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Editor’s corner: Affordability keeps getting more expensive

Our Opinion

Almost every level of bureaucracy is guilty of overusing the word affordability. As prices keep rising — whether due to inflation, at the grocery store or painfully within the last two weeks at the gas pump — that phrase gets repeated more than nightly “Law & Order” reruns. Let’s be clear. If the government is involved, costs are not going down — on the national and local levels. With Pennsylvanians facing rising costs on everyday essentials, House Republicans this week launched their “Freedom Through Affordability” initiative – a plan to deliver tax relief and lower ...

SAVE Act takes aim at making it tougher to vote

Local Commentaries

You may have heard about a new voter registration act called the SAVE (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility) America Act. What is it, what would it change, and what evidence do we have that change is needed? In Pennsylvania, there are currently three requirements to register to vote. You must be a United States citizen, at least 18 years old, and a resident of Pennsylvania and the election district in which you want to vote. If your address or name changes, or if you wish to change your party, you can update your registration by mail or in person. You must show ID the first time ...

Words sometimes do speak louder than actions

Local Commentaries

It seems that there are many so-called leaders in this country who want the democracy we have upheld for nearly 250 years dismantled; The Socialist-Dems are pushing to defund I.C.E., and again the American citizen is held hostage. They have no leaders, only ringleaders who call the shots against what is best for the majority of the country. It’s tough to straighten something out (border) that has been grossly mishandled and then left for someone else to fix. I.C.E. is doing the cleanup that should never have been necessary in the first place, except for Biden’s missteps. Dems are ...

Most of the occupied regions in our world are stolen land

Local Commentaries

At the 2026 Grammy Awards, the very dour Billie Eilish shamed Americans for living on stolen land. What a wonderful way to signal her humanitarian virtue. Then reality struck: Somebody noted that Eilish’s multi-million dollar mansion sits on the same stolen land as the mansions of all those Woke elitists who applauded her mindless proclamation. Oops! But the Woke elitists are not giving the stolen land back, in spite of their self-righteous virtue signaling. They did not bring it up at the Oscars! But Woke Leftists are not the only ones spouting the stolen land narrative. The ...

Forgetting everything? Well, join the club

Local Commentaries

My mother had a saying that I heard all too often during my childhood: “You’d forget your head if it wasn’t attached.” Sadly, she was right. I’ve spent a ridiculous amount of my whole life looking for what I have lost, misplaced, or simply forgotten. No, it’s not just ordinary car keys or reading glasses. Or please, God, my cell phone. I was a latchkey kid who couldn’t hang onto house keys. I lost keys at a rate that made the hardware store man shake his head. I was a regular customer at age 8. And mittens? Snow hats? Library books? I forgot them all, the second ...

Our opinion: Closing the reassessment book

Our Opinion

The accepted rule of thumb when it comes to property reassessments is that roughly one-third of properties will see their assessment increase, one-third will see their assessment decrease and one-third will see their assessment stay the same. But what happens when some of the one-third of properties that increases end up seeing their assessments decreased after an appeal? To some - particularly those who have fought the property reassessment since the process was approved a few years ago - it could mean the entire process was handled incorrectly by the county’s hired contractor, ...