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Opinion

Thank you

Letters

As the year comes to an end, Special Olympics Pennsylvania, Susquehanna Valley Region and Team Lycoming wanted to say Thank You One and All for your outstanding support to the athletes of Lycoming County. Whether you served as a coach, was a volunteer, participated in the First Annual Polar ...

Cameras belong in courtrooms

Editorials

Those who follow news reports of criminal cases have likely seen photographs and/or video captured during out-of-state court proceedings and wondered why they don’t see similar scenes from inside Pennsylvania’s courtrooms. The short answer is: Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule ...

The state of the Fourth Estate

Letters

In the old days, men had the rack. Now they have the Press. That is an improvement, certainly, but still incorrect and demoralizing. Somebody - was it Burke?- called journalism the fourth estate. That was true at the time, no doubt. But at the present moment, it is the only estate. It ...

State’s special needs students need school choice

Other Commentaries

Shannon Mitchell will never forget the first words from her nonverbal eight-year-old daughter, Brianna. “Hi, mama,” Briana said after getting off the bus on her first day at her new school. “I love you.” Before this precious moment, Brianna languished at her Philadelphia district ...

The quiet engine behind youth’s malaise

Other Commentaries

For years, pointing out the obvious was considered impolite: America’s biggest, most distortionary transfer of wealth does not flow from elites to the working class. Nor does it show up as corporate welfare. It flows from the relatively young and poor to the relatively old and wealthy. It’s ...