News, PA State News
Dec 04, 2022
NEW YORK (TNS) — At Pennsylvania Society, the swanky weekend gathering of the political class in Manhattan, a swift and sudden shift is underway for t...
News, PA State News
Oct 10, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Attorney GeneralJosh Shapirohas a lot of policy ideas and objectives that he wants to bring to Pennsylvania’s governor’s office. Bu...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 29, 2022
I used to think self-styled “progressives” and Black Lives Matter activists had coined the dumbest political slogan of the 21st century: “Defund the P...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 25, 2022
Temporarily anyway, Donald J. Trump resembles the Br’er Rabbit of the Joel Chandler Harris tales: flung into the briar patch by the FBI search of his ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 16, 2022
Does Attorney General Merrick Garland know that he is investigating the man most likely to be the opponent of the president he serves? Does he realize...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 17, 2022
It's understandable that Democrats would want to constantly revisit Jan. 6 — to invoke it, investigate it and sacralize it even. It's a mystery, at le...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 06, 2022
There is a consensus that the Democratic Party is in trouble with midterm elections seven months away. The polls say it, the issues say it and history...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 03, 2022
As I write, a 40-mile-long convoy of Russian “peacekeepers” — i.e., tanks, armored personnel carriers and mobile artillery — is approaching Kyiv with ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 16, 2021
Only last week, we learned that one Donald J. Trump was, in effect, the Typhoid Mary of the COVID-19 epidemic during the 2020 campaign. What’s more, u...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 13, 2021
The death of former Sen. Bob Dole at age 98 — a full quarter-century after he was the unsuccessful Republican presidential nominee — inevitably raises...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 18, 2021
Here is where the Old Contrarian (me) seeks to diminish the importance of what Old Yeller (not the 1956 children’s book, but the 45th president of the...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 14, 2021
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Mike Pence is determined not to be the modern version of William R. King, William A. Wheeler or Charles W. Fairbanks. The three — v...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 10, 2021
Joe Biden, Superstar. For years, Democrats looked at Biden and then turned away. Now they regard him as the savior of the party and perhaps even the c...
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
May 07, 2021
In the nine elections between 1980 and 2012, candidates with one of three names — Bush, Cheney and Romney — appeared on the GOP’s national ticket nine...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 19, 2021
VERO BEACH, Fla. — The Dodgers are long gone, having abandoned their onetime spring-training home here a dozen years ago. The snowbirds are flocking n...
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 11, 2021
Before the second impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump began Tuesday, it may have been tempting to think of it as a sequel to a show that had been can...
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 04, 2021
Many years ago, as a young foreign correspondent, I went to Beirut to cover the Lebanese civil war. On the wall of the newsroom where I worked, someon...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 22, 2020
Now that the electoral college has spoken, it is high time that we Republicans salute and recognize the next president of these United States, Joseph ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 14, 2020
WASHINGTON — This country is, in a word, exhausted. The velocity of news in the Trump era has been unprecedented. The passions expressed in this perio...
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...
Local Sports, Sports
June 14, 2025
(TNS) —As golfers teed off during opening day of this year's 125th U.S. Open Championship, state officials inside of a tent overlooking the course's 1...
