Late last week, the Department of Labor and Industry owned up to a decades-long error it made and has yet to rectify five years after it was discovered. It might be laughable if it wasn’t so irresponsible and disrespectful to Pennsylvania’s taxpayers and workers. In case you missed it, ...

Call me naive, but I’ve never quite gotten why some politicians want to limit voters’ ability to cast their ballots. Sure, I know that plenty of people like to flip the classic Clausewitz quote and say that politics is war by other means. All’s fair, etc., they insist. But the ...

I got to thinking that it has been a long time since we had a campfire. They were a regular occasion when the grandchildren were young. I guess that was our entertainment in those days. Sometimes we camped out. Sometimes we just had a campfire. They were a lot of fun and the young ones ...

This spring, a baby bunny hopped across our driveway as I drove in and I thought, aww, isn’t he adorable? Fuggedaboudit. Julyis now winding downand that furry beast with the sharp teeth and the fullbelly is no longer cute. He is much bigger now, all because he has been partaking of my ...

Do you remember when stores employed elevator operators? I remember the operators greeting us and asking about the floor we wanted to exit on. There were no stores that I remember in my hometown, but there were stores in Jamestown and Buffalo. I think there was at least one in Warren. To ...

A month ago, we garden growers were griping about how dry it was. Be careful what you wish for. Shakespeare described these past few weeks best: “For the rain it raineth every day.” I have it on pretty good authority that Will never made it to western Pennsylvania or New York. But let’s ...