Opinion

Published on January 21, 2025 - Page 15
InsideSources.com Millions watched President Trump deliver his second inaugural address Monday. Over the years, some of those speeches contained...
Published on January 21, 2025 - Page 15
It appears Berwick's Eagle Hose Company effectively has been declared dead. Earlier this month, the association that buys much of Berwick's...
Published on January 21, 2025 - Page 15
When the Sunday hunting bill was passed by the state Legislature and then signed by then-Governor Tom Wolf in 2019, a little-known amendment to the...
Published on January 21, 2025 - Page 15
American Legion Post 40 located along Northumberland Street, Danville, has been honoring past and present veterans since receiving its charter in...
Published on January 20, 2025 - Page 6
Below are excerpts of four presidential inauguration speeches from the 20th century. *** "We know that self-government is difficult. We know that no...
Published on January 20, 2025 - Page 6
InsideSources.com How many people have been president of the United States? History surrenders this secret grudgingly. Several people technically...
Published on January 19, 2025 - Page 21
The flames ripping through parts of Los Angeles and neighboring counties for the past week have been an unprecedented disaster, and persistent Santa...
Published on January 19, 2025 - Page 21
ROSE: The years in our area follow a familiar pattern. First in early January comes the annual Bloomsburg Fair meeting, where someone always has...
Published on January 19, 2025 - Page 21
The United States is racing to build the most powerful technology in human history -- and the truth is nobody knows how to keep it under human...
Published on January 19, 2025 - Page 21
Insidesources.com President Biden entered the White House waging war on America's fossil fuel energy industry, and critics say he's going out the...
Published on January 18, 2025 - Page 16
Americans didn't learn much about Pentagon nominee Pete Hegseth at his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday, but they did learn more about the...
Published on January 18, 2025 - Page 16
ROSE: The directors of the Bloomsburg Fair proved at the annual meeting last Saturday once you get to a certain age -- the fair is 170 years old --...
Published on January 18, 2025 - Page 16
There's nothing artificial about the controversy that's growing among homeowners, educators, doctors and sports administrators over fake grass. The...
Published on January 18, 2025 - Page 16
InsideSources.com Priorities for the new Trump administration will soon begin to take shape. If his campaign is any indication, promoting tobacco...
Published on January 18, 2025 - Page 16
How many storm troopers does it take to change a lightbulb? None, because they are all on the dark side. *** If your house is cold, just stand in the...
Published on January 17, 2025 - Page 15
The federal government's ability to regulate immigration, a basic function of any nation, is broken. Over the past four years, some eight million...
Published on January 17, 2025 - Page 15
THORN: Zoning too often infringes on the rights of property owners, forcing them to spend money on legal representation to defend things that affect...
Published on January 17, 2025 - Page 15
The democratic world is stunned that Americans, who fought the Revolutionary War to overthrow a tyrannical monarch, will soon coronate an adjudicated...
Published on January 17, 2025 - Page 15
<200B>As Superintendent of the Central Columbia School District, I feel obligated to respond to the recent “Scheduling to the Test” editorial...
Published on January 17, 2025 - Page 15
Two windmills were sitting on a hill. One asks the other, "Do you have a favorite song?" The other replies, "Well... all my life I have been a heavy...
Published on January 16, 2025 - Page 6
Who won the neck decorating contest? It was a tie. *** What do mermaids use to wash their fins? Tide. *** What did the skillet eat on its birthday?...
Published on January 16, 2025 - Page 6
We've spilled a lot of ink over the past two years about the noise nuisance the growing sport of pickleball can cause in populated areas. So, the...
Published on January 16, 2025 - Page 6
They're gonna post the new and unnecessary community services coordinator internally. Let me translate that for ya: they already know who they're...
Published on January 15, 2025 - Page 16
U.S. Sen. John Fetterman is seldom shy about making his feelings known. Whether he is walking the halls of the Russell Senate Office Building in his...
Published on January 15, 2025 - Page 16
President Donald Trump is coming into office with a mandate to make federal government more efficient. He's even forming a new Department of...
Published on January 15, 2025 - Page 16
InsideSources.com Two sobering mental health data sets are worth reviewing as 2025 begins. Although these illustrate a widespread national problem,...
Published on January 15, 2025 - Page 16
InsideSources.com Cyclone Chido struck the island of Mayotte in December, causing significant devastation to the 300,000 residents of the French...
Published on January 15, 2025 - Page 16
My boss was honest with me today. He pulled up to work with his sweet new car this morning and I complimented him on it. He replied, "Well, if you...
Published on January 14, 2025 - Page 6
A year of widening political divisions ended with the sobering news confidence in the nation's judicial system has also taken a hit, dropping to a...
Published on January 14, 2025 - Page 6
The long battle against standardized testing appears to be over -- and the tests won. It's hard to come to any other conclusion after hearing Central...