Patty Satalia State College Under pressure from the president, the Environmental Protection Agency has repealed its 2009 finding that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases “endanger public health and welfare.” That finding wasn’t symbolic. It was the legal backbone for regulating ...
Each Saturday, The Express community newspaper highlights people, groups and activities our readers deem worthy of applause. Liz, Marg and I were pleasantly surprised when we visited The Second Cup on Friday, Feb. 6. A kind gentleman there treated us all to a free lunch. When we asked his ...
Karen Stoehr State College As a concerned citizen, I urge our nation’s governors to stand firm against calls to federalize control of American elections. The Constitution deliberately assigns the administration of elections to the states. The Founders understood that decentralizing this ...
I don’t drink coffee, and yet I’ve been wanting to write about Viennese coffeehouse culture for quite a while now, and even wrote the first paragraph a couple of months ago. Because Viennese coffeehouses are so different from your typical American cafe, and because their many different ...
May we talk about spiritual matters? “In the beginning,” the Bible opens, “God created the heavens and the earth.” Several lines down, God says, let humankind “have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of ...
Dear Annie: I’ve had a dear friend for nearly a decade. He has been addicted to meth, heroin, alcohol — you name it. For years, I was the savior he ran to when everything fell apart. He’s married and has two young children. Before his youngest was born, he was a full-blown meth addict. ...