opinion

If Arizona legislators were being perfectly candid, they would have labeled their so-called Religious Freedom Restoration Act precisely what it was, t...

The ice skating season at the Callahan Park rink ended on Sunday. For 60 bucks, I must have skated 30 times, a screaming bargain. The facility is clea...

WASHINGTON — One hundred years after a spark in Central Europe ignited a conflagration from which the world has not yet recovered and from which Europ...

Like watching the demise of a former heavyweight champ, the end of America unfolds. Like a fighter who has lost the dedication and training needed to ...

HARRISBURG (AP) — A major challenge facing Gov. Tom Corbett as he tries to get a 2014-15 budget approved is figuring out what changes can pass the Leg...

WASHINGTON — President Obama’s new outreach initiative to help at-risk boys of color — “My Brother’s Keeper” — is cause for cheer. It isn’t that we ha...

WASHINGTON — The evidence accumulates that the Republican Party is sobering up — cotton-mouthed and slightly disoriented — from its recent ideological...

WASHINGTON — “Blah, blah, blah, blah,” said the speaker of the House. Ohio Republican John Boehner, drawing out the words in a tone of ennui, was spea...

There is a very good reason why the freedom of speech, and of the press, from government intrusion is delineated in the very first amendment to the Co...

WASHINGTON — The many jaundiced assessments of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on the fifth anniversary of its enactment were understandabl...

WASHINGTON — This town can get pretty wound up when a politician misbehaves. Given some of the reactions to Bobby Jindal’s off-script remarks Monday, ...

Two headlines in the Feb. 18 Era were at best misleading if not patently false, i.e., “White House stimulus bill was good for economy” — if you read n...

Barely two days after Joaquin “El Chapo” (Spanish for “Shorty”) Guzman Loera’s arrest, Entertainment Weekly polled its readers as to who should play t...

I would like to state the facts and hold the McKean County Commissioners accountable for their decision to ask Larry Norton — my husband — to leave. L...

The federal government and several state governments have begun a push for a new — and potentially creepy — way to tax drivers to pay for their use of...

As a resident of McKean County, I would like to express my concerns with the decision of current the Board of Commissioners regarding Larry Norton. I ...

WASHINGTON — In his more than 58 years in Congress, John Dingell has never been known to mince words. So it was no surprise that the 87-year-old Michi...

I recently enjoyed watching a taping of Pa. Game Commission testimony to the Pa. House of Representatives Fish and Game Committee chaired by our local...

The “biggest problems that we’re facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go...

WASHINGTON — Each of the GPS satellites that allow me to navigate to a new restaurant carries an atomic clock that needs to be accurate in order to tr...