Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 04, 2022
A former local state representative once joked that he wisely kept his sparkling new state-leased vehicle out of sight in his home garage when he was ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 04, 2022
Musicians regularly oil their instruments' valves to reduce friction and ease play — much as private interests regularly oil some state politicians fo...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 21, 2022
As state lawmakers trickle back to Harrisburg, state residents might be interested to know how the legislators spent their unduly long summer vacation...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 18, 2022
Redistricting is not just something that happens every 10 years. It is more than just the way that we shuffle the decks of legislators and change the ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 14, 2022
“Out in Harrisburg, it’s fairly common,” said state Rep. Tim O’Neal of swanky, invitation-only, off-the-books gatherings of lobbyists and legislators....
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 03, 2022
There’s a reason people repeat the adage that “half a loaf is better than none,” coined in 1546 in John Heywood’s collection of English proverbs. It i...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 28, 2022
There usually is nothing politicians love better than their moments of benevolent generosity. Legislators who opposed a program they deemed a pork pro...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 07, 2022
A week into the state’s new fiscal year and Pennsylvania still didn’t have a state budget. Once again, lawmakers blew off the deadline, even though it...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 06, 2022
When an appellate court on Thursday shot down the Wolf administration’s plan to impose tolls on nine major highway bridges, it added urgency to the ne...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 24, 2022
FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — It doesn’t seem like it now, with the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade reversal roiling the nation. But we may someday look back ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 21, 2022
State legislators addicted to easy money long ago rolled over for casino operators who claimed that they couldn’t make money, and provide the state go...
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 13, 2022
Think about it this way: If Justice Samuel Alito gets his way and the Trumpist Supreme Court majority voids Roe v. Wade, many states will be forced to...
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
Apr 07, 2022
The region’s Republican legislators are praising a Commonwealth Court ruling that stalls Gov. Tom Wolf’s enrollment of Pennsylvania in the Regional Gr...
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 09, 2022
As Gov. Tom Wolf proposed a new budget Tuesday that would mitigate the government’s inequitable education funding, legislative Republicans continued t...
News, PA State News
Jan 27, 2022
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — A bill proposing an amendment to the Pennsylvania constitution that would limit abortions is making its way through Harrisburg, p...
News, PA State News
Dec 28, 2021
READING (TNS) — The surging inflation that has run rampant across the nation hasn’t been bad for everyone. Pennsylvania state legislators saw a $5,000...
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...
