Opinion
Published on January 23, 2026 - Page 15
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a speech Tuesday at the Davos Economic Conference. Here are excerpts:
Every day we are reminded that we...
Published on January 23, 2026 - Page 15
ROSE: Thanks to the Columbia County Redevelopment Authority's Blight Remediation Program, properties that have become eyesores are getting cleaned up...
Published on January 23, 2026 - Page 15
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If one word will define the 2026 congressional agenda, it is "affordability."
In fact, Roll Call just classified it as a defining...
Published on January 23, 2026 - Page 15
I am a 71-year Salem Township lifelong resident. Our once quiet, quaint town has a nuclear power plant with 50 years of spent fuel stored onsite,...
Published on January 22, 2026 - Page 15
Geraldo Lunas Campos died at a Texas detention center on Jan. 3, while pleading for air as guards choked him, according to a fellow detainee. The...
Published on January 22, 2026 - Page 15
Today, Sergio Chavez Jimenez is scheduled once again to have his day in federal immigration court.
If everything works, a Rube Goldberg machine of...
Published on January 22, 2026 - Page 15
County Officials:
As a resident of Montour County and after having worked and been involved in Columbia County for many years, I have followed the...
Published on January 22, 2026 - Page 15
I am greatly disturbed by the capture and removal of the Venezuelan President Maduro by President Donald Trump for several reasons.
The power to...
Published on January 22, 2026 - Page 15
This is the time of the year when school districts across the State generate a budget for the upcoming year. It should come as no surprise that most...
Published on January 21, 2026 - Page 8
In better times with better political leaders, the tragic shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis would have caused each side in the fight over...
Published on January 21, 2026 - Page 8
Two decades ago, municipalities were abuzz about the encroachment of a new type of structure into public life.
In Danville, a consultant suggested...
Published on January 21, 2026 - Page 8
At this point in Talen's rezoning efforts, not much has gone unsaid. Many perspectives have been spoken and written to the county commissioners, to...
Published on January 21, 2026 - Page 8
( EDITOR'S NOTE : The Columbia County Commissioners sent this letter to the Joint Operating Committee of the Columbia-Montour Vo-Tech on Jan. 6.)
As...
Published on January 21, 2026 - Page 8
What's an AI's favorite type of music? Algo-rhythm, of course.
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What's an AI's favorite snack? Microchips.
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Why did the computer visit the...
Published on January 20, 2026 - Page 12
( EDITOR’S NOTE: The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the United States of America’s Declaration of Independence from Britain. We’ll mark...
Published on January 20, 2026 - Page 12
We've long heard complaints too few students in high school these days take classes that equip them for the real world -- home economics, personal...
Published on January 20, 2026 - Page 12
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We're about to find out what it means for public health to have one of the nation's leading vaccine skeptics driving the country's...
Published on January 20, 2026 - Page 12
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Do you have more than a quarter-million dollars in your bank account?
If not, you're among the majority of Americans whose deposits...
Published on January 19, 2026 - Page 6
Many of the Afghan refugees who have entered the United States in recent years are heroic allies of this country. After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks,...
Published on January 19, 2026 - Page 6
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Put yourself in his position. You've just led a 6.5-million-man army across half a continent, ending four years of brutal war that'...
Published on January 18, 2026 - Page 21
The killing of a 37-year-old mother by a federal agent in Minneapolis is a shocking and inexcusable act of violence. And just as chilling, it's...
Published on January 18, 2026 - Page 21
ROSE: In this era of boundless entertainment and other diversions, interest in high school athletics has suffered. For teenage athletes who train...
Published on January 18, 2026 - Page 21
Six years ago this month, the Centers for Disease Control reported the first lab-confirmed case of the novel Coronavirus in the United States....
Published on January 18, 2026 - Page 21
Why couldn't the Ghostbusters ever finish Oregon Trail? Because they couldn't cross the streams.
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Why would someone want to have a DeLorean as a...
Published on January 17, 2026 - Page 16
Could it really be congressional Republicans have finally awakened from their MAGA-induced slumber and resumed their proper role in determining when...
Published on January 17, 2026 - Page 16
THORN: We are a local newspaper, which means our encounters with the federal government and its various appendages are thankfully rare.
But we've...
Published on January 17, 2026 - Page 16
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Since its founding in 1958, NASA has occupied a special place in the American imagination. With immense successes such as the...
Published on January 17, 2026 - Page 16
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The men you see in masks on your television savagely arresting people may not seem like your affair. But they are yours and mine,...
Published on January 16, 2026 - Page 16
We're pleased to report the American middle class is indeed "hollowing out"-- because ever more Americans are earning their way into higher income...
Published on January 16, 2026 - Page 16
ROSE: Catawissa Township officials -- in particular, Secretary Tracy Miller -- deserve applause for persistence in seeking funds to repave McIntyre...