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Effective drinking age law key to safer student body
AS COLLEGES FROM downtown Wilkes-Barre to Walla Walla, Wash., begin welcoming students to campus for the fall semester, a battle is brewing over alcohol and the nation’s legal drinking age.
In this case, however, the people provoking the debate about whether to lower the drinking age from 21 to 18 are an unlikely bunch – university presidents and chancellors. About 100 of them signed on to a movement called the Amethyst Initiative, which calls for lawmakers to take a renewed look at U.S. policy on alcohol consumption.
Letters to the Editor
- Answer to property assessment woes could be simple
- Increased oil drilling proposals risky, wouldn’t solve problem
- Passage of energy conservation package will benefit consumers
- Anyone who expects presidential contende
- Writer encourages receiving Communion on the tongue
- Housing bill bails out people who made poor choices
- Legislation to regulate kennels needs to be passed promptly
- Assessment appeals do not have to be an
With likely sale, prognosis at W-B General looks good
THE EXPECTED SALE of Wilkes-Barre General Hospital to a for-profit company could have far-reaching ramifications, many of them healthy for this community.
Corporations in business of circumventing tax laws
IN 2005, CORPORATE America turned a $1.6 trillion profit. Even by Sinatra standards, it was a very good year. Why, then, did 25 percent of large American corporations pay no income tax – zero – that year?
Charting a course for Georgia
WITH ONLY SOME 75,000 residents, South Ossetia is sure to continue playing a crucial role in world politics for a long time.
- Glitz and glamour replace true meaning of Olympics WORLD OPINION
- Waterfront park is gift to be valued, cultivated
- Choice surplus
- We’ve got choices galore
- Edwards can’t rise to depths of Kennedys Commentary ANN COULTER
- Edwards affair: History repeats itself Commentary Leonard Pitts
- Obama’s energy plan: Nothing new under the sun COMMENTARY E. Thomas McClanahan
- Meet your neighbor, an American Muslim Commentary Bob Ray Sanders
- DIAMONDS AND COAL
- Skrep’s ‘action plan’ won’t solve county’s tax trouble
- Lawmakers must act now to prevent kennel cruelty
- A hospital status report would ease worried minds
- Georgia crisis a preview of foreign policy stances
- Isaac Hayes’ artistic touch went well beyond music
Richard Connor
Reassessment anger could swamp boat - Richard L. Connor opinion
WHEN I MOVED back here two years ago, I was struck by a number of things that had changed and also by a few that had not.
Kevin Blaum
Back to school and home to an empty nest Kevin blaum In the arena
BACK-TO-SCHOOL advertisements announcing bargains on supplies and clothing are beginning to pop up almost everywhere. However, most parents have a few more days before buying books ...
Renita Fennick
These bucks ought to be stopped here RENITA FENNICK OPINION
There were two major stories out of Harrisburg this week -- both related to Luzerne County.
Mark Guydish
Speaking up for ignored gem Boscov’s MARK GUYDISH OPINION
We bought our gas grill at Boscov’s. The grill has produced hours of friendship and fun along with tons of tasty food.
Ed Lewis
DA office’s loss a big gain for war on drugs EDWARD LEWIS OPINION
Tim Doherty had that twinkle in his eye when he answered a simple question.
Ron Bartizek
Subsidizing supply hard to understand Ron Bartizek Business Local
Like a shy, wealthy schoolboy seeking to make friends by picking up every lunch check, Gov. Ed Rendell came to Northeastern Pennsylvania last week bearing gifts – millions in state ...
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