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Opinion

What did you say your name was?

Local Commentaries

Last week’s chat about forgetting the keys and the glasses? Fuggedaboudit. This week’s unforgettable subject is even more serious. It’s about names. I used to be good at remembering names — until about the last 40 years or so. A few weeks ago, I was having a lunch meeting with two ...

Our Opinion: Blight fight must be taken seriously

Our Opinion

It’s telling that only 28% of local governments in Pennsylvania feel they have the capacity to deal with blight. We’re willing to bet Warren County, even with a new surcharge aimed at raising money to fund the county’s land bank, falls within the 72% of local governments struggling to ...

Our opinion: Sobering safety net program stats

Our Opinion

It should be obvious, after reading a recent Center Square report, that state lawmakers have to do something about human services program spending in the commonwealth. In 2000, Pennsylvania had 760,000 residents getting food stamps. Now, almost 2 million receive them. Growth in Medicaid has ...

Other voices: An ‘obligation’ for Justice Alito

Our Opinion

Congratulations to Chief Justice John Roberts, who responded to importuning Senators by letting Justice Samuel Alito respond for himself. Justice Alito’s reply on Wednesday: He has “an obligation to sit” on cases under the Supreme Court’s code of conduct. Sens. Dick Durbin and Sheldon ...

View from Hickory Heights: Picnic season begins

Local Commentaries

Picnics took on various purposes through the years. Sometimes we had picnics when the men were working. That meant that either my sister-in-law and her family traveled or we did. In those days we ran two farms together. When the men worked at the lower farm, the picnic was there. When they ...

Our opinion: Remembering D-Day invasion

Our Opinion

Today marks the 80th anniversary of World War II’s D-Day invasion. According to the National D-Day Memorial, which is located in Bedford,Va.,: “While the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, usually termed D-Day, did not end the war in Europe — that would take 11 more months — success ...