Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 06, 2022
“I voted for Obama twice and Hillary once. But I’ll tell you, I’m going to vote for that knucklehead Donald Trump again.” My Uber driver made that dec...
News
Sep 05, 2022
WILKES-BARRE (TNS) — President Joe Biden warned on Thursday that “MAGA Republicans” were a threat to democracy. At a rally Saturday evening featuring ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 02, 2022
Joe Biden and Donald Trump are proving that even sworn enemies can cooperate to promote one another’s political interests. President Biden, with his c...
News, PA State News
Aug 31, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Gov. Tom Wolf continues to push for $2,000 stimulus checks for many residents of the state. Though, the Republican-led general asse...
News, Online Features, PA State News
Aug 30, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Several more Republican leaders announced Tuesday that they will go against their political party and support Attorney General Josh...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 30, 2022
The Republican Party only had about a half-century to prepare for the end of Roe v. Wade yet is still scared and confused now that the late, unlamente...
PA State News
Aug 30, 2022
HARRISBURG (AP) — As attorney general, Josh Shapiro went to court repeatedly to defend Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration against legal chall...
News, PA State News
Aug 25, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Support for abortion access among Pennsylvania voters reached an all-time high this month, according to a Franklin and Marshall Col...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 25, 2022
Temporarily anyway, Donald J. Trump resembles the Br’er Rabbit of the Joel Chandler Harris tales: flung into the briar patch by the FBI search of his ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 24, 2022
There has been a surge of optimism among Democrats lately when it comes to November’s midterm elections. The short version of the thinking is: Maybe w...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 22, 2022
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., will wear that “representative” identification just a tad longer, seeing as how she was stomped to smithereens in a recent bi...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 19, 2022
Meanwhile, back at the ranch ... To readers of a certain age who grew up watching cowboy movies on TV, that timeless phrase signals a major plot devel...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 19, 2022
“It’s a slip, not a fall,” Abraham Lincoln said after his loss in his legendary 1858 Illinois Senate contest against Stephen Douglas. Liz Cheney appar...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 16, 2022
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — It’s gotten to the point where even the most obviously nonpartisan issues that Americans ought to be able to address cooperatively...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 12, 2022
Donald Trump has more than $100 million in his political war chest. But he has something even more valuable — an active FBI investigation against him....
News, PA State News
Aug 07, 2022
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Gearing up for the final 100-day stretch before voters decide who wins one of the country’s most crucial U.S. Senate seats, Democra...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 07, 2022
ALLENTOWN (TNS) — Now that the state Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of mail voting, it’s time for critics to stop whining about it and...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 03, 2022
An odd atmosphere has descended on Washington, D.C. At the precise moment the government announced that the economy shrank for the second consecutive ...
News
Aug 02, 2022
HARRISBURG — A wide expansion of mail-in voting in Pennsylvania survived a legal challenge on Tuesday before the state Supreme Court in a case brought...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 02, 2022
My friends have it wrong. I recently reached out to many of them about an effort to combat the intentional efforts by “big lie” candidates to take ove...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
June 16, 2025
Pennsylvania's budget process is a byzantine effort that is critical to the functioning of the commonwealth but largely ignored by the public. The new...
Local News
June 16, 2025
ST. MARYS — Police report a Dagus Mines woman died Saturday as the result of a two-vehicle crash on South St. Marys Street. At approximately 4:45 p.m....
Business, Local News
June 16, 2025
Two local oil purchasers have increased the price they will pay for Penn grade crude oil. Effective Friday, American Refining Group and Ergon Oil Purc...
Nation & World, PA State News
June 15, 2025
UNIVERSITY PARK — Entire regions of trees are disappearing because of invasive pests, disease and a changing climate. The key to their ability to adap...
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...
