News, PA State News
Jan 08, 2023
As Republican infighting debilitates Washington, lawmakers at some U.S. statehouses have managed to launch sessions complicated by similar GOP partisa...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 08, 2023
ALLENTOWN (TNS) — Pennsylvania has a new speaker of the state House, Rep. Mark Rozzi of Berks County. Rozzi, a Democrat who is best known for fighting...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 08, 2023
After Joe Biden visits our nation’s border with Mexico this weekend, his detractors will no longer be able to assert that our president is simply igno...
News, PA State News
Jan 06, 2023
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s new state House speaker declared Friday that no other legislation will be taken up by his chamber until it approves a cons...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 06, 2023
Will Rogers famously said: “I belong to no organized political party. I’m a Democrat.” He would have to dig deeper to find a gibe suitable for today’s...
News, PA State News
Jan 03, 2023
HARRISBURG — The narrowly divided state House of Representatives on Tuesday resolved a logjam over control of the chamber by making its new speaker a ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 03, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Last year, as congressional elections approached, pundits offered a bold prediction: November would bring a “red wave,” a Republica...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 02, 2023
The 118th Congress convenes today with each party holding a slim majority in one chamber. In the Senate, a Democratic coalition enjoys a 51-49 advanta...
News, PA State News
Dec 22, 2022
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner says the charges on which he is to be tried before the Pennsylvania Senate next mont...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 19, 2022
During the run-up to the 2016 election, Donald Trump used Twitter brilliantly. He had a talent for writing messages that were interesting or outrageou...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 18, 2022
So far, Donald Trump is having the worst campaign launch since Beto O’Rourke. Like almost everything else he’s done lately, his early announcement of ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 15, 2022
BOSTON (TNS) — The two major political parties’ long hold on America could be finally starting to slip, setting the stage for an exodus of disgruntled...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 14, 2022
Republican lawmakers will take control of the House of Representatives on Jan. 3. That means that, among many other things, they will take control of ...
Editorials
Dec 14, 2022
In a rare bit of good news out of the U.S. Supreme Court, there are signs that three of the court’s six conservatives are poised to join its three lib...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 11, 2022
Parties fall apart; the center cannot hold. (We’ve sure seen that.) Mere anarchy is loosed upon the political world. (Have a look at the morning paper...
News, PA State News
Dec 08, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Pennsylvania House Democrats’ claim that they hold the majority in the 203-member chamber in an ongoing power struggle has been rej...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 08, 2022
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (TNS) — Put aside all the funny memes of Sen. Josh Hawley running. Could it be that the soon-to-be senior senator from Missouri is vyin...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 08, 2022
This holiday season, working families across America are struggling through the worst bout of inflation in decades. A typical household has lost more ...
News, PA State News
Dec 08, 2022
HARRISBURG — Donald Trump’s attacks on fellow Republican David McCormick contributed to the former hedge fund manager’s loss in Pennsylvania’s Senate ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 07, 2022
What is former President Donald Trump thinking? On Saturday, he posted this statement on his social media network, Truth Social: “So, with the revelat...
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...
Local Sports
June 14, 2025
The annual Allegheny -100 Hiking Challenge (A-100) was held last weekend. It is an event where hikers can choose to hike 100, 75, 50 or 25 miles along...
