Our city council’s recent action to send a letter to Harrisburg and PennDOT requesting they halt the construction of the roundabout is embarrassing, to say the least. It is very symbolic, too. It has been said many times that this is the first city council that has had the opportunity to ...

In January, state Rep. Martin Causer and Rep. Kathy Rapp hosted a legislative hearing on Rural Healthcare Disparities, with the purported goal of overcoming them. Preceeding this hearing, nurses throughout the Commonwealth have advocated within hospitals as well as at state and national levels ...

This morning I took out the coffee maker that makes one cup at a time. That turned out to be a tear jerker. It made reality that much more real. When we married, I knew because of his age Don would probably pass before I would although since I had had breast cancer, anything was possible. ...

Today, as I write this, it’s a Monday in late February – bright sunshine and 63 degrees. Outside it looks and feels like late April but inside – we are still decorated for all the winter holidays. Three dangling red hearts festoon our front door. St. Valentine would be pleased that we ...

We continue to hear that nursing and health care are in crisis. Some challenges the nursing profession faces include burnout, compassion fatigue, COVID-19, staffing shortages, long hours, mandatory overtime and workplace violence. On May 12, nurses from across the nation will unite in ...

This morning I received an email with a video attachment that hit close to home. The short clip showed a young woman loading groceries into her SUV. She finished, then shoved the empty shopping cart across the open parking space next to hers, turned away, and got in her car. The cart stopped ...