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Dear Annie: From co-worker to confidante

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Dear Annie: I work in a small office where everyone is friendly, but one co-worker has taken “friendly” to a new level. Over the past year, she’s begun confiding in me about deeply personal issues: her marriage troubles, financial stress, arguments she’s had the night before. At first, I listened out of kindness. But it’s becoming a daily occurrence. These conversations can last an hour or more, and it’s starting to interfere with my work. I’ve fallen behind more than once because I didn’t know how to politely end things. What makes this tricky is that she outranks ...

Thompson’s retirement is overdue

Letters to the editor

Patty Satalia State College Representative Glenn “GT” Thompson’s weekly newsletter is a reminder of what he chooses to say—and what he carefully avoids. This week’s lone “Bad News” spotlighted misconduct in Congress. Yet Thompson named only a Democrat, omitting serious allegations involving two Republicans. Representative Tony Gonzales resigned following a House Ethics Committee investigation into an inappropriate relationship with a staffer. Representative Cory Mills is under investigation for alleged sexual misconduct, dating violence and campaign finance ...

Selective outrage

Letters to the editor

Bob Potter Boalsburg If a Democratic president had done even a fraction of what Donald Trump has done, Republicans would be screaming for impeachment hearings. Imagine the reaction from Republicans if Barack Obama or Joe Biden had run for office with 34 felony convictions and a trail of bankruptcies. Or if either tried to overturn a presidential election and incited a mob to storm the U.S. Capitol. What if a Democratic president talked about suspending constitutional rights, deployed federal forces into states over governors’ objections or bypassed Congress’s constitutional ...

Press Forward PA Wilds launches local news surveys in nine rural counties

Columns

How do you find out what’s happening in your community? Let’s talk about it. You may see me with my clipboard at farmers’ markets and festivals, asking questions about local news as part of my work with Press Forward PA Wilds, housed at Centre Foundation. Press Forward is a national initiative to strengthen local news and ensure communities have access to reliable news and trusted information. Through regional efforts like Press Forward PA Wilds, the program supports local reporters, expands coverage, and helps residents stay informed and connected. Our first step as a Press ...

Chasing success, losing sleep

Columns

Dear Annie: I was really excited when I landed my dream job a few months ago. It has great pay and a title that can really take me places. But now, just a few months in, I’m pulling my hair out. We’re in our “busy season,” which means lots of late nights and working weekends. Every time I finish one assignment, two more pop up. My problem isn’t the hours — I know busy season will end — it’s that I cannot sleep. For the past week, I’ve been lucky to get three or four hours a night. When my head hits the pillow, despite being exhausted, I start replaying every ...

Tiny little hypocrisies, untruths, and war propaganda?

Letters to the editor

Kimball Shinkoskey Woods Cross Recently we have been reminded of tiny little hypocrisies of the Trump administration. With the firing of Pam Bondi, one news outlet took us back to an earlier testimony before Congress, where she said in no uncertain terms that in her tenure at the Justice Department, “The partisanship and the weaponization of justice will be gone.” However, from the moment she was confirmed to the moment of her dismissal, she undertook the most obvious and flagrant partisanship and weaponization of justice ever seen in America. She hung a huge banner of the ...