Opinion
Published on February 25, 2024 - Page 25
ROSE: If you have errands to run in downtown Bloomsburg, you can still try to get them done before 10 a.m. That's when enforcement of parking meter...
Published on February 25, 2024 - Page 25
Wanting to address something I have read about numerous times here in this paper, I want to state very clearly that the whole idea of "climate change...
Published on February 25, 2024 - Page 25
and Josh T. Smith
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Taxes on sugar-sweetened sodas, heralded as a solution to obesity and poor health, are not the silver bullets...
Published on February 24, 2024 - Page 16
Should Beaver Stadium's football field be named for the late Penn State coach Joe Paterno? That's a topic worthy of public discussion.
Regrettably,...
Published on February 24, 2024 - Page 16
ROSE: Fathers play a tremendously important role in the social and emotional development of their children. A big part of their job is simply being...
Published on February 24, 2024 - Page 16
The fight for the 109th House district will be a fierce one, and I want to tell you the truth about who I am and why I am running on the Republican...
Published on February 24, 2024 - Page 16
Evy Lysk and I clearly get our information from two very different sources (See 2/21/24 "A Trump landslide is coming"). On each point she raises in...
Published on February 23, 2024 - Page 6
Why did the cat sit on the computer? It wanted to keep an eye on the mouse.
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What do you call a bear that's stuck in the rain? A drizzly bear...
Published on February 23, 2024 - Page 6
ROSE: The firm managing the business affairs of the Berwick Area School District is terminating the relationship. Its reason for bowing out deserves...
Published on February 22, 2024 - Page 15
We strongly believe Pennsylvania owes children in low-wealth school districts better educations than they're receiving now in their understaffed,...
Published on February 22, 2024 - Page 15
Consider these situations:
* You're eating at a sit-down restaurant with waiters. You spend $80 on a meal. Do you leave a tip, and how much?
* You've...
Published on February 22, 2024 - Page 15
This letter was inspired by M.J. Mahon's piece in Sunday's paper about the renovations occurring to Good Old Days on the southeast corner of East and...
Published on February 22, 2024 - Page 15
It should probably come as little surprise a majority of American millennial and Generation Z women identify as liberal.
A Gallup Poll released...
Published on February 21, 2024 - Page 16
Those autoworkers down south who are being courted by Shawn Fain should pay close attention to the message sent by Ford Motor Co. last week.
Chief...
Published on February 21, 2024 - Page 16
Pickleball is a fun, addictive sport -- best played as far as possible from anyone who isn't competing.
That's the lesson taught in this area in Espy...
Published on February 21, 2024 - Page 16
We Christians do pray for O'Biden, and when you pray for a president, you're also praying for your country.
It's not O'Biden's fault that he has...
Published on February 21, 2024 - Page 16
Addiction takes many forms: alcohol, drugs, gambling, nicotine, sex, shopping and eating to name a few.
The stories behind the stories that are in...
Published on February 21, 2024 - Page 16
The Republicans in Congress created $20 trillion of debt to the U.S. taxpayers by cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans and the most profitable...
Published on February 21, 2024 - Page 16
I watched a documentary last night about how pickles are made. It was jarring.
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I accidentally dropped some pickle in my Hawaiian punch; I guess...
Published on February 20, 2024 - Page 7
This is going to feel like a cautionary tale. That's because it is.
The nation's top cybersecurity agency has launched a program aimed at boosting...
Published on February 20, 2024 - Page 7
Back in October 2019, representatives from both parties passed a voting law that eliminated straight-party voting and instituted wider access to mail...
Published on February 20, 2024 - Page 7
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Even political junkies are feeling short of adrenaline. Two old men are stumbling toward November, spewing gaffes, garbled messages...
Published on February 20, 2024 - Page 7
With all the changes modern life is bringing us, here's one that makes me sad: romance is dying.
Here are some interesting romance trends, as...
Published on February 19, 2024 - Page 15
A new day is dawning for solar power in Pennsylvania. But some local officials have yet to wake up to the fact, judging by the rejection of two...
Published on February 19, 2024 - Page 15
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Sports fans were shaken by the mass shooting that marred the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl victory parade. It was another reminder...
Published on February 18, 2024 - Page 25
Pennsylvanians know our state is influential. Some of us know we're the center of the universe. People around the nation and the world care about...
Published on February 18, 2024 - Page 25
THORN: Dave McCormick's return Thursday to Columbia County, which he considers home, illustrated a number of things wrong with politics today.
First...
Published on February 18, 2024 - Page 25
There's nothing like your first Medicare card to remind you how old you're getting. Not that I didn't already have ample reminders. For example, my...
Published on February 18, 2024 - Page 25
What's the secret to having a smoking hot body as a senior? Cremation.
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What is a prize old people can win for aging? Atrophy.
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I used to know...
Published on February 17, 2024 - Page 6
The National Transportation Safety Board's investigation of the February 2023 Norfolk Southern train derailment at East Palestine, Ohio, near the...