Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 27, 2022
Like the Afghan Adjustment Act that we lament, the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act also fell out of the Senate’s $1.7 trilli...
News, PA State News
Dec 23, 2022
WASHINGTON (TNS) — For close to two years, John Fetterman was a political celebrity starring in one of the nation’s most closely watched — and well fu...
News, PA State News
Nov 28, 2022
HARRISBURG — When John Fetterman goes to Washington in January as one of the Senate’s new members, he’ll bring along an irreverent style from Pennsylv...
News, PA State News
Nov 17, 2022
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Facing a dramatically different political landscape than Republicans had expected, with the possibility of Democrats in control of ...
News
Sep 30, 2022
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and a group of Senate Republicans is demanding an explanation from the Justice Department and FBI for the...
News
Sep 30, 2022
WASHINGTON — It’s been seven years since laws passed to forbid school districts from “passing the trash” — allowing educators accused of sexual miscon...
News, PA State News
Sep 14, 2022
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — As if the national spotlight on the race wasn’t bright enough, the stakes of the U.S. Senate contest in Pennsylvania were raised a ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 07, 2022
John Fetterman has been in elected politics for nearly 20 years, and last spring was on the cusp of taking the Democratic nomination in a very winnabl...
Business, News, PA State News
Jul 28, 2022
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Sens. Pat Toomey and Kyrsten Sinema together have introduced legislation that they say would simplify small personal purchases, lik...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 28, 2022
DENVER (TNS) — When Democrats candidly assess the party’s prospects for November, their responses range from bad to awful to curled up and whimpering ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 08, 2022
In the immortal words of Yogi Berra, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” Even so, I’m willing to go on record as saying peo...
News, PA State News
Jul 01, 2022
WASHINGTON — Thursday, U.S. Senate Aging Committee Chairman Bob Casey, D-PA, led a bipartisan group of Senators in sending a letter to the U.S. Depart...
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...
News, PA State News
May 10, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Abortion rights activists who staged a protest outside the Harrisburg office of U.S. Sen. Bob Casey on Tuesday quickly found their ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 29, 2022
Maybe I’ve been fooled, but my inclination is to say confirm her. Confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson as a Supreme Court justice because, during Senate hear...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 25, 2022
Members of Congress have shown enormous compassion for the besieged nation of Ukraine, approving more than $13 billion in aid this month. Since the Ru...
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 14, 2022
This much is certain: America’s political parties are in transition. What is uncertain is what they are evolving into, and whether the changes now und...
News
Feb 04, 2022
HARRISBURG — A Republican inquiry into Pennsylvania’s 2020 presidential election inspired by former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of electi...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 18, 2022
After months of wrangling, the U.S. Senate plans to vote this week on an ambitious Democratic bill on voting rights. The bill is already doomed. Senat...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 14, 2022
Proclaiming himself “tired of being quiet,” President Biden Tuesday proposed retiring the filibuster — the 60-vote threshold for getting almost anythi...
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...
