News, PA State News
Sep 14, 2021
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Republican state lawmakers are taking a different avenue outside of the courts to challenge Pennsylvania Acting Health Secretary Al...
News
Aug 25, 2021
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania schools need a statewide requirement that students in classrooms wear masks as protection against the coronavirus, the Democ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 23, 2021
Although it originated on the other side of the state Capitol, state senators took notice of the recent arrest of Democratic former state Rep. Margo D...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 21, 2021
Transparency and accountability come in small steps where the state Legislature is concerned. The recent announcement that the state Senate soon will ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 13, 2021
Why is fiscal accountability such a far reach for state lawmakers? They routinely talk about the need to reform the current expense reimbursement syst...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 12, 2021
Remember the Texas Democrats? Last month, 51 Democratic state lawmakers boarded private planes in Austin, headed for Washington, D.C. Their purpose wa...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 26, 2021
Change can be hard and it can be scary. But, it also can be promising. Because with change comes opportunity. That’s the spirit that must be tapped as...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 17, 2021
ALLENTOWN (TNS) — Pennsylvania took a big step Tuesday toward addressing climate change. The state Environmental Quality Board approved regulations to...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 24, 2021
ALLENTOWN (TNS) — I hate it when people steal my lines. As I considered how to address one of the latest save-the-bars proposals by our esteemed state...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 16, 2021
The state Legislature may not be able to stop the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s plan to toll the nine interstate highway bridges in the ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 12, 2021
ALLENTOWN (TNS) — Pennsylvania lawmakers sure were eager to flex their new powers. The House and Senate voted Thursday to end the disaster declaration...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 08, 2021
Many state lawmakers who gleefully have given billions of dollars in tax credits to the natural gas industry and its derivatives are far more suspicio...
Сolumns
Jun 04, 2021
Texas is the latest state to have a big fight over reforming its election laws. Remember that in Georgia, some Democrats — like President Joe Biden — ...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 29, 2021
Groucho Marx isn’t often hailed as a political oracle. But you can’t tell me he wasn’t channeling the future Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky in 1932,...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 21, 2021
It’s not shocking that voters appeared to approve amending the state Constitution on Tuesday in an attempt to limit the governor’s powers during futur...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 18, 2021
State legislators trying to strip the executive branch of much of its discretion regarding emergency management have complained that the Wolf administ...
News
Apr 27, 2021
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The American Conservative Union Foundation, host of the Conservative Political Action Conference, has just released the 50th Edition...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 17, 2021
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Pennsylvania lawmakers once again must decide whether to take the cellphones out of drivers’ hands. A bill to do just that could se...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 30, 2021
Pennsylvania, like the rest of the nation, is experiencing a shortage of substitute teachers. State house lawmakers are ushering a bill to hopeful pas...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 20, 2021
State lawmakers will be getting a late start on the redistricting process this year because census data won’t be released until Sept. 30. That delay m...
Lifestyles, Local News, Local Sports, ...
August 2, 2025
Mast crops are spotty this year, except for acorns. Soft mast, like apples and wild cherries, seems to be minimal to none in most areas. Soft mast blo...
Round the Square
August 2, 2025
EXCITED: It's August — are you getting excited for the fabulous events in McKean County during this back-to-school month? It's Festa Italiana in Bradf...
Lifestyles
August 2, 2025
Dear Heloise: When hanging up pictures, it is best to drill a pilot hole into the plaster for the nail before hammering it in. If one does not drill a...
Lifestyles
August 2, 2025
DEAR ABBY: I made a terrible mistake moving 2,000 miles across the country to be closer to my grandchildren. In the past, I have always noticed my son...
Local News
August 2, 2025
EMPORIUM — Educational programs are on tap today at Sizerville State Park. Tracks and Traces is set for 3 p.m. at the Environmental Learning Center. H...
National Sports
August 1, 2025
(TNS) — Four years ago, the Pirates eschewed a traditional draft strategy and instead took Henry Davis No. 1 overall, using the savings to sign other ...
