Opinion
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Battista: Who to Believe?
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Halloween 2025 has come and gone but it reminded me of one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on a naïve audience. On Oct. 30, 1938, just over 87 years […]
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We Had to Destroy the Universities to Save Them
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“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” – Ronald Reagan Skim most any document wordsmithed by President Trump’s […]
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Letters: Candidates and Casino; Kepler Barn Legacy; Retain Judges and Justices; 20-Second Hug Club
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The upcoming elections for College Township Council will determine who will oversee College Township’s efforts to mitigate any harms caused by the soon-to-open Happy Valley Casino. Three candidates are running […]
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An Important Voice of the Past Rises to Guide Us Once More
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Eighty years ago this week (Oct. 25, 1945) Angelo Paterno rose to speak to an audience in New York City. World War II had concluded just weeks earlier. The awful […]
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Penn State: What Have We Become and What Will We Be?
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“I don’t want Penn State to become the kind of a place where an 8-2 season is a tragedy. You can’t tell kids that a football loss is a tragedy. […]
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A Black Panther, a Softball Injury, Artificial Intelligence and Me
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Was it only last year that we profs were policing artificial intelligence as a newfangled form of plagiarism and buying blue books like it was 1975? Now we’re Tokyo train […]
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Hook: Reading the Signs
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So… that was a great weekend to get out of town, huh? Granted, we had plans for over a year to attend a wedding on Oct. 11 in western Maine, […]
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Op-Ed: Recognize, Respect and Respond to Climate Change
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It is dangerous not to respect your opponent. Never underestimate their capabilities. Last week, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told our top officers, “No more climate change worship.” Following on President Trump’s […]
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Letters: Judicial Retention Disinformation; Be Informed About Casino; 2nd Home Scourge; Yes on Retention; Weigh In on Sign Ordinance
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Some Pennsylvania voters recently received judicial retention political mailers for the Nov. 4 election falsely accusing Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices of politically “gerrymandering the map for Democrats.” We’d like to set […]
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Opinion: Elect Experienced Jurists Neuman and Tsai to the Bench This November
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Every November, we hire elected officials to do the people’s work on a day-to-day basis. We send folks to the halls of every level of government, including the benches in courts […]