Opinion
Published on November 21, 2025 - Page 15
Back in April this paper was kind enough to air my two cents about the threats to our centuries old legal system (In Defense of our legal system). My...
Published on November 20, 2025 - Page 12
After the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade and ended the constitutional right to abortion three years ago, both supporters and opponents of the...
Published on November 20, 2025 - Page 12
Bloomsburg saw a great need for a temporary homeless shelter in a church, so its council acted to approve it, even though a few pesky zoning...
Published on November 20, 2025 - Page 12
Your editorial looks at Commonwealth University and sees institutions to be trimmed away. I look at the university and see something far different...
Published on November 20, 2025 - Page 12
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America's experiment in self-government began 250 years ago with the deliberate and inspired design of men who understood the...
Published on November 19, 2025 - Page 16
Maybe the United Nations isn't as useless as it so often shows. The Security Council recently endorsed President Trump's 20-point peace plan for Gaza...
Published on November 19, 2025 - Page 16
SEDA-COG has some explaining to do -- to the state, to its clients and to the public.
Two times now, the state's Department of Community and Economic...
Published on November 19, 2025 - Page 16
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After watching our two political parties struggle to reopen the government, it is time to remind ourselves of the value of...
Published on November 19, 2025 - Page 16
A recent letter to the editor by Carl Fedako suggested that installing grid batteries will make electricity much more expensive. At the end, Mr....
Published on November 18, 2025 - Page 16
Sometimes a decision is as easy as a coin toss. The stakes are low. The outcome is variable. Heads, you win. Tails, you lose. No big deal either way...
Published on November 18, 2025 - Page 16
We'll give interim Commonwealth University President Jeff Osgood credit -- he knows his way around a metaphor.
At his first virtual town hall with...
Published on November 18, 2025 - Page 16
Before reviewing some numbers about the use of batteries to store energy for the grid, a few definitions are in order.
A battery is a number of cells...
Published on November 18, 2025 - Page 16
I was drafted into the army in 1958. It was peace time, no Korea or Vietnam, never faced enemy bullets and except for basic training I never faced a...
Published on November 18, 2025 - Page 16
Subject: Need for a hospital in Berwick
On Sept. 24, 1967, while visiting relatives in Berwick with our 12-day old daughter, my wife began...
Published on November 18, 2025 - Page 16
What key can't open any doors? A turkey.
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What's the best way to fix a broken pumpkin? Use a pumpkin patch.
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What do you need to make...
Published on November 17, 2025 - Page 6
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On the day of the nationwide protests under the banner "No Kings," something remarkable occurred: Despite deep divisions and the...
Published on November 17, 2025 - Page 6
( EDITOR'S NOTE : Holy Cow History is on vacation this week, so we're printing a column originally written in March 2021 we haven't yet run.)
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Published on November 16, 2025 - Page 21
Since the re-election of Donald Trump last November, a demoralised Democratic party has struggled to reverse a palpable sense of downward momentum....
Published on November 16, 2025 - Page 21
ROSE: Northwest Area School District officials are contemplating one of the most difficult decisions educators are ever called on to make: closing a...
Published on November 16, 2025 - Page 21
Last night, I chanced upon a Veterans Day tribute on PBS. It was a reflection on World War I. The show ended with the origin of the Tomb of the...
Published on November 16, 2025 - Page 21
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Over the last few months, the food industry has sent a clear message: healthier, simpler and more nutritious products are no longer...
Published on November 15, 2025 - Page 6
The Food and Drug Administration shouldn't be in the news if it's doing its job right. By that measure the FDA is failing in spectacular fashion. The...
Published on November 15, 2025 - Page 6
ROSE: By law, zoning ordinances must allow for every kind of human activity, even those considered by some to be noxious. So it behooves local...
Published on November 15, 2025 - Page 6
I'm an Independent. I see Trump as an independent businessman. No politician can do what Trump has done. To correct the damage Democrats did to our...
Published on November 15, 2025 - Page 6
I have become "the enemy within," an enemy of the people as charged by Lord Protector of what is American, Donald J.
Proof of my guilt you ask? My...
Published on November 15, 2025 - Page 6
As a healthy, established agrarian and rural community, we can ill afford to sacrifice productive farmlands and rural lifestyle on the altar of...
Published on November 14, 2025 - Page 16
The winds of war, and the manpower and machines to unleash them, are gathering rapidly around Venezuela.
In January 2003, this editorial board...
Published on November 14, 2025 - Page 16
ROSE: After revelations about secret meetings and the signing of non-disclosure agreements by public officials who then lied about it, disappointed...
Published on November 14, 2025 - Page 16
The election has passed and once again, for the fourth year in a row, our twin college students have had their ability to vote compromised. Our...
Published on November 14, 2025 - Page 16
Are you concerned about a data center being built in your community?
Remember when we said our data was being stored "in the cloud?" The cloud is...