Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 08, 2022
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (TNS) — Put aside all the funny memes of Sen. Josh Hawley running. Could it be that the soon-to-be senior senator from Missouri is vyin...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 02, 2022
The dismantling of CNN as the Democrats’ leading network could be on the way with layoffs and cutbacks putting the once-dominant media outlet in decli...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 03, 2022
When “journalist” Gene Lyons writes that the midterms are “Much ado about nothing” I wonder: On which planet does he live? Does he have any idea about...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 06, 2022
There is a consensus that the Democratic Party is in trouble with midterm elections seven months away. The polls say it, the issues say it and history...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 11, 2022
Many conservatives cheered Elon Musk’s recent recognition as Time’s “Person of the Year,” especially since Musk has been outspoken in refuting pandemi...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 14, 2021
The difference between genius and stupidity, someone once said, is that genius has its limits. That’s the message for the Democratic party, which incr...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 23, 2021
Republican politicians can be forgiven for thinking that the GOP is Trump’s world and they only live in it at his sufferance. He not only survived Jan...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 25, 2021
Conservatives, Republicans and Trump supporters should start licking their chops in anticipation, because in the very near future the spectacle long w...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 22, 2021
It took nearly 3 1/2 months for the District of Columbia medical examiner’s office to announce a cause of death for Capitol Police Officer Brian Sickn...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 17, 2021
Left-wingers have always had a knack for activism. In the 1960s and ‘70s, they flooded the streets, demanding civil rights and protesting the Vietnam ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 23, 2021
Sparring between Washington and Moscow, a diplomatic, political and military constant since the end of WWII and start of the Cold War, is rightly back...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 18, 2021
Rep. Glenn Thompson, you let me down again. You are my federal representative in Congress. You are supposed to advocate for me. Why didn’t you vote fo...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 25, 2021
Inaugural addresses are meant to be aspirational, so President Joe Biden might as well have doubled down on his call for unity in his address. After t...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 09, 2021
The storming Wednesday of the U.S. Capitol by right-wing radicals, instigated by President Trump earlier in the day, should be a sad event for all Ame...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 08, 2021
Enough is enough. Any last shreds of credibility and dignity that the Trump presidency and its most fervent supporters had were swept away Wednesday b...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 17, 2020
HARRISBURG (TNS) — It’s decision time for GOP leaders. Will they continue to support Donald Trump, or will they move past him? They’ve faced this deci...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 16, 2020
If there’s one thing that the Hunter Biden laptop episode has proven, it is that former directors of the Central Intelligence Agency aren’t as adept a...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 11, 2020
State Rep. Martin Causer’s lack of action on COVID-19 is astounding. Causer is a placeholder, an empty suit rubber-stamping anything the Republicans s...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 10, 2020
One of the more appalling moments in the recent history of the House of Representatives occurred recently in the Capitol Visitor Center. Speaker Nancy...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 07, 2020
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s specious claim that Joe Biden won the presidency through massive voter fraud has been shot down in multiple federal cou...
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...
Local Sports
June 14, 2025
The annual Allegheny -100 Hiking Challenge (A-100) was held last weekend. It is an event where hikers can choose to hike 100, 75, 50 or 25 miles along...
Local News, Local Sports, Outdoors
June 14, 2025
Summer is one of my favorite times of year. I love fishing and coaching baseball. However, what I love to do most in the summertime is setting up trai...
Lifestyles
June 14, 2025
DEAR ABBY: I am a mother of six and a grandma to four. We are a close family and enjoy each other's company. My mom is nearly 80. For reasons I could ...
