Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 17, 2022
Detoured from their usual routines and locked out of much of their usual entertainment, Pennsylvanians flocked to the great outdoors at the height of ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 25, 2022
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...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 12, 2022
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...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 13, 2022
More than 4% of Pennsylvanians, about 550,000 people, are qualified by the state government to use marijuana to treat pain, anxiety disorders, epileps...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 02, 2022
As itinerant millionaires pour money into denigrating one another to impress a small fraction of the state’s population, while ruining television for ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 24, 2022
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...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 29, 2022
Lack of transparency usually is an element of bad governance, so it’s hardly surprising that the beleaguered Pennsylvania Public School Employees Reti...
News, PA State News
Jan 19, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — The clock is ticking on Pennsylvania lawmakers to complete work on redrawing the state’s congressional districts to meet the Depart...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 14, 2021
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...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 24, 2021
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...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 28, 2021
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’ ...
News
May 11, 2021
HARRISBURG — State Sen. Chris Dush, R-Brookville, introduced a plan to protect the constitutional rights of law-abiding Pennsylvania firearm owners an...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 06, 2021
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...
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 25, 2021
PennDOT’s unfolding plan to impose tolls on some bridges — including several on interstate highways in Pennsylvania — undoubtedly will cause consterna...
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 05, 2021
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...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 01, 2020
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...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 22, 2020
Pennsylvania is staring at a fiscal cliff. It’s easy but perilous to ignore state budget minutiae amid a contentious presidential election. Right now ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 12, 2020
The proposal from state House Republicans to create a Select Committee on Election Integrity, mere weeks before what promises to be a highly contentio...
Local News
Jul 23, 2020
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-...
Local News
Apr 18, 2020
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...
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...
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...
