There’s been a lot of disagreement over some downtown redevelopment efforts. People on both sides of some development projects have a vision of what downtown can be and, despite disagreements, are making the case for projects that make downtown Warren a destination. There are other ways ...

Young people’s return to their classrooms each fall usually is a routine, uneventful exercise, even for young men and women transitioning from high school to a college environment. They’ve gone through the proverbial ritual of clothes-buying over the latter part of the summer, as well as ...

In July we offered our opinion that the Warren County School District shouldn’t remove cell phones from classrooms unless teachers said they were a distraction. Evidently, the phones are a bigger distraction than some district administrators wanted to admit over the summer. Back in July ...

We always knew $400 million in federal funding wasn’t going to be enough to cap all of the orphaned wells in Pennsylvania. But what’s going on right now is, frankly, ridiculous. A process that the state and private companies have used for years averages about $6,350 to $17,000 per ...

Here in Warren County, we’re having contentious, difficult discussions nearly every year about how to live within our education budget. Those talks aren’t easy, but they are necessary. That’s why it’s disappointing to hear Gov. Josh Shapiro take the easy way out when asked about ...

Local taxpayers probably don’t want to hear this - but the time to pay the EMS piper may be coming. Council of Governments members recently continued their discussions of the county EMS crisis with the creation of a local EMS authority, a possible solution being tried in neighboring Forest ...