Opinion
Published on December 10, 2025 - Page 6
What is all this talk about God? If there is a God what would I expect to see?
What criteria would I invent that must be met? At what point would I...
Published on December 10, 2025 - Page 6
In recent times, the Citizens Advisory of Pennsylvania, initially an anti-mask and anti-vax group, has disturbingly redirected its focus towards...
Published on December 9, 2025 - Page 12
As Donald Trump's Thanksgiving Day deadline for a Ukraine peace agreement came and went last month, the Russia expert Mark Galeotti pointed to a...
Published on December 9, 2025 - Page 12
Bloomsburg Mayor Justin Hummel would rather not hear your opinion.
It's hard to come to any other conclusion after the recently re-elected Hummel...
Published on December 9, 2025 - Page 12
The mayor's recent comments regarding meeting changes make one thing clear: his push for these smaller, private two-person meetings isn't about...
Published on December 8, 2025 - Page 6
On a Friday in September, more than 100 Americans boarded boats in the San Juans and set sail for British Columbia's Salt Spring Island. The flotilla...
Published on December 8, 2025 - Page 6
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It started like any other Monday at Long Island's Belmont Park outside New York City. The weather was warming up as the annual...
Published on December 7, 2025 - Page 21
I never liked John Fetterman. He was too far to the left, or so I thought. Too weird. Too much of a narcissist who did things the way he did to...
Published on December 7, 2025 - Page 21
ROSE: It's Dec. 7, "a date which will live in infamy," said President Franklin D. Roosevelt, addressing Congress in 1941, the day after Japan's sneak...
Published on December 7, 2025 - Page 21
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A nuclear fusion breakthrough has always been 30-odd years away, but not anymore. The race for commercialization is on.
Today, 53...
Published on December 7, 2025 - Page 21
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After watching the House Energy and Commerce hearing on "protecting kids online," I was reminded Congress is debating the wrong...
Published on December 6, 2025 - Page 8
There is bipartisan fury in Congress today over stealth legislation offering million-dollar windfalls to a handful of senators whose office phone...
Published on December 6, 2025 - Page 8
ROSE: Tonight is one of the biggest and best of the holiday season in Berwick: The switch will be flipped at 6 p.m. to light Christmas Boulevard.
It...
Published on December 6, 2025 - Page 8
Here's a story I came across on the internet, which I think has an important message for this time of year when we think about thanksgiving.
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My...
Published on December 6, 2025 - Page 8
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The Bible verse from Ecclesiastes 1:9 reads: "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing...
Published on December 5, 2025 - Page 15
Congress is mostly a media circus these days, so credit the members who take their duties seriously. Lawmakers are doing a public service by trying...
Published on December 5, 2025 - Page 15
ROSE: Bloomsburg's council did right in deciding to illuminate the skatepark after dark.
Roses to the half-dozen skateboarders who demonstrated they...
Published on December 5, 2025 - Page 15
An economic bubble is defined as a period when current asset prices greatly exceed their intrinsic valuation. Current Artificial Intelligence mania...
Published on December 5, 2025 - Page 15
If you and your family don't like the rifle deer season in this state opening on a Saturday instead of the traditional Monday, you are not alone. Don...
Published on December 4, 2025 - Page 16
Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and Andrew Wolfe, 24, were sworn in as National Guard members on a Tuesday. The following day, they were ambushed by an Afghan...
Published on December 4, 2025 - Page 16
More than a decade after she started stealing from the taxpayers of Columbia County's Conyngham Township, Linda Tarlecki was sentenced last week to a...
Published on December 4, 2025 - Page 16
The recent attack in Washington, D.C. was a haunting reminder of 9/11 and failed U.S. policies in the aftermath. When he killed one National Guard...
Published on December 4, 2025 - Page 16
An article in the October 24 Center on Budget and Policy Priorities newsletter explained the strategy the Republican Party used during the government...
Published on December 3, 2025 - Page 6
Why are Sherlock Holmes' taxes so low? He's a master of deduction.
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What did the clown say to his tax attorney? Find anything funny?
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Where do...
Published on December 3, 2025 - Page 6
Hold on to your wallet.
We expect in the coming weeks and years, we'll see more headlines like those coming out of Columbia County, Montour County...
Published on December 2, 2025 - Page 14
The declaration of a ceasefire in Gaza in October brought initial relief to its inhabitants. Yet officials there said Israeli strikes killed 33...
Published on December 2, 2025 - Page 14
( EDITOR'S NOTE: Editor Pete Kendron was on a Thanksgiving break this weekend. Editorials will return to the paper on Wednesday.)
By Marilyn...
Published on December 2, 2025 - Page 14
At last month's Montour County Planning Commission meeting a vote was cast to not recommend the rezoning of Talen Energy-owned prime agricultural...
Published on December 2, 2025 - Page 14
It seems your recent article entitled "Northwest schools to keep bathroom policy" has conveyed the exact opposite of what the article details....
Published on December 2, 2025 - Page 14
How do you wash your hands over the holiday?
With Santatizer.
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Why don't you ever see Santa in a hospital?
Because he has private elf care.
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Why...