Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 01, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Democratic leaders are trying to contain the political damage after President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance accentuated...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 28, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — When two flawed presidential candidates, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, met in their high-stakes debate Thu...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 24, 2024
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — When former President Donald Trump told Senate Republicans last week that he was thinking about replacing the income tax with an “...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 18, 2024
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The debate over school vouchers, which held up last year’s state budget, is back. And this year’s disagreement, with input from Pen...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 17, 2024
With the first and presumptively most important presidential debate coming up in a week, many Republicans and conservatives are exultant. Their candid...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 12, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — News of Donald Trump’s conviction had barely hit the television screens and the internet sites when Sen. Marco Rubio took to social...
Local News, News, PA State News
Jun 11, 2024
HARRISBURG (AP) — A Democratic-sponsored proposal to boost public school funding by billions in the coming years and impose stricter rules on cyber-ch...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 11, 2024
The Biden budget deficit this fiscal year probably will exceed $1.6 trillion. This from a president who has repeatedly tried to pass himself off as a ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 11, 2024
ATLANTA — Groups pushing tighter gun laws have been building political muscle through multiple elections, boosted by the outcry following mass shootin...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 10, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — GOP 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump is all of a sudden something more than a past president. He is a convicted felon, bran...
News, PA State News
Jun 06, 2024
HARRISBURG – When questions on land use arise in the General Assembly, Pennsylvania politicians play a game of role reversal. Republicans, generally q...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 04, 2024
The response to the Donald Trump verdict was predictable, as partisans raced for their corners. But President Joe Biden’s comments were particularly t...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 04, 2024
HARRISBURG (TNS) — The debate over school vouchers is heating up again. And this time, both sides are coming to the fight, a lot more organized — and ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 03, 2024
DETROIT (TNS) — Democrats should be dinged for an in-kind contribution to the Donald Trump campaign for bringing the criminal charges that resulted in...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 03, 2024
Being a “purple state,” Pennsylvania has more than its share of Democrats who are self-described moderates. And, because they’re Democrats, many in th...
News, PA State News
Jun 02, 2024
HARRISBURG — Despite the recent cancellation of a press conference to announce the Forward Party’s latest endorsement, officials remain optimistic abo...
Business, Nation & World, News, ...
May 31, 2024
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — United States Steel Corp. and Nippon Steel Corporation said Thursday that they have received all regulatory approvals outside the U...
Business, News, PA State News
May 27, 2024
HARRISBURG (TNS) — A bill that would give tax credits to employers for helping employees with child care expenses passed in the House with bipartisan ...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 27, 2024
The American Dream in Pennsylvania has a price tag: That’s the cost for a family of four to live “comfortably” in The Keystone State. The tally is bas...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 27, 2024
On Wednesday, the left-leaning British newspaper The Guardian published a Harris poll about what Americans do and don’t know about the economy. It was...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
August 18, 2025
As speculation around his presidential ambitions swirls, make no mistake: Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is already campaigning. And his national shad...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
August 18, 2025
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — A friend who develops affordable housing in and around Pittsburgh once told me about a young woman who was interested in buying a s...
Local News
August 18, 2025
SMETHPORT — Regular Baptist Church of Smethport announced the start of its youth programs for the 2025-26 school year. Kids’ Clubs for children in kin...
Business, Local News
August 18, 2025
Two local oil purchasers have decreased the price they will pay for Penn grade crude oil. Effective Friday, American Refining Group and Ergon Oil Purc...
Lifestyles
August 17, 2025
DEAR ABBY: I am a 67-year-old man who has two sisters. Recently, I was at my younger sister "Mitzi's" house, installing some blinds. While there, I re...
Local News, Nation & World, PA State News
States feel pressure to act
August 16, 2025
HARRISBURG (AP) — Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feedin...
