We won’t pretend to be experts on the U.S. Forest Service or forest management. Only time will tell if President Donald Trump’s move to reorganize the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) agencies that include the U.S. Forest Service, reduce bureaucracy, and place more employees outside ...
Gov. Josh Shapiro’s Healthy Moms, Vibrant Futures’ Maternal Health Strategic Action Plan sounds like a real step forward in helping expectant mothers in rural areas. Perhaps it’s unfair to expect a problem that has metastasized over the past two decades to be fixed quickly, but in our ...
Restore Liberty Street or lose Dear Editor, I care about public spaces because they remind us that we belong to each other. Here in Warren, we have the bones of something real — something that can bring people together. Liberty Street isn’t just a road. It’s a corridor full of ...
Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of ...
Recently, there was an article published by the Times Observer, “RDA Approves Loan for City Business.” On Facebook, this resulted in a spirited flood of comments, mostly from people recognizing that a 3% loan for a high-failure restaurant over 15 years is a negative investment from the ...
Funding the government is the most basic constitutional function of Congress. When lawmakers repeatedly fail at this fundamental task, it shows just how dysfunctional our legislative system has become. In the last six months, America has endured three government shutdowns. The latest — a ...