Opinion

Published on October 4, 2025 - Page 8
The sheer volume of headlines tells its own tale. Russian drones over Poland and Romania. Russian fighter jets in Estonian airspace. Russian aircraft...
Published on October 4, 2025 - Page 8
ROSE: USAA, the financial services company, has been looking to generate more business by running a series of television commercials celebrating the...
Published on October 4, 2025 - Page 8
InsideSources.com Vaccines are a vital tool that saves millions of lives annually. Concerningly, the U.S. government wants to cut funding for a key...
Published on October 4, 2025 - Page 8
Last week, my wife and I biked Lycoming County's Pine Creek Rail Trail from Jersey Shore to Waterville (took our tourism dollars out of Montour...
Published on October 3, 2025 - Page 16
Not a day goes by that I don’t shake my head in disbelief at my president’s latest bout of ignorance, malfeasance, dishonesty, cruelty and complete...
Published on October 3, 2025 - Page 16
The events of the past week in Virginia mark a dark new stage in President Trump's effort to turn federal law enforcement into a personal tool of...
Published on October 3, 2025 - Page 16
ROSE: What else would we give but roses to Dillon Floral, which in one fell swoop wants to clean up some old soil pollution, expand its business and...
Published on October 3, 2025 - Page 16
As I write this, it is Oct. 1. The deadline for registered voters to request a mail-in ballot for the Nov. 4 election is Oct. 28. Mail-in voting is...
Published on October 3, 2025 - Page 16
Prior to Nov. 4, I will vote YES to retain our Supreme Court, Superior Court and Commonwealth Court judges and mail in my ballot. That is my right,...
Published on October 2, 2025 - Page 15
The limits of free speech and cancel culture will be percolating through the federal courts, and a new case offers a censorship warning to the...
Published on October 2, 2025 - Page 15
The federal government shut down on Wednesday after it ran out of money to pay for its operations. Almost immediately there were effects -- closed...
Published on October 2, 2025 - Page 15
With 2025 coming to an end in a few months, I thought we might review what we have learned about the evil Democrats so far this year. The top three...
Published on October 2, 2025 - Page 15
We the people... are Jimmy Kimmel. According to a 2024 analysis by the Democracy Fund as many as 41% of Americans could be open to a more...
Published on October 1, 2025 - Page 15
There's an old saying, often ascribed to Mark Twain: "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just...
Published on October 1, 2025 - Page 15
InsideSources.com On the eve of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Trump administration is rewriting...
Published on October 1, 2025 - Page 15
InsideSources.com President Trump is right. The Smithsonian is "out of control." And it should be a concern to all Americans, whether you agree with...
Published on September 30, 2025 - Page 16
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction: That law holds in politics as much as in physics. Yet Democrats are now squawking about President...
Published on September 30, 2025 - Page 16
If we're serious about rehabilitating those who have served their time in jail, a plan to build apartments to house recently paroled inmates should...
Published on September 30, 2025 - Page 16
Open letter to Sen. Dave McCormick, copy to Sen. John Fetterman. The report that the Secretary of Defense has summoned all top leaders of the US...
Published on September 30, 2025 - Page 16
InsideSources.com It is always tempting to be gloomy about China's domination of the world's mineral supply. China is the top producer of two-thirds...
Published on September 30, 2025 - Page 16
InsideSources.com Large nonprofit hospitals are distorting the healthcare system by engaging in pricing that increases costs on taxpayers. Our nation...
Published on September 29, 2025 - Page 6
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II had it right when they gave us a lesson in song back in 1949. "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught" was an...
Published on September 29, 2025 - Page 6
InsideSources.com Of all the forgotten tales brought back to life in this column, this one may be the most obscure of all. You'll have to dig deep...
Published on September 29, 2025 - Page 6
Have you heard the one about the runaway horse? It's a terrible tale of WHOA! *** Where do horses go when they're sick? The horsepital. *** Which...
Published on September 28, 2025 - Page 21
President Trump is tired of globalists' exploitation of Western societies. Speaking before the United Nations General Assembly, the president offered...
Published on September 28, 2025 - Page 21
ROSE: In 1875, Alexander Graham Bell, only 28, confirms his idea for what he calls "electric speech" works, setting the stage for an invention that...
Published on September 28, 2025 - Page 21
Let me first acknowledge my appreciation of the members of Shiloh UCC in Danville as to their Letter to the Editor -- I agree with them. I grew up in...
Published on September 28, 2025 - Page 21
The first time I held a dying woman in my arms, I was a student nurse, just a few months past my 18th birthday. When the woman's call bell lit up,...
Published on September 27, 2025 - Page 8
A founding principle of the United States, enshrined in the Constitution's opening amendment, is our republic depends on citizens' freedom to...
Published on September 27, 2025 - Page 8
ROSE: Arguably the best news for Berwick in a long while was the report by our Susan Schwartz that a bankruptcy judge in Texas has approved a sale...