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Opinion

Why preventing high weeds, grass matters

Other Commentaries

I detest mowing my lawn. Of all the routine tasks associated with being an adult mowing lawn is certainly my least favorite. I will certainly push it near the boundaries of good taste and then succumb to community peer pressure when I hear my neighbors mowing theirs. It is certainly easy enough ...

What other newspapers are saying: Fewer births are startling trend

Editorials

Seventy-five years ago, New York held nearly 50 seats in the House of Representatives — 45 to be exact. It has 26 today. It’s not news that rural New York has been losing population, with its rural communities being hit particularly hard. That’s a story throughout the Rust Belt. The ...

Wild turkey

Letters

The perverted priorities of the PA Game Commission (PGC) are, once again, illustrated by their stocking a quarter million non-indigenous pheasants that do not survive from one year to the next, yet they have done absolutely nothing to restore the disappearing eastern wild turkey which is an ...

Poor farm policy

Letters

Farmers know how drought, floods and late spring freezes devastate crops. Their hard work is increasingly challenged by climate change. Now there’s erratic policy direction from President Trump. To help farmers make infrastructure investments to mitigate climate challenges, the Biden ...

Lawmakers should address energy policy — not judges

Editorials

A court in New Jersey has — correctly, in our view — dismissed a lawsuit state officials were attempting to bring against a number of the country’s larger oil companies. As the New Jersey Business and Industry Association notes, the ruling notes both state and federal precedent that the ...

Genuine leadership

Letters

Praise the Lord! After four miserable years with a mumbling, bumbling, and stumbling dictator, we are no longer a banana republic! Now under our superb leadership, we are once again a constitutional federal republic. Our democracy’s power is derived from our citizens. President Trump got a ...