Editor: What is the rationale in linking border security with Ukraine aid in the same bill? Certainly each issue merits careful attention on its own.…
Posts published in “Opinion”
Editor: The January jobs report shows the unemployment rate at 3.7%, continuing two years of unemployment of under 4%, the longest such stretch in more…
Editor: Three years ago under President Donald Trump we had the most secure border in the last 45 years. He made deals with Mexico, Guatemala…
Editor: I’m not in favor of the property tax increase enacted by the Berks County commissioners. A 9% tax hike is too much at one…
Editor: This is in response to “Abortion access depends on voters” (Reading Eagle, Jan. 13). State Rep. Liz Hanbidge writes, “We must ensure that future…
Editor: Gov. Josh Shapiro should be praised for wanting to address the rising cost of higher education at Pennsylvania’s state universities. However, simply increasing taxpayer…
Editor: Voting for someone because they have a D or R after their name can have major consequences. We all like supporting the home team…
Editor: Our republic’s foundational principles are under siege. We may even be past the tipping point of the United States of America inexorably morphing into…
Editor: I believe America’s decline started when we elected a president who had neither American nor Christian values — Barack Obama. He said he would…
Editor: I’m writing in response to (“Berks tax increase hurts county’s senior citizens,” Reading Eagle, Dec. 22). State Sen. Chris Gephard sent out an email…
Editor: Christine Flowers’ Jan. 18 column (“An appalling reaction to Melania Trump’s mourning”) regarding people mocking the former first lady’s grief upset me also. As…
Editor: The proposed buyout of Spirit Airlines by JetBlue is a striking example of fewer airline competitors resulting in higher fares as well as reduced…
Editor: I am about to turn 79 and was raised in the church. I’m no theologian, but I did learn the basics of what is…
Editor: I gag whenever I hear from a hiker that the Pennsylvania Game Commission is a “conservation partner.” The local destruction of the forests on…
Editor: It could be argued that there has always been a muted undercurrent of sociopathy corrupting American politics and those who seek to spit-shine their…
Editor: Dr. Myra Forrest’s solution to educational outcome disparities between, as she defines it, the “haves” and “have-nots” is for the state to continue to…