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No precise estimate is available, but after watching an excess of cable television programming lately (call it my personal penance for living through ...

Civil asset forfeiture, a process by which government is allowed to seize the property of Americans without even needing to charge them with a crime, ...

The winter avalanche has arrived. All those holiday catalogs vying for space with bills in our mailboxes. Thus, it is time to put grievances aside and...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — My wife and I had a discussion last week that I suspect many families are having. Should we pull our son from in-person classes beca...

Ronald Reagan said once, “If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” Update that for modern times as...

Losing a presidential election isn’t easy for any candidate to absorb. ”There are times when all I want to do is scream into a pillow,” Hillary Clinto...

Pennsylvania colleges are facing tough financial choices in the face of declining enrollments, catalyzed by COVID-19. Indiana University of Pennsylvan...

Political observers frequently condemn the toxic partisanship that seems to have gripped our nation, but there is something potentially worse. A bipar...

A new Pope Francis documentary, “Francesco,” has certainly commanded some attention. Longtime pope followers like me know to take the hubbub with a gr...

WASHINGTON — Everyone can see President Donald Trump’s rallies. In the final days of the campaign, he is jetting from swing state to swing state, draw...

The Russians haven’t loomed so large as a sinister hand influencing the course of American society since the Red Scares of the 20th century. Then, it ...

Now dragging into its fifth month, the back-and-forth over a new pandemic relief package is enough to give anyone whiplash. It is also a slap in the f...

The state budget crunch caused by COVID-19 will force us to make hard choices. One choice that isn’t hard? The need to continue investing in our state...

Medicare Advantage, a program of competing private health plans for Medicare beneficiaries, is breaking records for enrollment, health plan choice and...

HARRISBUR G (TNS) — In the past three months, I have spent many hours reviewing data on several State’s Department of Health websites. Principally, ho...

“Burn it down” is rarely a wise or prudent sentiment. A cadre of Republican opponents of President Donald Trump is nonetheless calling for a purifying...

Chris Wallace of Fox News got justifiably positive reviews for his persistent questioning of President Donald Trump in a long interview that aired on ...

The cost of electricity is having significant, negative effects on the working class and poor. And recent court and regulatory decisions are likely to...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Pennsylvania Sen. Doug Mastriano has been taking to Facebook Live to voice his displeasure with the Wolf administration’s actions t...

ALLEGANY — Allegany-Limestone High School graduates of the class of 2020 were told Friday that America is facing a crisis that, if allowed to continue...