closely can be an emotional roller coaster, with dire public health warnings immediately followed by hopeful new studies. ...

As our wonderful Washington politicians talk about spending almost $2 trillion on giveaway programs, I thought perhaps "a trillion" could be put into ...

I am writing in response to the commentary by Jay Ambrose in the March 26 edition of The Era. I wholeheartedly agree with Ambrose that President Biden...

When he was running for president in 2016, Donald Trump said he was going to build a 1,000-mile concrete wall, maybe 30 feet high, on the southern bor...

The snow that covered the landscape is disappearing. It is a welcome change for wildlife and those of us who travel there. For several weeks, walking ...