Opinion
Published on December 15, 2025 - Page 6
E
ven among the many sobering stories of cruelty and injustice arising from the Trump administration’s obsessive anti-immigration crusade, the story...
Published on December 15, 2025 - Page 6
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You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen. And yes, you still recall the most famous reindeer of all. But how did that red-...
Published on December 14, 2025 - Page 8
Sir Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz have become adept at scrambling to deal with the latest bad news from Washington. Their meeting...
Published on December 14, 2025 - Page 8
ROSE: It's a shame agents of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement have been turned into political avatars by people on both sides of our...
Published on December 14, 2025 - Page 8
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Hanukkah is arriving on our doorstep, and this year feels different. Before explaining why, a recap of the holiday's basic...
Published on December 14, 2025 - Page 8
To Pete "If I state the facts, he calls it complaining." I would suggest he does a better job with the paper. I sent my last letter to the editor. He...
Published on December 13, 2025 - Page 15
Here's some surprising political news: A referendum campaign is gaining support in Massachusetts, of all places, to reverse the state's 2016...
Published on December 13, 2025 - Page 15
ROSE: From the land of lake-effect snow, Bloomsburg's new public works director, Brady Brink, has brought a fresh approach to a chronic town problem...
Published on December 13, 2025 - Page 15
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Traditional healthcare is in crisis. Physician shortages are worsening while wait times for appointments have reached record highs...
Published on December 13, 2025 - Page 15
Okay. After the longest government shutdown in our nation's history, largely fought over the health care issue, on Dec. 11, the GOP-led Senate...
Published on December 13, 2025 - Page 15
On behalf of the Columbia-Montour Aging Office Inc., I would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to the individuals, businesses and community...
Published on December 12, 2025 - Page 16
In early November, a conservative Supreme Court justice showed a cleareyed understanding of the threat President Trump poses to the constitutional...
Published on December 12, 2025 - Page 16
ROSE: By all accounts, the Bloomsburg Area High School Marching Band did its school and the community proud during its participation in ceremonies...
Published on December 12, 2025 - Page 16
All Democrats are crazy, and now that I have your attention, I apologize to the moderate ones that are just being drug along because they never...
Published on December 12, 2025 - Page 16
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She's sitting in a chair by the window. It's 2:14 p.m. on a Tuesday. The home health aide left an hour ago. Her daughter won't call...
Published on December 11, 2025 - Page 15
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) thinks he has a new idea: no taxes on health care. He has proposed making all out-of-pocket health care expenses tax...
Published on December 11, 2025 - Page 15
We don't need more gun control. We need more control of our guns.
As explained by cops reporter Leon Bogdan in a story published Wednesday, police...
Published on December 11, 2025 - Page 15
It has been recently implied by the editor of this publication that proposed changes to the committee structure of the town of Bloomsburg are in some...
Published on December 11, 2025 - Page 15
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The healthcare system is changing in ways patients feel every day -- in longer wait times, higher bills and fewer choices. One of...
Published on December 10, 2025 - Page 6
President Trump is stepping out of his White House bubble to address economic gloom; we expect he'll make time to listen as well as speechify.
He...
Published on December 10, 2025 - Page 6
The spread of forever chemicals through our area appears to have happened in part through an effort to reuse some of the waste we create each day for...
Published on December 10, 2025 - Page 6
I would like to preface this by saying that I am not against providing shelter to homeless people or people in need of shelter. However, I am...
Published on December 10, 2025 - Page 6
What is all this talk about God? If there is a God what would I expect to see?
What criteria would I invent that must be met? At what point would I...
Published on December 10, 2025 - Page 6
In recent times, the Citizens Advisory of Pennsylvania, initially an anti-mask and anti-vax group, has disturbingly redirected its focus towards...
Published on December 9, 2025 - Page 12
As Donald Trump's Thanksgiving Day deadline for a Ukraine peace agreement came and went last month, the Russia expert Mark Galeotti pointed to a...
Published on December 9, 2025 - Page 12
Bloomsburg Mayor Justin Hummel would rather not hear your opinion.
It's hard to come to any other conclusion after the recently re-elected Hummel...
Published on December 9, 2025 - Page 12
The mayor's recent comments regarding meeting changes make one thing clear: his push for these smaller, private two-person meetings isn't about...
Published on December 8, 2025 - Page 6
On a Friday in September, more than 100 Americans boarded boats in the San Juans and set sail for British Columbia's Salt Spring Island. The flotilla...
Published on December 8, 2025 - Page 6
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It started like any other Monday at Long Island's Belmont Park outside New York City. The weather was warming up as the annual...
Published on December 7, 2025 - Page 21
I never liked John Fetterman. He was too far to the left, or so I thought. Too weird. Too much of a narcissist who did things the way he did to...