Breaking News

Letters To Editor

Name for the ages

Dear Editor, I used DuckDuckGo to search for the first settler of Warren, in reference to a recent Our Opinion piece regarding the bridge in the Times Observer. Philip McCoy established the first trading post in the area now known as Warren in 1795. He played a significant role in the establishment of the early settlement. I haven’t researched it completely yet, but I imagine that his trading post was on the banks of the Conewango or Allegheny or at their convergence. Just sending the name of someone who most definitely might be relevant. Jeffrey L. Carlson, Warren

Readers Speak

Praise for process Dear Editor, Thank you to the reassessment board members. I was one of the few Warren County residents who accepted that the reassessment would raise my taxes. We moved here from Lakewood in 2018 where my property taxes were more than three times what we pay in Warren County on a comparable home value. I received my reassessment value and it looked too high. I calculated what I thought the value was based on purchase price and improvements over the past seven years. I compared it to comparable home sales in the area over the past two years and similar home ...

Readers Speak

Sad results Dear Editor, This letter is for anyone out there that hasn’t yet figured out that Donald Trump is a pathological liar and doesn’t care about anybody but himself. If that is you then you haven’t been paying attention or you have a net worth of at least several hundred million dollars and don’t care. If you don’t fit either of those categories then I don’t have an explanation for your apathy. So far in 10 months the Trump administration has become the Trump Regime (government by dictator); they have destroyed our humanitarian aid programs around the world ...

Readers Speak

Divided we fall Dear Editor, I never imagined I’d live to see our once great nation slide so rapidly into such a darkly chaotic place, where our democracy is being twisted into an increasingly authoritarian state with those in power clearly lacking any capacity for empathy, compassion, kindness, or any semblance of genuine caring for those they were elected to serve. Our country, once described as “that shining city on the hill,” is rapidly turning dark — a place where fear, hatred, and cruelty are becoming the norm, like a toxic fog spreading and blocking the light. Our ...

Readers Speak

Closings were ‘wrong’ Dear Editor, This is in response to the recent editorial about re-electing Mary Passinger to the school board. One huge problem is that she and her supporters don’t realize they are wrong. The support for closing schools was not unanimous. These communities did not deserve this. Your opinion says we should not look at the past but focus on the future. I say how can we confidently vote for Passinger? She has been on the board for so long and her and her buddies’ record lead to the school closings. They did nothing to avoid this even when they said it was ...

Readers Speak

Money talks in votes Dear Editor, Jeffrey Yass, Pennsylvania’s richest man, a wealthy billionaire powerbroker, is using his fortune to subvert our democracy. Yass is deeply involved in this year’s judicial retention races. This is only his latest intervention in our political system. He has for years donated huge sums to influence election outcomes to buy more favorable outcomes for his causes. You may have seen some of the direct mail political ads from Commonwealth Partners, a Political Action Committee he funds. He apparently is opposed to retaining three highly regarded ...