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Has the American ship just arrived or long ago set sail?

Letters to the editor

Kimball Shinkoskey Woods Cross, Utah Many Americans believe we have arrived at the highest reaches of military, political, economic and social glory. Our president regularly tells us he has been given an overwhelming mandate to govern in the interest of the people and that we are finally entering America’s “Golden Age.” America won both World War I and World War II. No foreign national government has attacked our homeland since 1812. For 250 years we have basked in the “rule of law” rather than given in to any despot’s arbitrary and capricious rule. We have gorgeous ...

Dear Annie: We’ve done everything, but it wasn’t enough

Columns

Dear Annie: My husband and I took in five siblings after both of their parents died, even though we were already raising a large family of our own. Overnight, our lives changed. The children were 7, 9, 12, 13 and 15 when they came to us, and we did our best to give them safety, stability and love. We showed up for school events, sports, camps and counseling, though one child’s severe behavioral struggles made daily life especially difficult. Now they are adults, and four of them have cut ties with us, saying we “gave them trauma.” That accusation has been heartbreaking after all ...

Excessive power costs

Letters to the editor

Chris Potalivo Boalsburg An article on excessive costs for power and Gov. Shapiro, beating his chest to fix it, ran recently. Once again, the Democrats are trying to fix what they broke. In April of 2023 the Bechtel Corporation abandoned their plans for a massive power plant in Renovo, Pa. This decimated a community and doomed us to these excessive prices. So Democrat Gov. Shapiro, why don’t you fix what YOUR party broke and, somehow, convince the Bechtel Corp to resubmit the plans and this time put down the ignorant who do not understand how the electrical grid ...

Celebrating Mother’s Day with a look at mothers in collectibles

Columns

Celebrate Mother’s Day with a look at mothers in collectibles! Decorative arts are filled with images of mothers in domestic scenes, attending to household responsibilities, or enjoying time with their children. Mothers and children are often pictured in advertisements, selling images of ...

Spring in full force: Don’t forget about the Centre County Grange Fair!

Columns

Spring has finally arrived, unfolding with flowers poking through the soil, longer days, and the feeling of renewal as the sun hits your skin for the first time in a while. For most Pennsylvania farmers, spring brings the start of the planting season. This marks a quiet but powerful start of growing not only crops but also growing hope for a better tomorrow not only in agriculture but also as a community. The thoughts and brainstorming begin within the community for people of all ages who are thinking ahead about what exhibits they might proudly show at the Centre County Grange Fair this ...

Ending gerrymandering

Columns

In the debate over redistricting, one truth is too often buried beneath legal jargon and partisan maneuvering: Gerrymandering is, at its core, about voter dilution. It is the quiet engineering of political outcomes, line by line, until communities that should speak with strength are instead reduced to whispers. For decades, one of the most consequential tactics has been “cracking,” splitting cohesive communities, often made up of Black voters, across multiple districts so they become a minority everywhere and a majority nowhere. The impact is profound. A population large enough to ...