presidencies of the united states

Education spending up, grades down
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 03, 2025
The Department of Education’s employee headcount fell by 13.9% between 2000 and 2024 but its spending increased by 749% during that time, according to...
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Democrats now the party of the bureaucracy
Opinion, Сolumns
NOLAN FINLEY The Detroit News 
Mar 03, 2025
DETROIT (TNS) — Democrats lost the fall election by allowing themselves to be tagged as the party of inflation and illegal immigration. They seem boun...
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Battered Democrats hope to regain their focus
Opinion, Сolumns
CARL P. LEUBSDORF The Dallas Morning News 
Feb 20, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Like everyone else in Washington, Democratic Party leaders have been stunned by the speed and the breadth of President Donald Trump...
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Politico and the federal government
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 18, 2025
The White House subscribes to Politico Pro, a premium service meant to inform the public what is happening inside the White House, spending $16 millio...
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Welcome home, Marc Fogel
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 14, 2025
On Aug. 14, 2021, Russian authorities arrested Oakmont native Marc Fogel, a teacher who had done several stints educating American ex-pats in Moscow, ...
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No, DOGE isn’t ‘unprecedented’
Opinion, Сolumns
HANS VON SPAKOVSKY and SETH LUCAS 
Feb 12, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Like spoiled children finally told “no” by their parents, bureaucrats and beneficiaries of wasteful government largesse are howling...
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Warren increasingly unhinged, irrelevant
Opinion, Сolumns
JOE BATTENFELD Boston Herald 
Feb 11, 2025
BOSTON (TNS) — Elizabeth Warrenis losing it, reduced to becoming an irrelevant complainer who does nothing for herMassachusettsconstituents while rail...
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US aid can’t be above scrutiny
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 05, 2025
Donald Trump and Elon Musk have triggered panic in Washington with their efforts to cap the U.S. foreign aid spigot. To the extent that this ignites a...
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Push Trump nominees forward
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 04, 2025
Las Vegas Review-Journal (TNS) The time it takes to confirm a presidential appointee has grown considerably over the past 50 years. Unfortunately,Sena...
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Trump racks up immigration wins
Opinion, Сolumns
VICTOR JOECKS Las Vegas Review-Journal 
Jan 30, 2025
LAS VEGAS (TNS) — PresidentDonald Trumpjust created a new golf shot — theColombia-in-one. Last weekend,the United States attempted to send two C-17s f...
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Taco Inc. locations closed Tuesday, including Bradford’s
Business, Content, Daily Headlines, ...
SARA EDDY FURLONG s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
Jan 28, 2025
Regional news outlets reported Tuesday that authorities in unmarked vehicles were investigating Taco Inc. locations in St. Marys, DuBois and Punxsutaw...
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A tale of two inaugurations
Opinion, Сolumns
FRANK MIELE RealClearPolitics 
Jan 28, 2025
Eight years ago, I was perhaps overly optimistic when I wrote in an editorial for my old newspaper, the Daily Inter Lake, that Donald Trump’s first in...
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