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Our Opinion

Our opinion: Rushed votes are poor process

We don’t profess to know whether or not allowing natural asset companies to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange is good or bad, nor what it really means for Warren County. The company Intrinsic Exchange Group, IEG, developed the idea for Natural Asset Companies as a way to enable ...

Our opinion: Less is more in government

Though the Republican National Committee’s online platform summary does now contain not one, but two, references to “America’s greatness” and what “makes America great,” it is conspicuously lacking a tenet many political conservatives still hold dear: When it comes to government, ...

Our opinion: Work to be done for project

A $1.7 million project to rehabilitate another floor of the downtown anchor building at 300 Second Ave. may not seem like much. But it’s important to remember what shape the building, whose fourth and fifth floor house the Northern Pennsylvania Regional College, was in not too long ago. ...

Our opinion: Seeking balance for state land

Is there a need for more public game land in Warren County? It’s a good question that deserves more public debate than creation of a new game land in western Warren County was given. In November, the state Game Commission announced the acquisition of 2,195 acres of property that would ...

Our opinion: Klakamp’s goal on right path

The goals expressed by the current group of Warren County Commissioners - Tricia Durbin, Ken Klakamp and Dan Glotz - reflect each commissioner’s experience in public service. Glotz, the longtime county planner, wants to focus on implementing the plans that have been developed. Durbin has ...

Our opinion: U.S. keeps failing with history

In November, The New York Times ran a story about a subset of voters who were more enthused about the idea of Vice President Kamala Harris making a White House bid than her boss, President Joe Biden. One passage in particular caused many eyebrows to shoot skyward. A 21-year-old financial ...