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Opinion

Our opinion: State dialed in for ban on phones

Our Opinion

Imagine it’s morning rush hour and you’re at a stop light. Your child is strapped into the back seat and you are driving her to day care. You look in the mirror and see a woman who is putting on makeup and looking down at what is probably a screen. OK, that’s multitasking, but you ...

Our opinion: It’s about money, not choices

Our Opinion

If the Warren County School District’s finances were solid, the ongoing discussion to give parents more flexibility in sending students to schools outside of their designated attendance area would make more sense. If parents can take care of transportation outside of their attendance area, ...

Warren Worx effort lacks definition

Local Commentaries

It’s kind of rewarding to see some formal actions to attempt to address the challenges of the Warren County community, with its decline in population as the stated key reason. Although the intent is recognized, the questions of the structure, process, and management of such an endeavor are ...

Our opinion: Let lawmakers handle loan relief

Our Opinion

The Biden Administration, once again, is trying to use executive action to reduce student loan debt. And once again, the White House’s approach fails to address the root causes of this problem and ignores the historic avenues that allow such root causes or larger concerns to be aired and ...

View from Hickory Heights: Our everyday wonders

Local Commentaries

On the Internet I recently found something that piqued my interest. On a site called the “Power of Positivity” it listed the Seven Wonders of the World like this. “We can: see, hear, touch, taste, smell, laugh, and love.” This is more than the five senses. It also includes feelings ...

Our opinion: Food Bank need is sign of times

Our Opinion

The economic recovery being touted at higher levels of government isn’t reaching too many in our midst. That’s the biggest takeaway to be had from the news that the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Pennsylvania has seen a 25.3% increase in the level of need over the last year and a ...