Seventy-five years ago, New York held nearly 50 seats in the House of Representatives — 45 to be exact. It has 26 today. It’s not news that rural New York has been losing population, with its rural communities being hit particularly hard. That’s a story throughout the Rust Belt. The ...

Unfortunately, America has long been suffering from a crisis of civics. Put simply, many Americans are woefully ignorant about the structure and features of their government. But every so often, an opportunity emerges to reteach some basics. The media’s predictable shrieks and howls of ...

Some people are different in person than they are online. Not Scott Presler. He is as kind, soft-spoken and charismatic in person as he is when he posts about his mission to register voters as Republicans in Pennsylvania. This is true whether he is here at the Farm Show Complex or any of the ...

For high school students throughout the Juniata Valley, music is more than a song played on the radio or sung in the shower. It’s something that pour their hearts and souls into for years, practically dutifully for hours just like an athlete playing basketball or football. They hone their ...

A court in New Jersey has — correctly, in our view — dismissed a lawsuit state officials were attempting to bring against a number of the country’s larger oil companies. As the New Jersey Business and Industry Association notes, the ruling notes both state and federal precedent that the ...

Valentine’s Day. A day awash in red roses, heart-shaped boxes, and whispered sweet nothings. A day designated for love. But what is love, really? And why do we need a commercially-driven holiday to remind us of its importance? Love, in its purest form, is not a fleeting emotion. It’s not ...