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Detoured from their usual routines and locked out of much of their usual entertainment, Pennsylvanians flocked to the great outdoors at the height of ...

Even though Pennsylvania is among the nation’s foremost centers of high-tech research and development, it still is better known for the legacy industr...

In most parts ofPennsylvania, a look around is all that's necessary to know that the state needs more young people. Now the state government's nonpart...

More than 4% of Pennsylvanians, about 550,000 people, are qualified by the state government to use marijuana to treat pain, anxiety disorders, epileps...

As itinerant millionaires pour money into denigrating one another to impress a small fraction of the state’s population, while ruining television for ...

Polls, regardless of the subject, never are definitive. Even when well-crafted and accurate, a poll is a snapshot of the moment in which it is conduct...

Lack of transparency usually is an element of bad governance, so it’s hardly surprising that the beleaguered Pennsylvania Public School Employees Reti...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The clock is ticking on Pennsylvania lawmakers to complete work on redrawing the state’s congressional districts to meet the Depart...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — I still recall the first thing I did when I got home on Sept. 11, 2001. I hung my flag on my front porch, where it rippled proudly i...

There are a lot of things that Pennsylvania’s government needs to underwrite. There are more than 3,000 schools, 14 state universities and four more s...

It’s impossible to calculate the full impact of the opioid addiction crisis. But it is necessary to put a price on some pharmaceutical manufacturers’ ...

HARRISBURG — State Sen. Chris Dush, R-Brookville, introduced a plan to protect the constitutional rights of law-abiding Pennsylvania firearm owners an...

Jake Corman, the Republican president pro tempore of the state Senate, must be a suspicious guy. Of the untold number of Pennsylvanians who have the e...

PennDOT’s unfolding plan to impose tolls on some bridges — including several on interstate highways in Pennsylvania — undoubtedly will cause consterna...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — With less than two years left in his term, Gov. Tom Wolf is running out of time to implement his agenda. That’s the only reason I ca...

We’ve never seen anything like it, have we — some state governments not just advising people on how to spend Thanksgiving with their families, but dic...

Pennsylvania is staring at a fiscal cliff. It’s easy but perilous to ignore state budget minutiae amid a contentious presidential election. Right now ...

The proposal from state House Republicans to create a Select Committee on Election Integrity, mere weeks before what promises to be a highly contentio...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., joined by 36 of his colleagues, announced that he sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-...

Food is still being produced and there’s plenty of it. But never-before-seen issues in the supply chain need state government intervention before beco...