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HARRISBURG — Misguided and out-of-touch government policies have driven inflation to historic highs across the Commonwealth and the country. Members o...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The state Department of Environmental Protection’s first update to its environmental justice policy in nearly 20 years is drawing r...

Polls, regardless of the subject, never are definitive. Even when well-crafted and accurate, a poll is a snapshot of the moment in which it is conduct...

The stories from Shanghai, a city of 25 million entering its fourth week of COVID-19 lockdown, have been harrowing. Millions have been confined to the...

Fourteen Pennsylvania counties are currently part of the Law Enforcement Treatment Initiative (LETI), a program launched by Attorney General Josh Shap...

When I first started talking about legalizing adult-use marijuana, I got the expected question from constituents, friends, and colleagues: How could I...

DETROIT (TNS) — The saying “People have the right to their own opinion but not to their own facts” is a quick and smug way to shut down debate. The pr...

Almost everybody wants to be seen as embracing science. That’s true whether they are arguing to take masks off or leave them on, or whether they’re pu...

As expected, three Commonwealth Court judges recently overturned a sensible Philadelphia ordinance requiring people in that gun-violence-plagued city ...

A recent Rasmussen Reports poll revealed a significant percentage of the public agrees with punitive actions for people who decline COVID-19 vaccines,...

For anyone who believes that America’s elite institutions of higher learning are taken far too seriously — and I count myself among the believers — th...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — Pennsylvania state police and Gov. Tom Wolf’s office are reviewing recommendations from a citizens’ advisory subcommittee to end pro...

Bradford’s Main Street pear trees are beautiful. They are delicate, with slim trunks and plentiful branches. Their flowers are a blizzard of snowflake...

NEWPORT NEWS, V.A. — In advance of conference play, the Atlantic 10 has revised its COVID forfeiture policy. In a previously scheduled athletic direct...

The U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, is setting out to remove the word “squaw” from the names of all federal lands. On Nov. 19, she issued...

At times, you might have been forgiven for thinking that oral arguments over the Dobbs case were being held before the Health and Human Services Commi...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — When I called to schedule an annual well-check appointment for my son, I was told that he would need to wear a mask in the o...

If the biggest news is what’s not being talked about, then my candidate for the most neglected story would be President Joe Biden’s plan for $3.5 tril...

PORT ALLEGANY — During the annual fall meeting of the McKean-Potter Farm Bureau Tuesday at the Veterans Memorial Home, members discussed and approved ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — When the story of the COVID-19 pandemic is written, it will need to include several chapters — perhaps several volumes — about the...