Opinion, Сolumns
May 15, 2025
The Department of Government Efficiency says it has cut $165 billion of wasteful spending from the federal government, based on its self-reported numb...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 14, 2025
National Public Radio frequently claims that less than 1% of its funding comes from the federal government, an argument used to criticize President Do...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 12, 2025
Since 2017, Harvard University has received more money from the federal government than from its own students’ tuition, according to OpenTheBooks’ rev...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 07, 2025
Pennsylvania leaders need to find a better way to fix the commonwealth's persistent structural deficit than ruinous taxes on so-called "skill games" —...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 02, 2025
President Donald Trump is spending taxpayer money 10% faster than Joe Biden was at this time last year, according to daily financial statements releas...
Local News, News, PA State News
Apr 30, 2025
HARRISBURG — Treasurer Stacy Garrity encourages families to save for education with this year’s 529 Day promotion. Families who save with the PA 529 C...
Local News, News, PA State News
Apr 28, 2025
HARRISBURG — As it stands, the PA Housing and Rehabilitation Enhancement Fund, or PHARE, is capped at $100 million of the state’s ballooning budget. B...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 24, 2025
Elon Musk is reportedly planning to spend less time tending to the budget-cutting DOGE project and more time on his businesses, according to Politico,...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 17, 2025
If the federal government wants to keep Medicare and Social Security intact for the next 75 years, it will need an extra $78.2 trillion in cash that i...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 17, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Congress has a decision to make. Hang American small business owners out to dry, or lock in a tax system that allows America’s entr...
Business, Local News, News
Apr 11, 2025
DEAR RUSTY: I am going to be 67 in a few weeks and I plan on working for another year or two. According to Social Security, they count the best 35 yea...
News, PA State News
Apr 11, 2025
HARRISBURG — The line drawn between skill games tax proposals is thick. For Sen. Gene Yaw, R-Williamsport, collecting 16% from businesses is fair. For...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 10, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Heading into Tax Day, if you listen to progressive policymakers for a few minutes, you’ll likely hear that few problems on Earth ca...
Local News, Nation & World, News, ...
Apr 10, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS)—People have just a few days now to file their taxes. And as the season nearly draws to a close with the deadline approaching, the Int...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 08, 2025
A $400 per month fuel stipend for every employee who comes into the office to work. Concessions, parking, and tickets to a major league baseball game ...
Local News, News, PA State News
Mar 31, 2025
HARRISBURG — Legislators are considering another avenue to reduce the financial burden on Pennsylvania families. Rep. Joe Hogan, R-Penndel, recently a...
Business, Local News, News
Mar 28, 2025
DEAR RUSTY: My wife and I are collecting Social Security. We both started receiving SS at 62 years old. That said, we get by on a tight budget. A reti...
Business, Local News, News
Mar 21, 2025
DEAR RUSTY: I have questions concerning the deduction of money from my Social Security benefit amount as it relates to the sale of investment property...
Nation & World, News
Mar 20, 2025
(TNS) — Several significant policy changes affecting Social Security recipients and applicants get underway this month. One of the changes is designed...
Nation & World, News
Mar 20, 2025
(TNS) — Billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has made big promises to slash what he is calling wasteful and excessive governmen...
Round the Square
August 28, 2025
FACTS: Ready for some odd facts? The website today.com has a lot of them, and they are pretty neat. For example, there were active volcanoes on the mo...
Lifestyles
August 28, 2025
Dear Heloise: My wife and I read your hints daily, and you have some great ones! Here is something that we do to speed up the process of unloading the...
Lifestyles
August 28, 2025
DEAR ABBY: My daughter, "Violet," lives about two hours away. She and her mother (my wife) do not get along. Violet was always a rebellious, independe...
Local News
UWBA launches 2025 campaign
August 28, 2025
The United Way of the Bradford Area announced the kickoff of its 2025 Annual Campaign, marking a historic milestone: the organization’s 100th year of ...
Baseball, National Sports
August 27, 2025
(TNS) —This is simple, really: Great starting pitching is akin to great quarterbacking in the sense that if you have it, you have a chance. You're clo...
National Sports
August 27, 2025
(TNS) —The Pittsburgh Penguins announced an organizational coaching hire Wednesday, naming Evan McFeeters to a position entitled "roving minor league ...
