Michael Conahan should be familiar with what goes into difficult decisions about crime and punishment and their effect on a person’s life. Conahan was a Temple-trained lawyer, who spent 13 years as a Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas judge. For four years, he was the county’s ...
If they have any instinct for self-preservation, Iran and Hamas should be monitoring President-Elect Donald Trump’s communications closely these days. A couple of weeks ago, there was the Truth Social post promising “ALL HELL TO PAY” if Hamas didn’t release its hostages by Trump’s ...
As school buses complete their final rounds before Christmas break, the Juniata Valley prepares for an annual shift. Starting today, our streets and neighborhoods will buzz with children trading classrooms for play and homework for hot chocolate. This temporary transformation offers our ...
Christmas, as I contemplated writing about this topic, I wondered: what is there to say that has not already been said? I, along with countless others, have written on this subject many times. I had to pause to reflect on what fresh words I could offer about this much-anticipated holiday ...
Taxpayers, government can find tax solution To the Editor: According to a recent report, poor and working-class taxpayers pay a larger percentage of their incomes for taxes than wealthier taxpayers. Hence, they are not being taxed according to their ability to pay; and this is wrong. What ...
During the course of an FBI written response to a Freedom of Information Act request asking about the trade names and suppliers of surveillance software the FBI had purchased, the government has yet again quietly acknowledged its antipathy to constitutional provisions that all of its employees ...