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Let’s stop referring to this process as a negotiation. There is no negotiation when one group is determined to blackmail our entire nation to get thei...

Two articles in The Bradford Era by Marcie Schellhammer caught my attention and motivated this letter. The articles, “Draft final assessment of low-fl...

There’s a long complicated history behind our country’s dependence on the two-party system. Generally speaking, it comes down to the fact that the ele...

ABC News did a wide-ranging interview with Robert Kennedy Jr. the other day. The ABC reporter asked him a number of challenging questions, notably abo...

The sky isn’t falling for the Pirates, nor are they destined to fall apart despite a three-game sweep at the hands of the Tampa Bay Rays. This isn’t t...

Nearly every headline about the expected surge in migrants mentions something called Title 42 — and with good reason. On May 11, this U.S. law expires...

Many state legislators around the country somehow have concluded that cross-dressing is a major issue regarding school governance. But in Pennsylvania...

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives has done something that seems like a throwback to a quaint time we can barely remember. It did its job. More...

Perhaps the surest sign that electric vehicles are here to stay is that state legislatures have begun to devise new tax structures to ensure that driv...

A significant debate is starting this legislative session in Harrisburg over a long-standing and misrepresented issue facing Pennsylvania in its role ...

The long era of the dominance of the SAT in college admissions is coming to an end. The test is increasingly being shelved not because it failed but b...

Barack Obama once said that “elections have consequences.” President Joe Biden would be wise to recognize the wisdom of his old boss’s observation. De...

A principal feature of congressional Republicans’ deficit policy is a proposal to reduce social safety net costs by requiring work in exchange for ben...

In a week of major news stories, perhaps the most consequential development of all got lost in the shuffle. Joe Biden, octogenarian weakling, decided ...

Sometimes having fewer people to do the job might mean more work for the employees but a lower bottom line for the payroll. You have a store to staff,...

What can you reasonably expect to achieve in 3% of the time you have a job? For reporters and other observers, the 3% milestone is an important inflec...

Joe Biden’s video announcing his reelection bid makes much of his supposed defense of democracy. If it weren’t for that, it strongly implies, he’d be ...

BOSTON (TNS) — The Democratic Party is showing itself to be anything but democratic. U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gloats about “deplatforming” h...

ATLANTA (TNS) — If you Google “When is a man in his prime?” you’ll get a startling result: “A man is past his prime when he no longer has potential.” ...

If you think homeownership is unaffordable now, even with a good credit score, hang on. It’s about to get worse. In an era of record high home prices ...