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Opinion

Our opinion: There is no EMS white knight

Our Opinion

There's been a lot of talk about emergency services over the past several years - and rightly so. It was interesting to see conversation at last week's Warren City Council meeting about a recent Council of Governments discussion of EMS that very clearly stated what many have known for a ...

Our opinion: Another cut in regional care

Our Opinion

The news that the Bradford Regional Medical Center is going to downsize its operations from patient, emergency and long-term care services to an ambulatory and outpatient model is the latest in a long line of warnings about the state of rural health care in Pennsylvania. The closure notice ...

Our opinion: Make Youngsville process public

Our Opinion

If there is one firm takeaway from last week’s opening of bids for Youngsville High School’s future use, it is that the building isn’t likely to be empty for long. That’s good news given the difficulty in creating new uses for buildings that used to house schools. No one wanted to ...

Editor’s corner: Residency trajectory in region still going south

Opinion

Latest U.S. Census projections are not all bad news for Pennsylvania. In one year, the Commonwealth gained more than 14,000 residents and has increased population by 56,000 residents to 13,059,432 over the last six years. That’s a lot rosier than what’s happening next door. According to ...

Runaway energy costs are just the beginning

Local Commentaries

The energy statistics in the U.S. have not changed: Pennsylvania remains the second-largest producer of natural gas in the country. If the Appalachia Basin region (Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia) was its own country, it would be the fourth largest producer in the world. From century-old ...

Growing government eats away at paycheck

Local Commentaries

The latest political rage is the “Affordability Crisis” – which basically means inflation is eating away at your paycheck. Ironically, the people who most loudly proclaim the Affordability Crisis are usually the ones who caused the problem in the first place by supporting over-spending ...