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Opinion

How to meditate — for the chronically anxious

Columns

Mindfulness meditation: It’s all the rage. If you’ve been anywhere, talked to anyone or visited any social media site, you’ve likely heard about some of the positive effects of mindfulness meditation — how it can help with a wide variety of problems like depression, stress, insomnia, ...

Trump’s real agenda

Letters to the editor

Margie Swoboda Julian Donald Trump promised Americans a booming economy: “…the best jobs, the biggest paychecks, the brightest economic future the world has ever seen.” As egg prices reach a new high (just in time for Easter), he’s now bracing Americans for economic turmoil. His ...

Postcards over posts

Columns

Dear Annie: In a nutshell: I have been off social media for about five years, and this year I have made it a resolution to reduce my screen time. My screen time average is down to about an hour a day. If I had a way to measure it, I’d say my mental health has improved greatly. A year or two ...

Lest we forget

Letters to the editor

Joseph R. Fischer Northumberland Death found four Third Infantry Division soldiers in a nighttime training accident in Lithuania on March 25 when their M88A2 Hercules armored recovery vehicle sank into 15 feet of bog mud. It was a lethal non-combat accident, the kind that makes military ...

Taking measures to prevent skin from thinning as one ages

Columns

DEAR DR. ROACH: I thought you could help with a stubborn problem. I am a healthy and active 78-year-old woman who, I admit, likes to look younger than my age. The problem is my skin, especially on my hands and arms; I get these bruises that look unsightly and take a while to resolve. I hear it ...

Chaos, not efficiency

Letters to the editor

Patty Satalia State College Who doesn’t support increasing government efficiency? Efficiency makes sense, but wholesale dismantling of government won’t make it more efficient, and it certainly won’t make it more effective. When it comes to managing our home budget, we don’t ...