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Opinion

Our opinion: Budget gap could be much worse

Our Opinion

We’re sure there were many Warren County residents who read last week about the school districts’ $2.9 million budget gap between projected revenues and expenses in the 2026-27 budget proposal and wondered how that was possible after closing two high schools in 2025. The answer is the ...

Editor’s corner: Affordability keeps getting more expensive

Our Opinion

Almost every level of bureaucracy is guilty of overusing the word affordability. As prices keep rising — whether due to inflation, at the grocery store or painfully within the last two weeks at the gas pump — that phrase gets repeated more than nightly “Law & Order” reruns. Let’s ...

Words sometimes do speak louder than actions

Local Commentaries

It seems that there are many so-called leaders in this country who want the democracy we have upheld for nearly 250 years dismantled; The Socialist-Dems are pushing to defund I.C.E., and again the American citizen is held hostage. They have no leaders, only ringleaders who call the shots ...

Opposition to Iran war forgets history

Local Commentaries

Lately I have been hearing a lot about the high gas prices and the majority of the complaining is coming from the left side of the aisle. With that said, everyone should have been complaining all along ever since the President Barack Obama era when it really started to rise and no thanks to the ...

SAVE Act takes aim at making it tougher to vote

Local Commentaries

You may have heard about a new voter registration act called the SAVE (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility) America Act. What is it, what would it change, and what evidence do we have that change is needed? In Pennsylvania, there are currently three requirements to register to vote. You ...

Most of the occupied regions in our world are stolen land

Local Commentaries

At the 2026 Grammy Awards, the very dour Billie Eilish shamed Americans for living on stolen land. What a wonderful way to signal her humanitarian virtue. Then reality struck: Somebody noted that Eilish’s multi-million dollar mansion sits on the same stolen land as the mansions of all ...