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Democrats need a bigger tent on abortion

The endless debate over what went wrong for Democrats in the last election has almost entirely avoided what has become the party’s signature issue: abortion. Democrats be...

January 30, 2025 Other Voices

Caution as temps soar, ice melts

Southern Armstrong Regional Police Department — which serves Freeport, Gilpin Township and Ford City — urged residents to stay off frozen bodies of water as the temperat...

January 28, 2025 Our Opinion

India has good reason to help shore up Trump’s wall

India is proud of its diaspora. People of Indian extraction tend to earn well over the average wage in most countries, and often fit seamlessly and unobtrusively into loc...

January 28, 2025 Other Voices

Keep on fighting for Marc Fogel

It’s the story that we all want to have a happy ending, but that happy ending doesn’t happen unless the push to free Marc Fogel continues. As Sen. Dave McCormick begins ...

January 28, 2025 Our Opinion

California's recovery must price in the true cost of risk

Even before the terrible wildfires in Los Angeles County have been quelled, the dead mourned and evacuees sheltered, California leaders are taking steps to accelerate reb...

January 28, 2025 Other Voices

Trump’s protectionism could increase free trade

Free trade is in trouble. That’s hardly startling news when the U.S. has an avowed protectionist in the White House, but the problem runs deeper than it may at first appe...

January 28, 2025 Other Voices

Restoring fiscal control can’t wait much longer

Since the start of the new year, the bond market has been urging Congress to come to terms with America’s spiraling budget problems. Soon it might be demanding immediate ...

January 27, 2025 Other Voices

Trump should reverse Biden’s US Steel decision

Consent of the governed is one of the founding principles of our country. Embedded in the Declaration of Independence, it harks to the frustrations of American colonists ...

January 27, 2025 Other Voices

What should we give to local thrift stores?

It’s temping to use donation-based stores and agencies, like Goodwill and Saint Vincent de Paul, as outlets for items we don’t want anymore, but don’t exactly want to tra...

January 27, 2025 Our Opinion

Gift of marker should be reconsidered

“No immediate benefits to the community” was the reasoning for the Connoquenessing Township supervisors declining the offered gift of a marker commemorating the July 13 a...

January 25, 2025 Letters to the Editor

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