Opinion
Published on April 14, 2024 - Page 21
ROSE: Here's a rose to Salem Ptlm. Josh Switzer who, for the second time, saved the life of someone in danger of bleeding to death.
On April 4,...
Published on April 14, 2024 - Page 21
InsideSources.com If there’s one thing we should be able to agree upon, it’s that everyone should pay the taxes they owe without having to pay for...
Published on April 14, 2024 - Page 21
InsideSources.com Tax Day looms, and the Taxman cometh. It is a certainty, as Ben Franklin said. This year, the Internal Revenue Service has launched...
Published on April 13, 2024 - Page 15
We're democracy nerds, so we love elections. We hope you do, too.
While we know campaigns are long and tedious -- especially in presidential-election...
Published on April 13, 2024 - Page 15
ROSE: The Berwick Area school board has made two good decisions back-to-back when it comes to the future of their elementary schools.
The first good...
Published on April 13, 2024 - Page 15
Name calling is not my normal means of communicating with others, but as a staunch Orange Man supporter, we are by inference, individually and a...
Published on April 13, 2024 - Page 15
Low-income and working-class taxpayers can't afford to live in mansions or own luxury automobiles. So why should they have to pay the same income-tax...
Published on April 12, 2024 - Page 6
ROSE: “Ooh that smell,” sang Lynyrd Skynyrd in one of rock ’n’ roll’s most weirdly memorable choruses. “Can’t you smell that smell?”
We start...
Published on April 12, 2024 - Page 6
What do you call a space ship that drips water? A crying saucer.
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Where do aliens go to school? Universe-ities.
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What do aliens wear to...
Published on April 12, 2024 - Page 6
Last weekend’s front-page Mirror article “No gray area for mandated reporters” should have been a must-read for everyone, since virtually everyone...
Published on April 12, 2024 - Page 6
Representative Robert Leadbeter (Valari) and “Make Liberty Win,” a Robert Leadbeter-aligned Washington DC-based dark money group, want Republican...
Published on April 12, 2024 - Page 6
In his recent letter to the editor, Matt Yoder defended his reasoning for switching party affiliation from Democrat to Republican; making him...
Published on April 11, 2024 - Page 17
When I was a school board director, I sat in on all of the teacher's negotiations. Teachers, board directors and administrators did not want me there...
Published on April 11, 2024 - Page 17
What do you call a computer mouse that swears a lot? A cursor!
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What chemical is released in your brain when you see something funny on the...
Published on April 10, 2024 - Page 16
Women's college basketball has become a cultural phenomenon.
Arenas are selling out. Records have been set for Division I all-time college points,...
Published on April 10, 2024 - Page 16
Berwick, Briar Creek Township and Salem Township tax money is now paying for volunteers to trap, neuter and release feral cats within their municipal...
Published on April 10, 2024 - Page 16
It is past time to put aside politics as they are today and look at what we want for ourselves, our kids, our grandkids, our friends and families,...
Published on April 10, 2024 - Page 16
Four-year-olds understand pretend.
Recent bomb threats in Lancaster have me shaking my head. Adults, heavily male, are so frightened of drag queen...
Published on April 10, 2024 - Page 16
What do cats love to do in the morning? Read the mewspaper!
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Why do cats make terrible storytellers? They only have one tail.
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Where does a cat...
Published on April 10, 2024 - Page 16
Robert Leadbeter is not a conservative Republican. He proved this in late 2023 when he joined with liberal Democrats in the state House of...
Published on April 9, 2024 - Page 6
Easter Sunday was a somber holiday for the people of Sullivan as they observed the one-year anniversary of a deadly tornado that tore through the...
Published on April 9, 2024 - Page 6
The Bloomsburg Area Recreational Trail opened this weekend, as water receded across the area from the near-flood levels the river hit last week....
Published on April 9, 2024 - Page 6
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The drumbeat for more nuclear power grows louder all the time.
As the demand for more electricity rises inexorably (now agreed at 2...
Published on April 9, 2024 - Page 6
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Brothers Ben and Hank Brinkmann never had a chance when they decided to expand their chain of Long Island hardware stores to a...
Published on April 8, 2024 - Page 6
U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., and 19 other U.S. senators, all Democrats but one, Bernie Sanders, an independent, are wrong. Contrary to what they...
Published on April 8, 2024 - Page 6
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Fishermen see a lot when they're at sea. But the pair looking for flounder off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, had never...
Published on April 8, 2024 - Page 6
Will invisible airplanes ever be a thing? I just can't see them taking off.
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It was mealtime on an airplane, and the flight attendant asked a...
Published on April 7, 2024 - Page 14
As the war in Gaza grinds on into its sixth month, cracks are showing in the once unequivocally united front between Israel and the United States....
Published on April 7, 2024 - Page 14
ROSE: Easter is one of those holidays people typically spend with family. But volunteer firefighters know there will be times they'll be called on to...
Published on April 7, 2024 - Page 14
I remember Pete Eyerly. He was in my older brother's class at Central Columbia. He married my high school boyfriend's sister.
When I returned home to...