opinion

Polio has been nearly eliminated worldwide. In the six-and-a-half decades since my Salk vaccination, I have been unaware of any “socialized medicine” ...

A president’s first 100 days are an arbitrary benchmark, a point of measurement journalists are fond of because it allows us to draw comparisons betwe...

After a year of angry battles over lockdowns, mask mandates and vaccinations, a new front has opened in the coronavirus culture war: vaccine “passport...

In a comeback story for the ages, the U.S. bald eagle population in the lower 48 states has quadrupled in the last 12 years. At its most endangered po...

Fresh, clean water is the very foundation of all life. Without it, nothing — human, plant or animal — can survive. For far too long, our neighbors bot...

Following pandemic news too closely can be an emotional roller coaster, with dire public health warnings immediately followed by hopeful new studies. ...

As our wonderful Washington politicians talk about spending almost $2 trillion on giveaway programs, I thought perhaps "a trillion" could be put into ...

I am writing in response to the commentary by Jay Ambrose in the March 26 edition of The Era. I wholeheartedly agree with Ambrose that President Biden...

When he was running for president in 2016, Donald Trump said he was going to build a 1,000-mile concrete wall, maybe 30 feet high, on the southern bor...

Late last month, after Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley renewed the county mask order and told me he hoped he’d be in a position to lift it by July 4...

Cheyney (Pa.) University is the nation’s oldest historically black university, founded in 1837. I graduated from Cheyney in December 1975. I was part ...

Usually, The Bradford Era has an article informing of increasing COVID-19 cases in McKean County. Cases climb, coverage continues — my question is, Wh...

Now living in what seems to be the era of impeachment, my mind drifts back in recent history. If impeachment is a tool to rid the government of those ...

Donald Trump was the president of Twitter. What radio was to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and TV was to Ronald Reagan, communicating 280 characters at a ...

Judge Merrick Garland is the right person at the right time to be President Joe Biden’s attorney general. If the AP and Politico are correct that he’s...

In the thousands of books certain to be written about President Donald Trump, the first chapters will almost surely begin with the climax, his last da...

The U.S. Capitol is the cathedral of government in the United States. Since 1793, it has been where the laws that shape our nation were baptized. Wher...

Just a concerned resident’s comment, as a former business owner, and being reminded of the continued requests over the years for financial support for...

What an epic failure our country has become. What a sad and horrifying story. And for no good reason. I know this because Charlie Barr, a sweet and ki...

This year’s pandemic-fueled economic downturn has not been felt equally throughout the working population. Rather, it has painfully illustrated that j...