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Opinion

Rounding Third: Surviving Mother Nature’s hot temper

Local Commentaries

It was 92 stifling degrees when I arrived home from lunch yesterday. Humidity was in the 80% range. As predicted. I hate this hot stuff. Fuggedaboudit. I know there are people who thrive in the heat. I’m happy for them, but I will never be one of them. Ever. I should have been born in ...

Our opinion: County transparent on Kibbey case

Our Opinion

Shortly after Kibbey’s resignation was made public, we asked those involved to be transparent as the investigation continued and as the fallout from the incident became evident. It would have been easy for Warren County officials to simply paper over the Kibbey affair and proceed as if the ...

Our opinion: Try tiered minimum wage hike

Our Opinion

We’ve probably all grown tired of the legislative back and forth over the state’s minimum wage. A proposal that passed the state House of Representatives recently is better than some that have been proposed by state Democrats, with a tiered minimum wage that rises to $15 an hour in ...

Our opinion: Make phone ban tougher

Our Opinion

The expression “time flies” is familiar to most people. However, time cannot “fly” fast enough regarding Pennsylvania’s new handheld-cellphone ban for individuals operating motor vehicles on commonwealth roadways. Until the full teeth of the law replaces the wishy-washy provisions ...

Readers Speak

Letters To Editor

Actions and words Dear Editor, You learn a lot running a business with employees. Contrary to what College Business courses teach, I never followed the “pay yourself first” philosophy. I never took a paycheck. I got what was left over. My employees were paid first. Payroll — and ...

Nation is on verge of a new serfdom

Local Commentaries

“Nearly the whole of the professional, intellectual, and government class has betrayed the cause of universal human liberty in our times.” — Jeffrey Tucker. Our government forces taxpayers to subsidize those who chose not to work, lavishes subsidies on Wall Street billionaires for ...