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Late last month, after Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley renewed the county mask order and told me he hoped he’d be in a position to lift it by July 4...

Cheyney (Pa.) University is the nation’s oldest historically black university, founded in 1837. I graduated from Cheyney in December 1975. I was part ...

Usually, The Bradford Era has an article informing of increasing COVID-19 cases in McKean County. Cases climb, coverage continues — my question is, Wh...

Now living in what seems to be the era of impeachment, my mind drifts back in recent history. If impeachment is a tool to rid the government of those ...

Donald Trump was the president of Twitter. What radio was to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and TV was to Ronald Reagan, communicating 280 characters at a ...

Judge Merrick Garland is the right person at the right time to be President Joe Biden’s attorney general. If the AP and Politico are correct that he’s...

In the thousands of books certain to be written about President Donald Trump, the first chapters will almost surely begin with the climax, his last da...

The U.S. Capitol is the cathedral of government in the United States. Since 1793, it has been where the laws that shape our nation were baptized. Wher...

Just a concerned resident’s comment, as a former business owner, and being reminded of the continued requests over the years for financial support for...

What an epic failure our country has become. What a sad and horrifying story. And for no good reason. I know this because Charlie Barr, a sweet and ki...

This year’s pandemic-fueled economic downturn has not been felt equally throughout the working population. Rather, it has painfully illustrated that j...

No precise estimate is available, but after watching an excess of cable television programming lately (call it my personal penance for living through ...

Civil asset forfeiture, a process by which government is allowed to seize the property of Americans without even needing to charge them with a crime, ...

The winter avalanche has arrived. All those holiday catalogs vying for space with bills in our mailboxes. Thus, it is time to put grievances aside and...

In the complete and utter chaos that has been the year 2020, it’s only fitting that one of the NFL’s usual laughing stocks may finally take the field ...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — My wife and I had a discussion last week that I suspect many families are having. Should we pull our son from in-person classes beca...

Ronald Reagan said once, “If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” Update that for modern times as...

Losing a presidential election isn’t easy for any candidate to absorb. ”There are times when all I want to do is scream into a pillow,” Hillary Clinto...

Pennsylvania colleges are facing tough financial choices in the face of declining enrollments, catalyzed by COVID-19. Indiana University of Pennsylvan...

Fall in the woods can be so very beautiful. There's also the excitement and challenge all hunters know and feel this time of the year. Each trip a fie...