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EDITORIAL: Reconsider automatically closing schools for prank threats

Students, parents and educators know the drill by now.The emergency text alert of a bomb threat goes out, forcing caregivers to scramble, cutting the school day short and spreading fear among students, parents and educators alike. Multiple schools across Northeast Pennsylvania have been ...

OP-ED: Matthew Perry and the cult of celebrity

I never saw an episode of 鈥淔riends,鈥 but that is probably because I am from the television era that began with black- and-white pictures and television screens so small you had to draw a chair up to the box to see a flickering image. Back then, celebrity was a byproduct of talent and ...

Warding off the danger to democracy

Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke often about the importance of history in the context of securing American鈥檚 democratic future.Just months before the U.S. entered World War II in 1941, at the dedication of the presidential library that bears his name at his home in Hyde Park, N.Y., FDR said, 鈥淎 ...

‘Voters got the message’ about mail-in ballot mistake in Greene County

news@greenecountymessenger.com鈥淨uite a few鈥 voters made their way to the Greene County elections office to cure their mail-in ballots for Tuesday鈥檚 election after a printing error provided incorrect instructions on how to vote in the commissioners race.That was how Commissioner Mike ...