Opinion
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A New Era With New Questions: What Will Be?
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Blue-White Weekend is a step to understanding what we will be at Penn State. No one can say exactly what this fall will bring, but there are a couple of certainties about what we will be.
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Opinion: There’s Plenty That’s Not ‘Happy’ About Our Valley’s New Casino
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So here we are. The new gambling casino at the Nittany Mall will hold its test days on April 24 and 25. If things go according to plan, the facility’s official opening will follow shortly thereafter—much to the delight of some and the dismay of others. There’s one thing I’m certain about: the inappropriateness of…
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Letters: ‘Informed Awareness’ About Gambling; Casino’s Compelled Test Day Donations; GT vs. Planned Parenthood
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As State College prepares for the opening of the Happy Valley Casino, it’s worth understanding a simple but powerful truth about modern slot machines: they are not designed primarily to create winners. They are designed to keep people playing. Much of this comes down to how the human brain works. We tend to think gambling…
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Hook: The Car Line Kings
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Back in early 1999 my wife and I moved from Orlando, Fla., to Bucks County, Pa., in part so that our then 4-year-old daughter could attend school in what we, and many others, considered to be a good school district. We had gone so far in selling this pretense to our daughter – “You’re going…
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Paterno: Dangerous Times for the First Right of the First Amendment
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It’s been said that in polite society it is unwise to talk politics or religion… We’re about to test that theory. In the forests of “Penn’s Woods” springs enter streams and creeks headed to rivers that empty into oceans, bays and a Great Lake. The grand design of our planet is amazing when you see…
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Frank: The Luftmensch’s Guide to Educational Reform
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My academic home at Penn State is the College of Communications, but at heart, I’m a humanities guy. My bachelor’s degree was in Creative Writing, the English department’s home for would-be poets and novelists. My graduate degrees are in folklore studies. As anyone can plainly see, I was (and still am) a luftmensch, a Yiddish…
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Hook: Delivering the Goods
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“Things always work great. Right up until they don’t.” An acquaintance of mine is fond of saying that whenever there was a plan for something, but that plan, despite lots of planning, doesn’t go as planned. (A little semantic satiation for you Ted Lasso fans!) That saying is a cautionary tale that you should always…
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Column: Taxpayers Are Paying a ‘Legacy Tax’ for Public Notices
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With a vote on House Bill 1291 potentially days away, Pennsylvania digital publishers are urging lawmakers to reject legislation that protects a print media monopoly at taxpayers’ expense.
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Letters: Penn State Women’s Hockey Made Us Proud; Who Does Thompson Serve?; ‘Reshaping the Media’
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The narrative that Penn State women’s hockey lost in a “heartbreaker” in the Frozen Four semifinals misses the point and does our women athletes a disservice. Penn State women’s hockey didn’t lose. They went the distance. In their first-ever Frozen Four appearance, they fought the returning champions to a draw and took them into overtime. They proved…
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Editorial: Bill Could Let Newspaper Lobby Collect Millions in Hidden Public Notice Fees
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Beyond inflating prices, HB 1291 threatens a perpetual newspaper lobby ‘tax’ on public notices.