Opinion
Published on December 29, 2025 - Page 6
The U.S. economy has been marked this year by the paradox of a rising stock market but a slowing labor market. Could the explanation be a...
Published on December 29, 2025 - Page 6
( EDITOR'S NOTE : Holy Cow History is on vacation this week, so we're printing a column originally written in June 2021 that we haven't yet run.)By J...
Published on December 29, 2025 - Page 6
What do New Year's Day parades have in common with Santa Claus? No one is awake to see either of them.
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What is a New Year's resolution?...
Published on December 28, 2025 - Page 21
When American conservatives abandon free-market principles, there's no telling what follows. The Heritage Foundation has been illustrating this the...
Published on December 28, 2025 - Page 21
ROSE: John Capozzelli is a very generous guy.
He was kind enough to share with our readers the story of how his incredibly detailed Nativity display...
Published on December 28, 2025 - Page 21
If you're anything like me, you're having a bit too much fun over the holiday season. Even the most committed healthy eaters reach for an extra...
Published on December 28, 2025 - Page 21
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At a recent peaceful Hanukkah celebration of Australian Jews at Sydney's Bondi Beach, two gunmen opened fire on families who were...
Published on December 27, 2025 - Page 11
The old maxim is we are not allowed to speak ill of the dead.
In Latin, because all Catholic school veterans understand Latin makes everything more...
Published on December 27, 2025 - Page 11
ROSE: Our recent story about the closing of Sneidman's Jewelry Store in downtown Bloomsburg surely stirred some melancholy among readers who came of...
Published on December 27, 2025 - Page 11
InsideSources.com
Those who serve in the military put themselves in harm's way to protect the country in its time of need, and benefits provided by...
Published on December 27, 2025 - Page 11
You might appreciate this. When I worked at Dundee Gardens in Wilkes Barre I did many things, including making freestanding Santas for the store for...
Published on December 27, 2025 - Page 11
For whom this Christmas bell trolls:
I'm challenging (again), Jim Hock, Jim Joline, Jim Sachetti, Daniel Miller, Stan Crone and Pharkwater (just for...
Published on December 26, 2025 - Page 11
Maryland needs to replace the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, as everyone who has driven on it knows. Yet construction to replace the structure is only...
Published on December 26, 2025 - Page 11
On Nov. 19, the Montour County Planning Commission listened to Talen Energy make arguments for the county to re-zone nearly 870 acres of Anthony...
Published on December 26, 2025 - Page 11
ROSE: History offers many examples of individuals whose imprisonment failed to extinguish their creativity: Miguel de Cervantes completed "Don...
Published on December 26, 2025 - Page 11
What a terrible, bloody week. From Rhode Island to Australia, innocent unarmed people were killed in cold blood by evil men with guns.
On Dec. 13, at...
Published on December 24, 2025 - Page 20
( EDITOR'S NOTE : An excerpt of the Gospel of Luke, chapter 2, verses 1-16.)
In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole...
Published on December 24, 2025 - Page 20
In early December, most Americans told AP-NORC pollsters they were done with charitable giving for the year.
In what can be one of the most important...
Published on December 24, 2025 - Page 20
If anything goes, then nothing matters. If there are no guard rails, no checks and balances, no respect or sense of decorum -- and people are fine...
Published on December 24, 2025 - Page 20
What do gingerbread men use when they break their legs? Candy canes!
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What do you call a reindeer ghost? Cari-boo!
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What's every parent's...
Published on December 23, 2025 - Page 12
By J. Mark Powell
InsideSources.com
Just how much do you know about classic Christmas songs? Test your knowledge.
1. Now a favorite of children, "...
Published on December 23, 2025 - Page 12
The children have been wondering why we haven't seen Santa at any of our public Concerned Citizens of Montour County meetings. Could it be that he...
Published on December 23, 2025 - Page 12
(Please note before I proceed, my thoughts strictly represent my personal feelings on the matter. They, in no way, represent any organization,...
Published on December 22, 2025 - Page 6
Suppose someone randomly walks up to you, cuts you with a knife -- and then offers you a bandage. You might accept the bandage, but would you be...
Published on December 22, 2025 - Page 6
InsideSources.com
A new word was entering America's vocabulary 90 years ago: teenagers.
True, adolescents had been around since the dawn of time....
Published on December 21, 2025 - Page 6
Consider two statements of fact. First, the United States has a lead on artificial intelligence, but allowing the sale of advanced semiconductors...
Published on December 21, 2025 - Page 6
ROSE: Residents of Rupert, Sunken Heights and other parts of Montour Township have to be feeling good since the 2023 clean-out of the municipal...
Published on December 21, 2025 - Page 6
InsideSources.com
As the United States retires the penny, it should also reexamine larger cash denominations. The nickel is an obvious inefficiency...
Published on December 21, 2025 - Page 6
As of the end of September of this year, there was no approved state or federal budget. The state has legal requirements to produce an approved...
Published on December 21, 2025 - Page 6
It is my hope that the governor and the legislature will repeal the state sales and the flat-rate income taxes and replace them with a graduated-...