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ALLENTOWN (TNS) — I still recall the first thing I did when I got home on Sept. 11, 2001. I hung my flag on my front porch, where it rippled proudly i...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania Corrections Secretary John Wetzel will soon leave the job he’s held for more than a decade and be replaced by a top adm...

The 18th-century English philosopher Jeremy Bentham came up with the idea of the panopticon, a prison designed to allow all the prisoners to be observ...

One of the easiest ways to make a deadly error is to take action to address a problem without giving careful thought to whether the action you’re taki...

Lawmakers realize we have a pervasive nursing home abuse problem in America. Nursing home COVID deaths are nearing 200,000. More glaringly, a bipartis...

There are a lot of things that Pennsylvania’s government needs to underwrite. There are more than 3,000 schools, 14 state universities and four more s...

Pennsylvania spends about $1.1 billion annually on its parks and recreation areas, but that is just $83 per resident, the 10th lowest rate of spending...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Retired Pennsylvania public school and state government employees are not alone in hoping to someday see a cost-of-living adjustmen...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — My recent column in support of replacing the state gas tax with a fee for every mile traveled wasn’t popular with readers. I didn’t ...

U.S. taxpayers are losing tens of billions of dollars a year to “improper payments” of tax refunds, and it looks like investigators have thrown in the...

Last week, Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s longtime CEO and the wealthiest human on the planet, decided to treat himself to an extraordinary journey beyond the K...

Back in 2016, when expectations for change were running high in Cuba, I traveled to Havana and spoke with Cuban academics, artists, independent blogge...

The unrest on Cuba’s streets is the biggest challenge to the country’s communist government in decades. And it poses a dilemma for the Biden administr...

Totalitarian regimes don’t tolerate dissent, so the unrest in Cuba has been an astonishing sight. Thousands of Cubans have defied government protest b...

It’s not easy to run a hideous dictatorship and still have fans and defenders in fashionable quarters, but the Castro regime has managed it for decade...

Former President Donald Trump’s lawsuits against Twitter, Google and Facebook for kicking him off their platforms are sure losers, legally speaking. T...

Israel has a new government — but how much difference this will make to the prospects for peace is in doubt. In Gaza, Hamas emerged from its recent 11...

It’s the kind of assignment that changes a reporter. On Sept. 11, 2001, Bradford native Emily Longnecker had only been working in the field for about ...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced Monday that it is accepting applications for its new Community Navigator Pilot Pro...

Catching up with a friend over Zoom, I wondered recently what might have happened if China had come clean about the presence and origins of COVID-19 b...