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Opinion

Our opinion: Some help for school transport

Our Opinion

Warren County School District officials are on the hot seat when it comes to the amount of time children will spend on school buses next year. Transportation is one of the most persistent questions about the closure of the Youngsville and Sheffield high school buildings that has been raised ...

Our opinion: Equitable solution to lawsuit

Our Opinion

Warren officials have reached what appears to be an equitable solution with a developer who wants to pursue oil and gas drilling on a parcel that includes what is now a Days Inn on Ludlow Street. The parcel was formerly zoned commercial except for two-tenths of an acre that was zoned for ...

Readers Speak

Letters To Editor

Indifference to damage Dear Editor, This is an open letter to Congress: I am writing this letter to express my deep concerns over what is currently happening in Washington, especially in terms of President Donald Trump’s shameless overriding of the Constitution by freezing needed funds and ...

Lessons for the U.S. can be found in Sweden

Local Commentaries

About six years ago, Economist Johan Norberg produced a documentary about Sweden’s recent economic transformations entitled “Sweden: Lessons for America.” The program is very informative as well as entertaining, and will challenge what you thought you knew. You can still catch it on ...

Job reductions at ANF will take toll on county

Local Commentaries

The headline in the Feb. 22 edition of the Warren Times Observer reads “Forest Service layoffs may affect ANF.” How devastating would cuts to the ANF be to the Warren community? Let me give you the facts. As of January, the Allegheny National Forest employed 151 full-time people spread ...

View from Hickory Heights: A common invention

Local Commentaries

Do you know who Walter Hunt was? I am guessing you probably do not recognize the name, but he made a significant contribution that we all have used. In 1849 he invented the safety pin. He received his patent, but later sold it to satisfy a debt. He received $400 for his patent ending his ...