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When disasters strike

On a Friday in January, Theresa, a mom of three, returned home to find smoke pouring from her windows. Within minutes, everything she worked so hard for was gone. In the days that followed, volunteers from the American Red Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania — neighbors from our own community — comforted Theresa’s family and provided emergency lodging and recovery support. They continued checking in with Theresa for weeks, helping her family navigate their next steps. As Theresa said, “I’m not one to ask for help, but at that time, I needed it and I was glad there was someone ...

Christmas present

Charles Dickens wrote “A Christmas Carol” in 1843. We all know the story of the old man visited by the three ghosts on Christmas Eve that reminds him, and us, of our humanity and responsibility to care for one another. For me as a kid, I was terrified by the movie version’s Ghost of Christmas Future, the hooded skeleton that brought Scrooge to witness his own death. I just watched the movie again; the 1951 version. This time it isn’t the specter of death that scared me. It is the starving children hiding under the kingly robe of the Ghost of Christmas Present. “This ...

Enough is enough

We live in a time of social unrest that has become so violent to the extent never before seen or experienced. The real question is why? We have several media avenues for getting our information. The mainstream media such as ABC, CBS and NBC, all of which has become known as part of the swamp, spreading falsehoods propagated by Democrats like Maxine Waters, Shifty Adam Schiff and the like. Next, we have social media such as Facebook, Instagram, and messaging, which have taken on the position of allowing trash to be published. Finally, we have Fox News and Fox Nation reporting the facts ...

Residents say no

AI has its avaricious eye on a tract of land near you. After overcoming multiple threats within just this past decade, the Montour Preserve is again facing uncertainty. Talen Energy, the owner, is asking to rezone 870 acres surrounding the preserve for industrial use. Though plans are still under wraps (through use of non disclosure agreements), many believe Talen wants to construct a sprawling, multi-building data center near land that has served as a nature preserve and a family-friendly community treasure for over 50 years. Residents from small towns across Pennsylvania are ...

The downfall of William Nichols Jr.

I recently read Clifford A. Rieders' opinion in the Sun-Gazette and in my opinion, Mr. Nichols got the best deal he could get, even though it may not seem right to some. Mr. Nichols was out-numbered and he was not going to win. He might have entertained the thought of taking “everyone” down with him which would be justified, but I assume that was not an option with “everyone”. Even if Mr. Nichols tried, he not only would have still lost but most likely he would have faced an even worse penalty and perhaps total destruction of his life. “Everyone” was not kidding. So we ...

Mamdani’s total victory

Mamdani proclaimed to the world the night of his victory that “there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about.” In other words, Mamdani intends to insert government into every aspect of every New Yorker’s life. Of course such total penetration of people’s homes and lives has a name: it’s called totalitarianism. That’s when government power totally intrudes everywhere, and personal privacy occurs totally nowhere. Communism is the nice name for the sum total of this brutal intrusion of which Mamdani is now its most famous ...