With the coronavirus coming back strong, a number of governors have already ordered new — or rather, renewed — steps to combat the disease. Most are reluctant to mandate widespread business closings, however. There are very good reasons for that. Our economy may not be able to withstand ...
To the editor: I totally agree with Mr. McClure in his assessment of our election system. We are on the cusp of becoming the USSA, United Socialist States of America. This election for president seems to show that the founders vision of this republic has been erased by the Democrats and ...
Guest book reviews by Christine May, Circulation Assistant at the Juniata County Library. “Intensity” by Dean Koontz (Adult Fiction in print and eBook) Chyna and Laura drive from San Francisco, where they are both studying for their master’s degrees in psychology at the University of ...
Thankfully, we have learned — at the cost of tens of thousands of possibly preventable deaths — that COVID-19 finds nursing homes to be good hunting grounds. At one time earlier in the epidemic, more than half the nation’s deaths from the disease in many state were among residents of ...
To the editor: I respectfully request that Congress pass the Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports Act, H.R. 5434/S. 2602, in 2020. The bipartisan RPM Act protects the right to convert an automobile or motorcycle into a racecar used exclusively at the track. Modifying a vehicle into a ...
I’m a conservative, and I guess I should be writing a column about my great distress resulting from this election. But I’m not going to write that column, because it’s not what I feel. I’m actually quite upbeat and optimistic about the country that I love. With all my genuine, and ...
More than a few people who voted for Joe Biden as our next president were not unhappy with one aspect of incumbent President Donald Trump, we suspect. It was his pledge to battle the federal bureaucracy on behalf of the American people. Trump calls it “the swamp” — and there is ample ...
To the editor: So after COVID-19 has been in the country since at least February and a face mask mandate from the Pennsylvanian Department of Health since April, Mifflin County officials have finally decided to urge residents to wear masks. Too little too late, what Mifflin County should ...
The 2020 presidential election is not over yet. There are multiple legal challenges and recounts pending in key states, and, under a long-standing legal process, those events must play out before a winner is officially declared. I know roughly half the nation does not want to hear that, but ...
Census Bureau officials’ claim the agency was able to collect information from 99.9% of the households in America strains credibility. It would during normal times, not to mention the middle of a deadly epidemic. If officials in several states, cities and organizations are right, the bureau ...