Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 25, 2023
NEW YORK (TNS) — In a world where war is waging, disease is ravaging, poverty is crippling and homelessness is out of control, does it really matter a...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 25, 2023
Pennsylvania state legislators’ salaries cost at least $25.3 million per year for only about 50 days of session, according to The Philadelphia Inquire...
Daily Headlines, Local News, News, ...
Sep 20, 2023
HARRISBURG — Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration said starting Tuesday it is making it easier for someone to register to vote when they are getting or ...
Daily Headlines, Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 18, 2023
I first covered U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney in 2012, when he was “former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney,” then running for president. At the time, he was so...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 10, 2023
To borrow a device from the recent Republican candidates' debate: Raise your hand if you think that lobbyists influence politicians, officeholders and...
Local News, News, PA State News
Sep 09, 2023
HARRISBURG (TNS) — The state is no closer to giving Pitt its proposed $166 million for fiscal 2024 than it was in June when a funding bill failed to p...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 08, 2023
As the remains of Hurricane Idalia headed out to sea after lashing Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas, irresponsible members of Congress threatened a ...
Daily Headlines, Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 04, 2023
WARREN — Saturday, Sept. 3, was the 59th anniversary of the federal Wilderness Act of 1964 championed by Pennsylvania’s own Howard Zahniser. In last y...
News, Round the Square
Aug 31, 2023
MORE: We found some interesting news stories in the microfilm for the M’Kean Orbit, and were eager to share them. In 1849, it seems some area politici...
Editorials, Opinion
Aug 26, 2023
It was Aug. 24, 2021, that, in the wake of Andrew Cuomo’s meltdown, Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul became Gov. Hochul, to shape her own record and legacy in Ne...
News, PA State News
Aug 22, 2023
HARRISBURG (TNS) — State Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward has called an unusual August voting session for next week to deal with unfinished piece...
Daily Headlines, Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 22, 2023
If it “got late early” in the old majestic Yankee Stadium with its long shadows, as the famous Yogi Berra quote had it, it’s gotten late before about ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 17, 2023
Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward, R-Westmoreland, made the right call in bringing members of the upper chamber back to Harrisburg so...
Nation & World, News, PA State News
Aug 14, 2023
WASHINGTON (AP) — David McCormick had a clear explanation for why his fellow Republican, Dr. Mehmet Oz, lost a critical Pennsylvania Senate seat last ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 06, 2023
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Gov. Josh Shapiro's signing last week of a $45.45 billion spending bill erased growing concerns about delays in funding for schools...
Local News, News
Aug 04, 2023
HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) announced that, as a result of the passed Commonwealth Budget, the maximum PA...
Local News, News, PA State News
Aug 04, 2023
HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania’s overdue state budget moved closer to completion Thursday after Senate Republican leaders summoned their colleagues ba...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 02, 2023
T he Pittsburgh Steelers are back in training camp . The team descended on Saint Vincent College in Unity on Wednesday prepared to settle in for the l...
Local News, News, Online Features, ...
Jul 29, 2023
WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania’s senators are lauding measures passed as part of the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, saying the bill i...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 27, 2023
All four Democratic and Republican caucuses in the state House and Senate have staff lawyers, some of whom are paid more than $200,000 a year. Yet law...
Local News
June 16, 2025
Bradford Community Pride Lions Club announced the winners of its fifth annual Kids Fishing Derby held Saturday at Marilla Reservoir. Winners included...
Local News
June 16, 2025
VFW Post 212 and Frances Sherman VFW Auxiliary announced its 2025 Reba Y. Maben & William “Mr. Bill” Runyan Scholarship winners are Evan D. Confer and...
Local News
Suicide prevention training aimed at saving lives
Continuing education credits available
June 16, 2025
EMPORIUM —A Penn State Extension in-person workshop will provide evidence-based training aimed at saving lives and reducing suicidal behaviors. The wo...
Business, Nation & World, PA State News
June 16, 2025
WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania Sens. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., and John Fetterman, D-Pa., introduced S. 2044, which would move the Department of Energy’s Offi...
Business, Local News, Nation & World, ...
June 16, 2025
WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump will attend Sen. Dave McCormick’s inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon Univer...
Crime, PA State News
June 16, 2025
HARRISBURG – Sen. Scott Hutchinson,R-21, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and prime sponsor of Senate Bill 719, announced the successful passa...
