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A debate over the deficit is just what America needs

With unemployment low, inflation high and interest rates on the rise, the time is right to bring back an old idea: bipartisan talks to reduce the federal budget deficit. ...

September 08, 2022 Other Voices

How to stop so many of Putin’s critics from dying

Quick, somebody repair the slippery floors and close all the open hospital windows in Moscow. One was obviously responsible for the freak-accident death of Ravil Maganov,...

September 08, 2022 Other Voices

Congress must protect crucial data privacy legislation

Congress is on the verge of passing a major federal data privacy law that will finally put some guardrails on what information companies can gather from Americans and how...

September 07, 2022 Other Voices

Trail volunteers deserve our thanks

There’s an anniversary coming up next month that deserves to be recognized as a lot of people doing a lot of good for their neighbors. It will be 30 years in October sin...

September 07, 2022 Editorial

Don't pay your spouse's student loan without a prenup

The federal government’s decision to forgive $10,000 of student loan debt is good news not only for millions of borrowers, but also for their partners. While student loan...

September 06, 2022 Other Voices

A Ukrainian nuclear plant is under attack. We can’t risk another Chernobyl

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, lies along the Dnieper River in southeastern Ukraine. After Russian forces brutally invaded Ukraine six months ago...

September 06, 2022 Other Voices

Veterans deserve top care in face of harrowing stats

On Friday, we learned about an Evans City community group founded by Deb and Jim Smith called A.J.’s Stop 22, which has raised a cumulative $108,450 for the American Foun...

September 06, 2022 Our Opinion

Pay their way

There have been thousands of Americans who did not go to college, as they knew that they would be unable to afford to go. My generation and many younger people today were...

September 03, 2022 Letters to the Editor

Fairness?

So, Rep. Mike Kelly, who is a multi-millionaire and whose car dealerships received $1 million dollars from the Paycheck Protection Act, thinks my wife and I, who are bare...

September 03, 2022 Letters to the Editor

Berkheimer

This past year, I’ve received, as have others, four bills for taxes from Berkheimer. Two were for the city and two for the school district. To pay these bills, you had a ...

September 03, 2022 Letters to the Editor

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