Pat on the back, ‘activist’ or not
DURING A teenager’s funeral last month, the Rev. Michael Brewster challenged mourners to consider Wilkes-Barre’s safety and what each of …
Don’t blow stack over stopped traffic
W HILE PINNED IN another of the Wyoming Valley’s contorted, construction-related traffic patterns and reflecting on the predicament, we …
Controller gets blamed in overbilling fiasco
Nice job, Times Leader, for the investigating that reporter Terrie Morgan-Besecker did to uncover the $60,000 overbilling in Luzerne County.
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Elections reveal Europe unwilling to sacrifice WORLD OPINION
THE RECENT elections in France and Greece suggest that an insidious myth is starting to take hold across Europe.
It was best articulated by …
Ah, spring and its rueful, roadside reminder of the cycle of life here Commentary Dr. Henry F. Smith Jr.
EVERY SPRING around Earth Day, my family and I join a group of neighbors on a Saturday morning to perform “roadside cleanup” along a …
With Victory Sports league, everyone wins – literally COMMENTARY Bill O’Boyle
FORTY FORT – Brandon Harvey caught the ball.
Maybe that doesn’t sound like a major news event, but it was an accomplishment of major league …
U.S. obesity: Eating our way to harm Commentary KATHLEEN PARKER
CLOSE YOUR eyes and picture 110 million obese people waddling around America’s sidewalks. You’ll probably want to keep your eyes closed.
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After paying ‘debt to society,’ then what? Commentary Leonard Pitts Jr.
I PROMISED Russell I would ask you something.
We met last week in a medium-security correctional facility. There, I spent a couple hours talking …
Unexpected coalition echoes Israel of ’67 Commentary CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
IN MAY 1967, in brazen violation of previous truce agreements, Egypt ordered United Nations peacekeepers out of the Sinai, marched 120,000 troops to …
Secret to success in education is basic: Working together, adapting Commentary Karin Chenoweth
IT DOESN’T take much effort to become disheartened about American education. Dismal statistics point to the fact that our children simply …
Boomerang-effect hype underrates graduates, families Commentary Barbara Shelly
WE PARENTS of college students had better get the basements fixed up. According to none other than Karl Rove and his political action group, chances …
