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<em>An editorial from the Wilkes-Barre Citizens鈥 Voice:</em>The impending session of the state House of Representatives looks like a hockey game in which a fight breaks out before the first puck is dropped.Democrats clocked Republicans in the Nov. 8 midterm ...

EDITORIAL: Taking steps to reduce recidivism

The scene played out at least a couple of times in all those tough-as-nails crime thrillers Hollywood pumped out in the 1930s and 1940s.An inmate leaves 鈥渢he big house鈥 after serving his time. Once he hops on a bus, a suitcase in his hand and a few bucks in his pocket, the rest of the movie ...

Cheers and Jeers

<strong>JEER:</strong> Today is the 50th anniversary of the Immaculate Reception, one of the greatest plays in NFL history 鈥 maybe the greatest of all 鈥 and a play that needs no explanation in this region since it鈥檚 become such a part of Pittsburgh lore. The ...

Legacy of CHIP is more than medical

Pennsylvania鈥檚 Child Health Insurance Program is now 30 years old.Since 1992, it has been a pathway to healthy lives for children in the Keystone State and a guardrail protecting families. It was a model for the national CHIP program that did the same for kids and parents in other states.It ...

State should grow more of own teachers

Pennsylvania has an urgent need to convince more high school students to return to classrooms as teachers.According to the U.S. Department of Education, the number of college students completing education degrees declined by 25% from 2011 through 2020. In Pennsylvania, according to the state ...

For malls, it’s a time of reinvention

Nostalgia is as much a part of Christmas as eggnog, stockings hung by the fireplace and Burl Ives singing 鈥淩udolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.鈥滲ut, for most of us, the seasonal nostalgia does not include images of carolers in a town square, horse-drawn sleighs gliding across a snowy landscape ...