Feb 19, 2022
It’s not 2010 again in GOP politics and never will be, but you could be forgiven for having flashbacks to the beginnings of the tea party. A leaderles...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 23, 2021
Joe Biden turned 79 last week. He’s beginning to look his age. The president walks a little more stiffly now. His diction, once clear, sometimes sound...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 27, 2021
George Orwell famously said that “there are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.” His adage now applies to anyone associ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 30, 2021
If the biggest news is what’s not being talked about, then my candidate for the most neglected story would be President Joe Biden’s plan for $3.5 tril...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 02, 2021
Last week, President Joe Biden set an example that all of us — Democrat and Republican alike — should embrace. It wasn’t so much what he did — orderin...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 09, 2021
It is said that medieval scholastic philosophers debated how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. If so, they didn’t have anything on the amorp...
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 25, 2021
There’s some debate over the ability of the human mind to really comprehend numbers, especially as they get bigger. Five is simple. One can easily pic...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 24, 2020
Both presidential candidates were on better behavior for the second debate than for the first, which meant each could speak in full sentences without ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 02, 2020
What are the right words to describe the first presidential debate of 2020? Should we call what we saw a slugfest? A dogfight? Verbal mud wrestling by...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 01, 2020
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has spent the last months trying to find a way to throw Joe Biden off his game and strip him of his status as fron...
Editorials
Sep 30, 2020
As if having his music reduced to ringtones wasn’t insult enough, the great Ludwig van Beethoven himself has now become a political football in the ca...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 18, 2020
FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS ) — At this point in the pandemic, there seem to be two primary sensibilities about how to approach the virus. The first says t...
Сolumns
Aug 06, 2020
There are three presidential debates scheduled before the Nov. 3 election. The first will be on Sept. 29 at Case Western Reserve University in Clevela...
Bradford, Entertainment, Lifestyles
May 08, 2020
NEW WILMINGTON — The Westminster College Speech & Debate Society competed in the Novice National Forensics Tournament held March 6-8 at Berry College ...
Local News, News, Online Features
Oct 24, 2018
Democratic challenger Maryanne Cole faced off against Republican incumbent Martin Causer Tuesday night in an at-times heated debate organized by The E...
News, Round the Square
Oct 23, 2018
DEBATE : Remember, folks, today is the day to hear what the candidates for the 67th District of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives have to say....
Local News, News, Round the Square
Jan 01, 2018
POLITICS: With 2018 finally here, let’s take some time to reflect back on the notorious year of 2017. Boy, was it a politically divided year. It was s...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 21, 2017
WASHINGTON — The national debate over sexual harassment and sexual assault has reached an important and precarious moment as it shifts from what behav...
Local News, News, Online Features
Jul 26, 2017
Tuesday’s vote to start the process of repealing the Affordable Care Act caused shockwaves throughout the nation that have rippled into the Keystone s...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 22, 2017
Of all the arguments to make for repealing and replacing Obamacare, the very worst is that people don't need health insurance. Yet this is a Trump adm...
Nation & World, PA State News
June 15, 2025
UNIVERSITY PARK — Entire regions of trees are disappearing because of invasive pests, disease and a changing climate. The key to their ability to adap...
PA State News
June 15, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Brad Hatch grew up near Altoona and started his career as a teacher in the local school district, working his way up to assistant p...
PA State News
June 14, 2025
PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...
Local News, Nation & World
June 14, 2025
Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
June 14, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...
Local Sports
June 14, 2025
BROCKWAY - The 10th Annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football game is slated for the end of the month, and several area players were recognized for t...
