Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 22, 2021
Joe Manchin and London Breed have nothing in common. One is an old-school Democratic senator from West Virginia, surviving and thriving in an increasi...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 18, 2021
President Joe Biden has the misfortune to be president at the moment when corporate America has decided to get together and gouge American consumers. ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 29, 2021
Monday marked the 58th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on the streets of Dallas. It’s time for the government to release...
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
Nov 17, 2021
Joe Biden was never exactly a colossus bestriding the Earth, but he’s been getting smaller by the day. A Washington Post poll over the weekend suggest...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 22, 2021
As the nation’s political press obsess over the fate of the administration’s Build Back Better proposal, nothing less than the ultimate success or fai...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 22, 2021
President Joe Biden is sending a team of show horses to the UN climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, next month to show the world that the U.S. is a le...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 18, 2021
Here is where the Old Contrarian (me) seeks to diminish the importance of what Old Yeller (not the 1956 children’s book, but the 45th president of the...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 29, 2021
How does a stupid and ridiculous lie come to be embraced and promulgated by top officials of the United States government? Well, as it turns out, it’s...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 23, 2021
President Joe Biden sounded all the right notes in his Tuesday address to the United Nations General Assembly. He spoke on the need for global coopera...
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
Aug 05, 2021
In his book, “A Magician Among the Spirits,” Harry Houdini relates the story of the life and career of a sketchy spiritualist named Daniel Dunglas Hom...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 05, 2021
I wrote recently about an Afghan human rights activist who ran shelters for abused women but was forced by Taliban advances to flee her home. She is n...
Сolumns
Jul 31, 2021
Teddy Roosevelt fervently believed that the president of the United States should be at the center of the political universe, constantly attracting at...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 29, 2021
President Joe Biden declared on Monday that the U.S. combat mission in Iraq would cease by the end of this year. But he also made clear that U.S. forc...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 26, 2021
RIP, Trade Promotion Authority. The law that allowed Congress to fast-track consideration of trade agreements expired on July 1. Trade agreements will...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 21, 2021
Rate the U.S.-Russia summit in Geneva as a success for President Joe Biden. If you want to understand why, just look at what Vladimir Putin said back ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 21, 2021
On June 19, 1865, 2,000 Union troops marched into Galveston Bay, Texas. They carried a message for the 250,000 enslaved people of the Confederate stat...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 17, 2021
All sorts of information is now spilling out about how former president Donald Trump’s Department of Justice sought to investigate leaks related to th...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 13, 2021
Recently, former President Donald Trump and people around him have been dropping more and more hints that he will run for president in 2024. “I look f...
Local News, Nation & World, PA State News
August 1, 2025
(TNS) — While there’s still quite the chunk of time before tax season rolls around again, here’s something you should know. The IRS is about to implem...
Business, Local News, PA State News
August 1, 2025
UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State Extension will offer a three-day workshop for those interested in learning how to dry hardwood lumber to maximize product...
Business, Local News
August 1, 2025
ERIE — National Fuel Gas Distribution Corp. has submitted to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission its annual adjustment to gas supply charges to...
Local News, PA State News
August 1, 2025
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) will host a webinar to guide college students and their families in filing th...
Local News, PA State News
August 1, 2025
HARRISBURG — Effective Friday, Dr. Laura R. Dimino is serving as the interim executive director of the Center for Rural Pennsylvania. Prior to this ap...
Local News
August 1, 2025
COUDERSPORT — The Potter County Drug and Alcohol and Mental Health departments will hold a grand opening for its Recovery and Resource Center from 2 t...
