Greetings fellow readers. It’s time for a little audience participation, and I am looking for your help. With the election behind us, the media’s first…
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The disgruntled people who voted for Vice President Kamala Harris need to stop with the hand wringing, recriminations and Monday morning quarterbacking. She lost. I…
I love the Christmas holiday season, and thanks to all the retailers and carol-blaring radio stations kicking into high gear weeks before Thanksgiving, the season…
A top priority of Pennsylvania educators is to get more, and better qualified, people into the profession. Paying student teachers for their work in schools…
Now that the election is over, some of us are elated, others deeply disappointed, and many just glad it is over. The level of anger…
George Will’s Nov. 6 column (“American self-reliance lost amid government payments”) repeats the traditional complaint about Americans’ alleged loss of self-reliance, cradle-to-grave coddling, the nanny…
PHILADELPHIA — Nick Nurse hasn’t looked at the standings yet in this 2024-25 NBA season. In part because it’s so early, in part because he…
They’ve had lackluster performances the week after losses to Ohio State and Michigan and stumbles against lesser teams. The Penn State Nittany Lions vowed there…
There’s no mistaking the leaf loader. It sounds like 40 John Deere lawn tractors as it slowly makes its way to our block, hitched behind…
They say your eyes are the windows to your soul, but I’ve known some people who have eyes and no soul. A better axiom is…
You may have seen someone wearing one of those T-shirts that proclaims, “I’m with Stupid.” There’s usually an arrow pointing left or right. An internet…
The following is a dramatization of a conversation that probably took place about a decade ago between top PennDOT District 5 executive and an engineer…
Let me tell you a couple of stories about my neighbors. One day, when my dad was in his mid-70s, he was at the local…
While history has examples where ideologies led to suffering (e.g., fascism, communism), categorizing Donald Trump’s movement entirely as “dangerous nonsense” overlooks complex issues (“Trump’s political…
The Associated Press has presented its spin on the first Bob Casey-Dave McCormick debate (“Casey, McCormick hammer home their attacks in Senate debate” (Reading Eagle, Oct.…
PHILADELPHIA — The Eagles had just won a football game, and sometimes there are people who are paid to remind the media that what counts…