Have you ever overheard a person delivering a piece of advice so brutal and honest that you’re glad it’s aimed at someone else?
That’s the kind of tough love that was la...
When two teenaged residents escaped from the Summit Academy reform school last week, residents nearby in Summit Township said they should have been notified immediately....
Common sense measures and bipartisanship are hard to come by in Harrisburg these days. So it’s with great pleasure that we hold up SB 1197 — also known as the Clean Stat...
A local newspaper keeps covenenant with its community. We do our best to tell the truth.
We hold up a mirror, knowing sometimes the image that’s reflected there won’t be...
“It doesn't, and you can't, I won't, and it don't
it hasn't, it isn't, it even ain't, and it shouldn't, it couldn't”
— Frank Zappa “Apostrophe,” 1974
To determine what s...
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The true test of a person’s character — of a community’s character — is what they do when disaster strikes.
Disaster struck Butler on Wednesday night, when torren...
Tom Ridge never put up with shenanigans from emergency management officials. We should not put up with it, either.
Old-timers will recall Ridge’s earliest days as a cong...
If you’re a cynic, you would probably say we were always destined to end up here: one week into the state’s new fiscal year with an unsigned budget, a looming structural...
Should we just expect every single one of President Donald Trump’s initiatives to be rolled out in the most bumbling, inept and self-defeating way possible?
The latest e...
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a letter written by John Adams to his wife, Abigail, on July 3, 1776, in Philadelphia. It was the day after the Declaration of Indepe...
