Elsa Winch Lock Haven In my lifetime, I witnessed the televised conflict of the Vietnam war and its end with the Saigon airlifts. Especially vivid are my memories of seeing American soldiers falling wounded or worse in the rice paddies, the faces of Vietnamese mothers desperately passing ...

George Polycranos Port Matilda On Nov. 4, Pennsylvania voters will have the opportunity to vote YES to retain our outstanding Supreme Court Justices, our Superior Court Justice and our Commonwealth Justice. The Pennsylvania Bar Association has recommended that these justices, who have ...

Willow Eby-Fischer Northumberland In less than a week, we have seen a minister, hands raised in prayer and eyes closed, shot in the head with a pepper ball by an ICE agent firing from a rooftop. Another federal agent aimed his gun directly at a woman in Berwyn, Chicago, because she dared to ...

GREG PETERSEN State College As if the elimination of federal funds for WPSU TV & FM weren’t enough, the entity that holds the broadcast license for those stations — the Penn State Board of Trustees — made a decision to shutter the stations completely. For accuracy’s sake, it ...

Mark Givler Jersey Shore It has occurred to me that a few quotes I’ve come across over the years could well shed some light on the moment in which we now find ourselves. For starters here is what the great American novelist Norman Mailer had to say about democracy and fascism: “I ...

Maggie Waggoner Lewisburg In one of the most despicable and cruel acts yet carried out by the Trump Administration, ICE agents descended from blackhawk helicopters in Chicago to unleash terror on law-abiding American citizens. Innocent men, women, senior citizens and children were accosted ...