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
Dec 23, 2022
On Thursday, Pennsylvania’s U.S. senators reacted to the federal spending bill for Fiscal Year 2023, with U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., in favor, and ou...
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 ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 09, 2022
Every dog has his day, and apparently so does every miserably inadequate president. Joe Biden, who has been out-of-touch, tone-deaf and disturbingly i...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 03, 2022
There’s a reason people repeat the adage that “half a loaf is better than none,” coined in 1546 in John Heywood’s collection of English proverbs. It i...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 02, 2022
Congress has never cared much about truth-in-labeling, but even by its standards, “The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022” is laughably absurd. The deal ...
Business, News, PA State News
Jul 25, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — The 6.3 million visitors to the 26 National Park Service sites in Pennsylvania last year spent an estimated $298 million in the sta...
News
Jul 08, 2022
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A dispute about state funding for the University of Pittsburgh over its use of fetal tissue from elective abortions in research...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 15, 2022
Inflation is likely to be the most powerful issue working for Republicans in this year’s congressional elections. Public concern over it has been risi...
News
Mar 02, 2022
NEW YORK — A judge has rejected an effort by New York’s attorney general to put the National Rifle Association out of business, but will allow her law...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 04, 2022
Prices have been increasing at the fastest rate in decades, but we haven’t been having a debate about inflation. We’ve been having five. We might do a...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 27, 2021
If you’re worried about the direction of the nation, the state of the economy or the sharp rise of price inflation, you’re not alone. A recent Associa...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 22, 2021
“Many of the great disasters of our time have been committed by experts,” the economist Thomas Sowell once said. Looking at the way prices are rapidly...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 12, 2021
As they prepare to spend $1.2 trillion on a bipartisan infrastructure deal, along with a vastly larger sum on a party-line social-policy bill, Democra...
News
Sep 21, 2021
As the U.S. House rushed Tuesday on legislation to fund the government, suspend the federal debt limit and provide disaster and refugee aid, U.S. Glen...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 20, 2021
Most of us agree that tax law should be fair and equitable and that government spending should stay within fiscal means. But when the spending wish li...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 21, 2021
Transparency and accountability come in small steps where the state Legislature is concerned. The recent announcement that the state Senate soon will ...
Business, News
Aug 21, 2021
Pennsylvania spends about $1.1 billion annually on its parks and recreation areas, but that is just $83 per resident, the 10th lowest rate of spending...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 11, 2021
A trillion dollars used to be a lot of money, even in Washington. Now, a trillion-dollar spending bill is a trifle barely worth arguing over and the s...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 03, 2021
So far, the bipartisan infrastructure deal is going through the normal life cycle of such proposals — alive, dead, revived, uncertain. For Republicans...
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...
