Opinion, Сolumns
May 15, 2025
Pennsylvania’s latest national rankings are not just embarrassing — they’re a policy indictment. But for Republicans, they also offer something else: ...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 14, 2025
It is somewhat bewildering to watch the Republican Party morph into an economically left-wing party without anyone really caring. But that’s what is c...
Local News, PA State News
May 13, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — After years of opposing such a measure, Pennsylvania Democrats are poised on Tuesday to allow a vote in the state House on a bill t...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 13, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) —Pennsylvania'sbiggest race this election year won't be on the primary ballot. The candidates won't have political parties listed. An...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 12, 2025
So the big recent exposé on Sen. John Fetterman in New York Magazine has many Republicans trying to excuse his erratic behavior by claiming his Senate...
National News, News, PA State News
May 08, 2025
(TNS)—One of Donald Trump’s biggest and most controversial Pennsylvania-based supporters, has assumed the top job at the National Rifle Association, a...
Local News, News, PA State News
May 08, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — The state House late Wednesday afternoon gave final approval to a bill to legalize recreational marijuana in Pennsylvania following...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 08, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — The impact of political landslides and the resulting mandates wear off, even when they are substantial. It will certainly happen wh...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 08, 2025
From 1976 to 2012, politicians took the phrase “political party” a bit too literally by using taxpayer funds to help pay for the stages, confetti, bal...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 07, 2025
Debates over entitlement programs bring out the worst in elected officials, who are typically more concerned with political survival than addressing d...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 06, 2025
Our elected state and federal officials take an oath of office, many with their hand on a Bible. Common in these oaths is a venerated commitment to pr...
National News, News, PA State News
May 05, 2025
HARRISBURG — In the purple Keystone State, thousands of working people turned up to the Pennsylvania Farm Show complex on Friday to hear Vermont Sen. ...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 01, 2025
DETROIT (TNS) — Americans knew exactly what they would get when they electedDonald Trumppresident last November. And now, to quote Mencken, they're ge...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 30, 2025
The new Pennsylvania GOP chairman, state Sen. Greg Rothman, was elected on a platform that can be described as: “Let’s make Pennsylvania Florida.” In ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 25, 2025
There’s a lot of disagreement on higher education these days. One exception to all the discord, at least so far, are Pell Grants — a program that is e...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 22, 2025
It appears that good news keeps coming for Pennsylvania’s Republicans. Recently released data reveal a subtle but significant trend: Republicans are e...
News, PA State News
Apr 22, 2025
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Pennsylvania Republican incumbent congressional lawmakers have dominated fundraising in the first quarter of 2025, according to c...
Local News, News, PA State News
Apr 21, 2025
HARRISBURG — As the number of independent voters grows, there is broad bipartisan support among Pennsylvania voters for allowing the state’s 1.4 milli...
Headlines, Local News, News, ...
Apr 18, 2025
U.S. Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson says no one should ever have expected President Donald Trump to embark on his second administration with “soft diplomacy...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 18, 2025
President Donald Trump has done it again. Never one for subtly, he has elected officials, the media, and international officials all talking about tar...
Business, Local News, News
May 16, 2025
Two local oil purchasers have decreased the price they will pay for Penn grade crude oil. Effective Thursday, American Refining Group and Ergon Oil Pu...
Headlines, Local News, News, ...
May 16, 2025
Tuesday is the primary election. This year, many of the offices up for election have no candidates on the ballot, meaning write-in votes are likely to...
Local News, News
May 16, 2025
OLEAN, N.Y. — Bradford, Pa., native Tonie Westlake describes balancing school, work and her personal life as “pure chaos.” It’s understandable. In add...
News, Round the Square
May 16, 2025
IVY: “Leaves of three, let them be.” We’ve likely all heard that old saying about poison ivy. Farmers Almanac Editor Peter Geiger wrote an important a...
Headlines, Local News, News, ...
May 16, 2025
(Editor’s note: Additional elections coverage can be found on page A-3 of today’s edition. Potter County elections information appears in today’s Clas...
