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Our Opinion

Other voices: Congress must stop redistricting abuse

Florida was supposed to be the finale of this year’s race to the bottom on redistricting. Yet a cacophonous encore is now playing across the South after a Supreme Court ruling last week. The GOP started it in Texas last summer. A back-and-forth ensued, with Democrats redrawing maps in ...

Our opinion: Bullying bill leaves too much to imagination

We like the idea behind Rep. Jennifer O’Mara’s bill that would require schools to notify parents if their child has been bullied at school. Too many parents find out about incidents in school after the fact from their child, if they hear about them at all. That’s because, unless you’re ...

Our opinion: Remembering a record holder

Records are made to be broken, as the old saying goes. But records are also made to preserve the memories of former record holders. That one's our own thought, but it held true as we thought about Leyton Salvatore, a Warren Area High School sophomore who broke the school's 800-meter record ...

Our opinion: Put the phone down when driving

Imagine driving 55 miles per hour with your eyes closed for five seconds – the equivalent of the length of a football field. Sounds terrifying, doesn’t it? Now, imagine reading or sending a text message while behind the wheel. The five seconds spent looking at your cellphone and not ...

Our opinion: Torchlight shines through yet again

It certainly wasn’t easy for the United Fund of Warren County’s Torchlight Campaign to meet its $735,000 goal. The cost of living and doing business has gone up over the past year. As a county we deal with high poverty and a crippling loss of population that has led to some difficult ...

Editor’s corner: New York’s despair is getting desperate

Pennsylvania’s gubernatorial race is off to a cool start. Both incumbent Josh Shapiro and challenger Stacy Garrity are taking their shots at one another, but both seem to be holding back until the real campaign season begins later in the summer. To our north, it is a similar scenario as New ...