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(Editor’s note: This commentary by the late George P. Evans of Bradford originally appeared in The Era on Nov. 11, 2020. His family requested that the...

“I voted for Obama twice and Hillary once. But I’ll tell you, I’m going to vote for that knucklehead Donald Trump again.” My Uber driver made that dec...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Rick Saccone could have been, and in his mind should have been, Doug Mastriano’s running mate. Instead the Franklin County state se...

HONORING OUR VETERANS: Today, July 27, both America and South Korea celebrate National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day — to commemorate the peace tr...

University of Pittsburgh at Bradford sophomore Gretchen Henneman is balancing her schoolwork as an early level education major with her duties as Unit...

Lucky countries have celebrations that remind their citizens of what binds them together — think Memorial Day or the Fourth of July. Unlucky countries...

Lucky countries have celebrations that remind their citizens of what binds them together — think Memorial Day or the Fourth of July. Unlucky countries...

Divorce usually isn’t a good idea, and that’s especially true of a nearly 250-year-old continental nation. A cadre of apocalyptic writers on the right...

KANE — There are 108 names memorialized at Memorial Point at Evergreen Park. Those names are the local “fallen heroes” that the borough honored at Mon...

“We the People. …” That phrase has endured for 244 years as the pillar of the U.S. Constitution, which has stood as America’s triumphant experiment in...

After a bruising and often bitter election cycle, how does a divided nation heal? The answer involves something much harder than campaigning or champi...

More than two centuries after an event, it’s easy to lose track of what we’re celebrating. How would the nation’s Founding Fathers commemorate the 242...

FLAG DAY: The Continental Congress first approved “Stars and Stripes” as our nation’s theme 240 years ago, on June 14, 1777. Since that time, the flag...

WASHINGTON -- Though Republicans profess to despise Big Government, especially the federal kind, it seems that what they really don't like is Democrac...

DuBOIS – U.S. Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Howard, Pa., will have a prime seat when Donald Trump is sworn in as the next president of the United States...

Much of the political commentary over this past week has been bleak and despairing for the future of our fragile republic. It has assumed the worst ab...