Lifestyles
Jun 19, 2024
NEW PALTZ, N.Y. — Jacob Holmberg of Coudersport, Pa., was named to the SUNY New Paltz dean’s list for the spring 2024 semester. Students must earn at ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 28, 2022
One characteristic of American life distinguishes our country from all other democracies: Our political campaigns are never-ending. The moment one ele...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 09, 2022
For many decades, possessing even a small amount of marijuana could mean big legal trouble. Regardless of whether someone caught with a personal-use a...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 14, 2022
“Out in Harrisburg, it’s fairly common,” said state Rep. Tim O’Neal of swanky, invitation-only, off-the-books gatherings of lobbyists and legislators....
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 31, 2022
Rather unexpectedly, the 117th Congress is shaping up to be one of the most productive in recent memory. A new compromise reached by Sen. Joe Manchin ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 31, 2022
It was four in the afternoon on March 10, 1991, when the first planned explosion of Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons went off at the U.S. weapons dep...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 21, 2022
Conservatives who want an economic policy that supports parents have long been a minority faction within the Republican Party. In 2017, when Republica...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 04, 2022
Pennsylvania property owners need better friends in Harrisburg. On Tuesday, the state House of Representatives passed a bill with the kind of overwhel...
News, PA State News
May 02, 2022
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — It’s a game of numbers for Democrats in Washington who want bold reform on a number of key boilerplate issues. But even if they add...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 10, 2022
President Joe Biden’s administration hasn’t gotten a handle on the desperate crisis at our southern border any more than the administration of Donald ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 15, 2022
Nationwide, local and state politicians often resist reforms to reduce violence committed by police, even though sensible reforms would serve officers...
News, PA State News
Oct 27, 2021
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Criminal justice reform advocates and some state lawmakers have been working to change Pennsylvania’s probation system for years, a...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 01, 2021
Before Gov. Tom Corbett appointed John Wetzel as secretary of the state Department of Corrections in 2011, the job primarily was about operations. But...
Jun 15, 2021
The Democrats’ sprawling voting rights bill, known on Capitol Hill as HR 1, is dead. Officially, the bill is still clinging to life. But Sen. Joe Manc...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 07, 2021
Say the word “gun” and you can instantly divide people. Some want to enact laws and restrictions in hopes of curtailing violent crimes. Some are just ...
Сolumns
Jun 04, 2021
Texas is the latest state to have a big fight over reforming its election laws. Remember that in Georgia, some Democrats — like President Joe Biden — ...
News
May 11, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., will introduce two bipartisan policing reform bills to address the high incidence rate of violence invo...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 24, 2021
America held its breath. ”Guilty.” ”Guilty.” ”Guilty.” And the sigh was released. The verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial confirmed what the country al...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 21, 2021
It’s not 2007 again. But apparently no one has told George W. Bush. To coincide with the release of a book of his paintings of immigrants, “Out of Man...
Local News
Feb 20, 2021
Due to a scheduling conflict, the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford has moved one of its Black History Month panel presentations scheduled for next...
PA State News
June 15, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Brad Hatch grew up near Altoona and started his career as a teacher in the local school district, working his way up to assistant p...
PA State News
June 14, 2025
PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...
Local News, Nation & World
June 14, 2025
Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
June 14, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...
Local Sports
June 14, 2025
BROCKWAY - The 10th Annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football game is slated for the end of the month, and several area players were recognized for t...
Local Sports, Sports
June 14, 2025
(TNS) —As golfers teed off during opening day of this year's 125th U.S. Open Championship, state officials inside of a tent overlooking the course's 1...
