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Our Opinion

Our opinion: Find middle ground with rentals

City officials aren’t wrong to think there should be some local guidelines governing short-term rentals. We’ve all heard the horror stories of short-term rentals creating havoc for people who have owned their homes for decades when rentals go wrong with loud parties or tons of additional ...

Our opinion: Rural health care in tough cycle

Sometimes it seems like rural communities are caught in a vicious cycle — jobs and amenities are not available that would keep young people there, and as the population declines, the remaining jobs and amenities shrivel, which makes a revival even harder to pull off. A recent story in the ...

Our opinion: Giving back in Youngsville

What can you buy with a penny? Not much, especially these days. But if you get a bunch of pennies together, you can do quite a bit. In Youngsville, 22,000 pennies collected by Youngsville Elementary School students will help the Youngsville Public Library purchase summer program ...

Our opinion: Keeping assessments current

What good is a once-in-30-years countywide property reassessment if it quickly falls out of date? The answer, obviously, is not much. That’s why an idea discussed recently by the Warren County Council of Governments makes a lot of sense and deserves consideration as the reassessment ...

Our opinion: Don’t wait for next train mishap

In Lower Saucon Township, Pa., residents are awaiting the results of an investigation into yet another Norfolk Southern train derailment March 2. This one involved three trains and scattered rail cars along a riverbank. At least one was partially in the Lehigh River. So far, the National ...

Our opinion: Business leader a powerful advocate

Erin Willman’s story is well known to most of us here in Warren County. The area native lost her sight at the age of 15 and, after years of struggling to find a good job, started White Cane Coffee at the age of 22. White Cane Coffee now employs 12 employees and 76 affiliate employees ...