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Christmas present

Letters

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 ...

What other newspapers are saying: This holiday season, support your hometown businesses

Editorials

Tens of millions of Americans will do most, if not all, their holiday season shopping with giant online retail operations this year. They will argue that it is more convenient or safer for them to do so rather than patronize local brick-and-mortar stores. Now, Fort Dodge will soon become home to one of Amazon’s last-mile delivery stations. The massive building is being constructed now. This is great news for the future of the community, but it is no reason to give up on the existing local retailers. Local retailers, from mom-and-pop specialty shops to the big-box stores, rely on ...

When disasters strike

Letters

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 ...

Budget’s size unmoored from reality

Editorials

We agree with one assessment of our state budget The Center Square reported on in Tuesday’s edition: The cost of the new budget is too high. That view, expressed by the Commonwealth Foundation and other conservative organizations and officials, is grounded in simple realities. Pennsylvania ...

Enough is enough

Letters

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 ...

State needs more energy, sensible regulation

Other Commentaries

In July, nearly two dozen companies gathered in Pittsburgh, along with President Donald Trump and other leaders, to announce investments in data centers and needed energy infrastructure. Totaling more than $90 billion, the expenditures would equal nearly ten percent of Pennsylvania’s gross domestic product, inducing a headline that described the prospect as “truly mind-blowing.” Since then, some have begun erecting regulatory obstacles to this development. Presented as consumer protections, many are more likely to be economy killers — and “mind-blowing” for would-be ...