Opinion

Pa. lawmakers should do the people’s business
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 25, 2025
LANCASTER (TNS) — Despite state lawmakers' insistence "a few weeks ago that a budget deal was as near as a few days away," the Pennsylvania Senate and...
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Other Voices: Not worth the tradeoff
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 24, 2025
It is hard for me to believe that McKean County would let a foreign company come in and destroy nearly 700 acres of undeveloped land for 30 temporary ...
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The hidden costs behind your electricity bill
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By REP. MIKE ARMANINI 
Sep 24, 2025
As Pennsylvania families continue to grapple with rising electricity bills, many are left wondering:  If natural gas prices are low and generation cos...
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Courts check Trump on research cuts
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 24, 2025
The Trump administration is pushing hard on major issues of academic freedom in universities, using federal funding as a cudgel. On Monday, U.S. Distr...
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Trump’s H-1B visa gamble could protect US jobs
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By PATRICIA LOPEZ Bloomberg Opinion 
Sep 24, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — President Donald Trump is taking yet another gamble on immigration, betting that he can force companies to compete for skilled Americ...
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How Erika Kirk memorialized her late husband
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By DAVID M. DRUCKER Bloomberg Opinion 
Sep 23, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — Imagine your most cherished political figure was also your cultural north star and pastoral life coach. Now imagine he was felled by ...
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8,750+ employees outearn U.S. president
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 23, 2025
The president of the United States has the most important government job in the country, but even with a $400,000 salary, he is far from the highest p...
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Could Pa. embrace its potential as nation’s AI capital?
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By GUY CIARROCCHI RealClearPennsylvania 
Sep 23, 2025
Pennsylvania could be the national leader in artificial intelligence and data centers. Over the years, we missed our opportunity with coal, oil, and s...
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A family discovers the West and its weather
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 23, 2025
NEDAR INTERIOR, S.D. — I'm writing this on my phone around 2 a.m. inside a Coleman four-person tent pitched on the edge of the endless prairie within ...
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America’s virtual civil war
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By NOLAN FINLEY The Detroit News 
Sep 21, 2025
DETROIT (TNS) — The most prevalent guessing game on social media is “Who killed Charlie Kirk?” Not who fired the bullet that ended the conservative ac...
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How will the Shapiro-Garrity match play out?
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By CHRISTOPHER NICHOLAS RealClearPennsylvania 
Sep 21, 2025
Two-term GOP state Treasurer Stacy Garrity officially entered the race for governor in late August and Pennsylvania’s Republican Party will soon endor...
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Other Voices: A Lament
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 21, 2025
My joy is gone, grief is upon me, my heart is sick. For my country is no longer a beacon of light onto the world. It has rebuked the principles of fre...
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Other Voices: Another sad day
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 19, 2025
It was another sad day, Sept. 10, when Charlie Kirk was shot at his event in Utah. A Christian, family man, and all-around good guy, Charlie was a res...
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Vets’ hospital equipment missing
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 19, 2025
The Veterans Health Administration has lost an estimated 5% of its reusable medical equipment worth at least $211 million — including exam tables, com...
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Be wary of easily gauging Trump’s popularity
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By DAVID M. DRUCKER Bloomberg Opinion 
Sep 19, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — President Donald Trump is not as popular as he claims. But neither is he as unpopular as his opponents might like to think. That’s th...
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‘The (WPSU) news devastated me’
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By ROB TORNOE The Philadelphia Inquirer 
Sep 18, 2025
STATE COLLEGE (TNS) — A public media organization in a university town in central Pennsylvania is set to be the first in the country to go dark after ...
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W.Pa. should have a National Park
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 18, 2025
Pittsburgh anchors one of the most naturally beautiful, and recreationally attractive, regions of the United States. Yet Western Pennsylvania doesn't ...
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Veterans’ hospital equipment is missing
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 17, 2025
The Veterans Health Administration has lost an estimated 5% of its reusable medical equipment worth at least $211 million — including exam tables, com...
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Talk to — not over — each other
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By DEB WUETHRICH 
Sep 17, 2025
I can’t believe what I’m seeing with my own eyes, hearing with my own ears. Some in this country, the United States of America, are celebrating the as...
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