Today, we enter phase yellow and the beginning of returning to 鈥渘ormal鈥�. It is also National Endangered Species Day. It is not a day of celebration but of recognition that in Pennsylvania we, as good stewards, know we have 11 of 71 native mammals extinct. We also know we have 22 endangered ...
In an commentary in the April 26 edition, Ed Nicholson seemed to bemoan the fact that staying at home has slowed the pandemic we are all living with. Ed does not believe the news media, he believes fake doctor and would-be king Trump. I'm surprised he has not taken the cure. If he had listened ...
In his rants about the media and the current political climate, Mr. "Ed" Nicholson made some disingenuous comments about certain political leaders and about the current state of media -- read "fake news".When I read an commentary)in the April 26 edition, I prefer precise language that avoids ...
Symbols. They have one job: To evoke emotion, producing an immediate response absent of critical thought. It doesn鈥檛 matter if it鈥檚 a corporate logo, a traffic sign, or a flag. You don鈥檛 think, you just react. Symbols have been used to manipulate those who don鈥檛 want to think since ...
I am writing in response to the May 7, 2020, letter to the editor Bill Sines. Mr. Sines makes the claim that 鈥渃harter would be better than public schools Unfortunately, Mr. Sines is misinformed on so many levels that I worry the readers of the 缅北禁地 might come away getting the wrong ...
Governor Wolf ordered the closure of all businesses he deemed 鈥渘on-life-sustaining鈥� on March 19, 2020.Fifty days later, one-third of Pennsylvania is beginning to reopen under the governor鈥檚 three-phase, color-coded approach. Yet, certain businesses in these regions are still being ...