Breaking News
July 31, 2025
The U.S. National Weather Service announced this morning that thunderstorms with especially heavy rain are possible this afternoon and evening. The he...
News, PA State News
Jan 16, 2023
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Pennsylvania is a hugely important political battleground, but it hasn’t traditionally mattered much in presidential primaries. T...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 28, 2022
One characteristic of American life distinguishes our country from all other democracies: Our political campaigns are never-ending. The moment one ele...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 21, 2022
Pro-life activists around the country — and particularly in the states that have enacted abortion restrictions or outright bans following the disastro...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 07, 2022
Whose pandemic strategy really saved lives? Which states or countries lost the most people to the virus? Or to the unintended consequences of mitigati...
Nov 26, 2022
Why is it rural Americans are basically left out of the polls when new numbers are shown to suggest that inflation is going down? Those of us who live...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 06, 2022
The election is only days away, the country is in a funk, talk about the decline of democracy is in the air. If nothing else, the toxic mixture of thi...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 23, 2022
FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — When the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision came down in June and overturned Roe v. Wade, pro-lifers everywhere rejoiced. Their ...
Round the Square
Oct 20, 2022
PITCH: We found quite a sales pitch in a newspaper for 1925, and were surprised by what they were selling — Florida. Brokers were working on selling v...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 26, 2022
The Biden administration has opened our southern border to an unlimited number of illegal immigrants from all parts of the globe — and has no intentio...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 18, 2022
One year after the U.S. departure from Afghanistan, a government watchdog is still doing its vital work of accounting for the more than $146 billion i...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 18, 2022
Our country is in a very dark place at the moment. But I have hope, because the answers are all around us. They live around us. For thousands of years...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 23, 2022
For more than two decades, American presidents have invested high hopes in a deepening U.S. relationship with India, the world's largest democracy — a...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 10, 2022
Only days after the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that most nations aren’t meeting their commitments to reduce green...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 08, 2022
I was appointed state director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development for the Commonwealth in October 2021. Thus far, the highlight...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 02, 2022
We are a sad, sad country being run by a weak, spineless, lying dog-faced pony soldier. Yes, President Joe Biden and his administration — how could an...
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 05, 2022
Bad ideas never truly go away. So it is that an old left-wing trope from the Cold War has currency again, both on the populist right and among progres...
News
Feb 02, 2022
PUNXSUTAWNEY (AP) — There will be six more weeks of winter, Punxsutawney Phil predicted as he emerged from his burrow Wednesday to perform his Groundh...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 14, 2022
Americans have a lot to worry about. Soaring inflation. A pandemic that refuses to go away. Locked-down schools that keep the kids at home while you h...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 11, 2021
No CPAC invitation will be in the offing anytime soon, but Vladimir Putin has picked up admirers on the populist right, here and abroad, that he doesn...
News
Dec 10, 2021
WASHINGTON — Congress’ annual defense policy bill will include legislation authored by U.S. Sens. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., to hol...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
July 31, 2025
President Donald Trump’s tariff negotiations have been largely successful. Not so for his efforts to end the Ukraine war. Trump has expressed increasi...
Lifestyles
July 31, 2025
August is a special month. The pressure is off and it’s time to enjoy the late-season garden. We still have to weed, trim, and water but we can also p...
July 31, 2025
Lafayette Township Volunteer Fire Department, along with Mount Jewett and Kane ambulances, were dispatched at 8:54 a.m. Thursday to a reported tractor...
Local News
Rotary garden blooms with unity
July 31, 2025
On Wednesday evening members of Bradford’s Rotary Club were honored to install a set of Peace Poles within their garden, located at the corner of Mech...
July 31, 2025
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (TNS) — The left-leaning press is ringing the alarm bells: “Trump’s Texas Gerrymander Is Supercharging a New War on Democracy,” says ...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
July 31, 2025
According to rankings released by U.S. News, Pennsylvania is the 41st “best state,” positioning itself at 39th in education and 38th in its overall ec...
