Gov. Josh Shapiro recently defended his fiscal record. During Pennsylvania’s one and only gubernatorial debate, the governor insisted that (1) he balanced the state budget, (2) Pennsylvania has an $8 billion surplus, (3) he has cut taxes, and (4) Pennsylvania is the only “growing economy ...
It appears that the Democrat party has become divided in their thoughts and actions from what they were even a generation ago. When some in the party use Socialist in the title, one realizes their thinking has significantly changed their beliefs; the values this country has espoused for centuries are now falling by the wayside. Cal Thomas’s article in the Times Observer on July 1, read: “As the saying goes ‘This is not your grandparents Democrat Party.’ It has clearly gone off the rails.” The article lists several examples of radicalism that are surging through the country, ...
In this upcoming election, Warren County, the primary home of the State House’s 65th District, voters actually have a choice. Maybe it’s time they take that choice seriously and try something other than unfettered Republican domination and essentially a local one-party state. After all, on Republican’s watch, Warren County has been gifted a continually hemorrhaging population, and a rapidly declining business and services base. At the beginning of Kathy Rapp’s 22 long, predominantly unproductive, years in the State House we’ve seen a reduction of population from 44,400 to ...
I’ve been a Milky Way girl since I was five.With Halloween just around the corner, I have a mini-excuse for having my forbidden goodies in the house. The other 51 weeks a year, I can’t risk even bringing them onto the property – the temptation is too strong, In my hometown, a little ...
Thank you, Warren Times Observer, for your prescient editorial regarding Warren Worx and a previous editorial expressing concern about branding. A city of Warren sanctioned consulting report made clear Warren was not ready for branding. I thought about informing our mayor, but after the WCCBI got their hands deep into the mayor’s back pocket for $100,000, I waited to see how far it would all go. Then the county wrote a check followed by another from the city. All totaled, more than $300,000. WCCBI – “one of our biggest hauls.” In the end, a very lame branding was born, one so ...
Recently, the Department of Environmental Protection told the PA House Environmental Committee all contaminated water -- brine -- from conventional oil, gas and mineral brine wells contains the same pollutants-- hydrocarbons, salts, heavy metals and other chemicals. These pollutants, DEP said, are potentially harmful to the environment and can threaten drinking water. DEP said studies have shown spreading this contaminated water on roads to reduce dust-- its primary use-- is no more effective than plain water, but with environmental risks. It also chemically destabilizes dirt and ...
