Over the weekend, we learned of our first confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Mifflin, Snyder and Huntingdon counties. This was on top of there already being one confirmed case among Juniata County residents and another two that were confirmed Monday. Having verifiable, undeniable proof that ...
To the editor: I have never experienced anger to the heights I do now. For starters: A looter is a person who gainfully obtains spoils from a catastrophe. Mr. Chuck Schumer and Ms. Nancy Pelosi, the two most despicable individuals existing under the protection of our Constitution, are ...
A significant number of colleges and universities in the United States were coping with financial challenges, some severe, before COVID-19 reared its ugly head. Now, with many forced to suspend operations and send students home, these institutions of higher learning may be in existential ...
To the editor: For the past six weeks, you have been reading columns written by some of my students (Editor’s note: You can find the final installment in the series on Page D1 of today’s edition). I asked them to write about what they know, and what they delivered was a series of ...
Millions of dollars in stock transactions on behalf of five U.S. senators have raised serious questions about their ethics — and whether they broke laws against insider trading. Clearly, the matter needs to be investigated, but not as a witch hunt with the preconceived notion that someone ...
To the editor: We are in the hardest time this nation has faced. We now face an enemy we had never expected, a war that no one could discern. The coronavirus is affecting all of us in ways never expected. Everything that was exalted before is now broken down. Sporting events without ...
Most of the news about government’s response to COVID-19 has been released at the state and federal levels. But as the epidemic spreads, local governments will become more and more critical. Some municipal and county officials in our area already have begun planning for that time. Those ...
Our lives have all taken a dramatic turn in the last few weeks. Our community, which was built on the backs of hard-working, blue-collar workers, has faced many challenges throughout its history, but nothing like the one we are facing today. It has been encouraging, however, to see so many of ...
At President Donald Trump’s urging, the United States is adding a sixth branch — the “Space Force” — to our armed forces, in order to defend the vast region beyond our atmosphere. Perhaps we should be thinking of inner space, instead. Throughout the nation, public health officials ...
News about stock market losses due to panic over COVID-19 — as well as an oil price battle involving some foreign nations — certainly has been of concern. But our economy’s engine is not on Wall Street. It is an extraordinarily complex mechanism relying on Americans making or providing, ...