News, PA State News
Jun 08, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Republican state lawmakers continued to criticize a PennDOT plan to toll nine bridges around the state that they say would hurt sma...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 02, 2022
It should be very easy for state lawmakers to pass a law barring monied interests from giving the legislators what they euphemistically describe as "g...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 09, 2022
From irresponsibly low taxation, to direct tax subsidies, to favorable zoning and much more, many state lawmakers relentlessly have pandered to the na...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 08, 2022
The leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that portends the demise of Roe v. Wade, which established a constitutional right to abortion in 1973, also wou...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 02, 2022
As itinerant millionaires pour money into denigrating one another to impress a small fraction of the state’s population, while ruining television for ...
News, PA State News
May 01, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — State lawmakers packed up their briefcases and went home to their districts last week, turning their focus to re-election campaigns...
News, PA State News
Apr 18, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — When Pennsylvania House Republicans proposed sweeping changes last year to the state’s 2019 election law, Rep. Seth Grove warned Go...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 16, 2022
Nearly 20 years ago, when state Sen.Ed Helfrickwas asked why he thought it was appropriate to spend more than $600 of public money every month for his...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 12, 2022
It’s hard to say exactly when the Republican state legislative majorities abandoned the legislative process, since they didn’t do much with it even wh...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 11, 2022
Frank Burns gets it! Not the bumbling doctor from MASH, but the Democratic state representative from Cambria County. Just like anyone else who has sou...
News, PA State News
Apr 09, 2022
HARRISBURG (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration has asked the state’s highest court to let the centerpiece of his plan to fight climate change take e...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 28, 2022
After years of evading their responsibility to account for how they spend the public’s money, members of the state House have an opportunity to establ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 02, 2022
Pennsylvania legislators long have refused to force gas drillers to stop methane leaks, even though doing so would help fight dangerous climate change...
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 28, 2022
State Rep. Frank Ryan nicely summarized the fundamental problem Thursday as he introduced his latest plan to eliminate widely hated school property ta...
News
Feb 18, 2022
HARRISBURG — Ranks of lawyers packed the courtroom of Pennsylvania’s state Supreme Court on Friday, with most of them aiming to persuade justices to p...
News
Feb 08, 2022
HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf’s eighth and final budget proposal unveiled Tuesday would push state spending past $43 billion for the first time, with the...
News, PA State News
Feb 04, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Lawmakers are set to take the first serious step toward legalizing recreational marijuana in Pennsylvania. A hearing scheduled Mond...
News, PA State News
Jan 26, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — With Philadelphia on pace to break last year’s record murder rate, two state lawmakers are pushing legislation to permanently grant...
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Jan 25, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — The heads of Pennsylvania’s legislative LGBTQ+ Caucuses are calling on the General Assembly to enact a non-discriminatory statute o...
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Jan 24, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — A state lawmaker has introduced legislation that would ask voters to decide whether Pennsylvania government should get out of the l...
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...
