Opinion
Published on November 23, 2025 - Page 21
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Do states with Democratic governors "subsidize" states with Republican governors? That claim circulated widely last summer during...
Published on November 23, 2025 - Page 21
ROSE: Take a bill -- any bill -- out of your wallet or purse, and read the fine print: "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private...
Published on November 23, 2025 - Page 21
I've got this thing I like to do. I collect odd hats and eyeglasses -- the weirder the better. Why? They're set aside for when I visit or Facetime my...
Published on November 23, 2025 - Page 21
Elections are meant to belong to the people -- not the government. Voting is the foundation of our voice, our power and our trust in our institutions...
Published on November 22, 2025 - Page 15
When Eisaku Sato, a former prime minister of Japan, received the Nobel peace prize in 1974 after committing his country to not making nuclear bombs,...
Published on November 22, 2025 - Page 15
ROSE: At the tender age of 12, Saanvi Khara of Danville has worked her way up to a leadership position in the National Student Council. She was...
Published on November 22, 2025 - Page 15
I am responding to Jeff Osgood's "Not ballast, but possibility" (Nov. 20, p. 12).
To introduce myself, I was born at Bloomsburg Hospital, graduated...
Published on November 22, 2025 - Page 15
Yesterday, Sunday, Nov. 16, my wife showed me a video posted by Frank Spaid who has the Community Hope Chest on Ida St. in Berwick.
First, I want to...
Published on November 21, 2025 - Page 15
ROSE: Bloomsburg has done more to protect residents of low-lying neighborhoods than every other flood-prone community in Pennsylvania. Because it has...
Published on November 21, 2025 - Page 15
Did something spook President Donald Trump? Late last week, he announced he would roll back tariffs on food, just days after he embraced a much more...
Published on November 21, 2025 - Page 15
After considering the massive complexity and confusion caused by Talen's request to change the zoning in Anthony and Derry Townships from...
Published on November 21, 2025 - Page 15
America was established with Christian values. Our Declaration Of Independence refers to God four times. Arguably, 55 of its 56 signers were...
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....