Opinion
Published on March 23, 2025 - Page 21
Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are at it again, hawking their "Loan Shark Prevention Act" with a shiny new 10% APR cap. Worse, they each...
Published on March 22, 2025 - Page 6
ROSE: "The past is never dead. It's not even past."
What the great American author William Faulkner meant by those words is that, no matter how much...
Published on March 22, 2025 - Page 6
Vladimir Putin is still demanding the moon for a full Ukraine ceasefire; peacemaking President Donald Trump may soon need to drop the niceties and...
Published on March 22, 2025 - Page 6
Jiddu Krishnamurti, talking to a group of adults and children.1964:
"Surely, education has no meaning unless it helps you to understand the vast...
Published on March 22, 2025 - Page 6
I was born during the Great Depression. When the United States entered World War II in 1941, I was 8 years old and in fourth grade. Many young and...
Published on March 22, 2025 - Page 6
What did the rain drop say to his friends? Two's company, but three's a cloud.
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What's hotter than a summer Saturday? A Sun-day.
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What drops...
Published on March 21, 2025 - Page 15
A federal judge has for now halted efforts by the Trump administration to swiftly deport activist Mahmoud Khalil, a legal U.S. resident who was a key...
Published on March 21, 2025 - Page 15
THORN: The New York Times recently paid some reporters to do a blind tasting of potato chips, then rate the best in more than a dozen categories. (...
Published on March 21, 2025 - Page 15
After just seven weeks in office again, the madness of the Trump presidency is only getting worse in both domestic and foreign policy. It started out...
Published on March 21, 2025 - Page 15
Every now and then it seems to be worthwhile to think about where civilization is and where civilization was just a short century and a half ago. One...
Published on March 21, 2025 - Page 15
Did you know that Hawaii is the only state that has only one school district and that California, Oklahoma and Texas have more than one thousand...
Published on March 20, 2025 - Page 15
One of the Biden Administration's worst failures was letting Iran's terror proxies in Yemen shut down a crucial global shipping lane and shoot at the...
Published on March 20, 2025 - Page 15
Bloomsburg Area School District announced this week it intends to end a practice that has allowed parents for the past 17 years to choose to which of...
Published on March 20, 2025 - Page 15
Each year, millions of Americans face a decision that's more consequential than buying a home or car: choosing where to have major surgery. For...
Published on March 20, 2025 - Page 15
InsideSources.com
Sitting behind President Trump at his inauguration were men who might well be called the barons of America: the tech billionaires...
Published on March 19, 2025 - Page 6
Donald Trump won the White House not with money, though he spent plenty of it, but by dominating the conversation. He hasn't stopped campaigning. He...
Published on March 19, 2025 - Page 6
Life would be easier for our elected council members, township supervisors and school boards if they could make all their decisions behind closed...
Published on March 19, 2025 - Page 6
Happy! Happy! Happy!
President Trump, and his Dream Team administration, has completely broken the hapless Demokrauts, and I am happy as one person...
Published on March 19, 2025 - Page 6
University employees engaged in sexual misconduct. Administrators misappropriating public funds. Scientists paid by industry groups to obtain...
Published on March 18, 2025 - Page 15
The measles outbreak that began in Texas is now up to 228 cases in two states, 23 hospitalizations, and one dead child, and still health secretary...
Published on March 18, 2025 - Page 15
Elections have consequences.
We've seen the implications of that phrase on the national level for the past two months as long-held assumptions about...
Published on March 18, 2025 - Page 15
"We are all tied to the same ball of twine. We breathe the same air." -- John F. Kennedy
Father Eli Thanh is a Jesuit missionary who has been in...
Published on March 18, 2025 - Page 15
I am a resident of Bloomsburg which makes me a constituent of U.S. Congressman Dan Meuser. I am also a writer/editor for Greenfire Coalition Writers...
Published on March 18, 2025 - Page 15
What type of carpeting did the geometry teacher use? An area rug.
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Do you know what's odd? Every other number.
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What do you call a snowman on...
Published on March 17, 2025 - Page 6
No country can avoid the economic impact of Donald Trump's aggressive trade policy. There are no exceptions to the president's global tariff on...
Published on March 17, 2025 - Page 6
InsideSources.com
Winter is rarely a bed of roses, and 1925 had been a particularly rough one.
A late January blizzard had dumped up to 4 feet of...
Published on March 16, 2025 - Page 21
As Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency continue to recommend mass layoffs of federal employees, state and local leaders --...
Published on March 16, 2025 - Page 21
THORN: Carver Hall, the landmark structure of what is now the Bloomsburg campus of Commonwealth University, was built in 1867, just two years after...
Published on March 16, 2025 - Page 21
St. Patrick's Day couldn't come soon enough this year.
Half the country is giddy as the Trump administration undoes our reckless spending and $2...
Published on March 16, 2025 - Page 21
InsideSources.com
The debate over the minerals problem has finally come down to earth. It is centered on President Trump's play for minerals in...
