There is a lot to like in the budget approved by the Warren City Council last week. The budget doesn’t increase property taxes. It provides a bit more support to the Warren Area Student Union and allows a mid-year review of Warren Worx that allows the city to evaluate the use of city money ...
‘Twas the week before Christmas … and I had just whined in last week’s column about getting everything done. My mother always said, “If you’ve got your health, you have everything. You’re healthy, so what is your problem?” Fast forward to this past week. We were driving home ...
On this oftentimes dreadful planet, it is hard to imagine how the words “Peace on Earth” have any true relevance anymore. To many people on this Christmas Day, that phrase is considered obsolete, just a minuscule remnant of a better time, although looking at this planet as a whole, there ...
Republican House Rep. Brenda Pugh is so upset by President Joe Biden’s commutation of the prison sentence of former Luzerne County Judge Michael Conahan that she wants to rename the President Joe Biden Expressway. “Conahan’s conduct is forever a blight on Pennsylvania and is a slap in ...
As the vote to close Youngsville High School and move the grade nine to 12 Sheffield students, it is evident that the district has not thought this plan all the way through on many of the aspects that pertain to this ill-fated plan. One of the biggest areas of question is over the ...
This is an open letter to the Warren school board. What is the plan for preparing (academically and mentally) students who attend Youngsville High School and who now may have to switch schools? This would be a major change in their lives. I want to know how staff at both Youngsville High and ...