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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 Scotland – northern Scotland. My intolerance for heat must be hereditary. I would not have made a good Bedouin camel driver or Amazon rain forest guide. When my Scottish ancestors emigrated to North America, they didn’t settle in Charleston or Richmond – not even Boston. They landed in Canada, ...

Our opinion: E-bikes require state, local action

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It’s expensive to operate a motor vehicle these days. That’s one reason we are seeing an increasing number of e-bikes and e-scooters on our streets. Personal mobility devices aren’t a bad thing. It’s good that there are lower-cost options for people to get themselves from place to place than cars or trucks. And if e-bikes or e-scooters are used properly there is no reason why cars, trucks, pedestrians and personal mobility devices can’t share the road safely. The problem is proper, safe use. Warren City Council members are expected to discuss the issue again during ...

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 whole sordid affair had never happened. To their credit, they haven’t done that. Court officials released the charging documents that included statements from the state Attorney General’s Office investigator as soon as the charges were filed. There was zero delay releasing that information ...

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 populous areas and increases to $12 an hour in more rural locations. Philadelphia County’s minimum wage would hit $15 on Jan. 1 of next year if the bill is adopted by the state Senate while phasing in through 2028 in the rest of the state. As we said, it’s an improvement over past bills that ...

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 currently in place, innocent drivers or vehicle passengers could die or be maimed — just because only a warning will be issued now, rather than a monetary penalty from violators’ wallets or pocketbooks. The possibility of a fine, rather than a warning, could deter some drivers from risking ...

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 counter-productive Net-Zero Green Energy projects, and subsidizes illegal aliens and the Non-Governmental Organizations that brought them here. USAID funded the CIA overthrow of the legitimate government of Ukraine 2014, setting off the current Russia/Ukraine conflict which has cost a million lives so ...