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Local Commentaries

It’s time for ‘National Popular Vote’ system

We hear the words, “I don’t vote because it won’t count.” Every United States citizen has the right to vote to preserve our democracy, and has a right to feel that their vote counts. How your vote for president counts is decided by the way the state legislature translates actual vote ...

What are your Goliaths

First, of all, I hope that you are familiar with the account of David and Goliath from the Bible. Our guest preacher used it as his scriptural reference Sunday. In case it is unfamiliar I will give some of my history with it as well as something from the Bible. I missed the book of the Bible ...

Rounding Third: Spring brought an unwelcome surprise

In fact, Spring started a little early for us, and brought an untimely gift. Whoop-de-doo. We have ants. And we have been struggling. Occasionally in April or May, we have had a small platoon of the little black critters. Nothing we couldn’t deal with easily. We’d buy an 8-pack of ant ...

View from Hickory Heights: A great way to spend your money!

“A little reminder that in a few years you won’t remember how much that trip cost, but you will remember the moments you experienced.” Learning and Exploring Through Play Now, years later I realize what a wise move I made taking the grandchildren to New York City. First, I took the ...

Left again fails to find balance

In the 1990s President Bill Clinton laid off and or fired over 377,000 federal employees in an attempt to balance the budget (which he did) and to reduce government. He had bipartisan support and was not referred to as a dictator, a wanna be king, a racist and so on. The Republicans didn’t ...

Budget season offers hope for a new energy future

We know Pennsylvania’s budget season doesn’t quite get the same buzz as other seasons of the year. But this year, there’s reason to get excited about the state budget. Pennsylvanians have a real opportunity to see dramatic new investments in our commonwealth’s energy economy. Gov. ...