The most important business before President Biden and Congress is raising the debt ceiling. It was raised 3 times during the Trump administration with bipartisan support. The Republicans need to act responsibly – not push their own agenda instead of taking care of the nation’s ...

Each week, I look forward to reading the student editorial in Sunday’s edition. The student, teacher, or newspaper official (or perhaps all three) who came up with this idea should be commended. Not every one of these has been great, but each one has offered insights from a youthful point of ...

Headlines around the country have recently seemed to have an increase in a particular kind of violence: against strangers. I’m not referring to mass shootings or shootings with innocent bystander victims, though both deserve our attention as well. But instead, cases like Ralph Yarl in ...

Just read the article by the local Climate Change activists in their “corner.” They put out an incredible amount of statistics in their column. Does a national organization feed the stats to them to include in their local diatribes? Of course, we know you can find “statistics” to prove ...

Saturday, May 13 marks the 31st anniversary of one of America’s great days of giving — The National Association of Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive. Letter carriers walk through the community every day, often coming face to face with a sad reality for too many, hunger. So each ...

I expect most of you have heard by now that our Wood County Commission has under consideration the sale of the County’s Public Service Districts. This is something that in my opinion should never happen, and that seems to be the opinion of so many others that I have spoken with. Our ...