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    Opinions 12 August 2024

    Saddling taxpayers with student loan cancellation is irresponsible 

    The higher education system warrants careful review as rising tuition costs and the amount of student loans disbursed for education saddle students and graduates with financial difficulties. But placing the burden of our nation’s outstanding student loan debt on taxpayers, including Americans who have worked hard to pay back their loans, is irresponsible and unaffordable.  
  • Opinions Rory Ryan 12 August 2024
    With all due respect to Earl Hindman, I don't think so, Tim
    Voters this November would be wise to remember two things: You can vote in socialism, but you cannot vote it out.
  • Opinions Christine Tailer 11 August 2024
    One of 500 tractors
    This is the 54th Ohio Valley Antique Machinery Show. This is that time of year when folks come from near and far and wide to proudly parade their vintage machinery and share their stories with those who come to listen, stroll across the grounds, and take it all in.
  • Opinions 11 August 2024
    The wider Middle East war that only Hamas wants
    American support for Israel, in the military arena as well as in the court of international public opinion, has been and will remain crucial.
  • Opinions 11 August 2024
    Overdose awareness campaigns save lives
    International Overdose Awareness Day, Aug. 31, is the most extensive annual campaign to end overdose. The campaign raises awareness of overdose, which has impacted every community. Too many families have lost loved ones, but this campaign and others like it can save lives. 
  • Opinions Dr. Andy Bowman 11 August 2024
    When 'I'm sorry' just doesn't cut it
    You stepped out there and thoroughly blew it, and you knew it. All you could do was apologize. Knowing you were wrong you went ahead…you said “I’m sorry.” 
  • Opinions Jim Thompson 10 August 2024
    The government stole the pleasure of generosity
    We tell children it is more blessed to give than to receive. Then, by the time we become adults we forget this wise saying. Why? 
  • Opinions 10 August 2024
    Border disaster hurts middle America
    Since 2021, the Biden-Harris administration’s open borders policy has encouraged more than 10 million people to try to cross the border illegally. Violent criminals, suspected terrorists, and deadly drugs like fentanyl have poured in.
  • Opinions 10 August 2024
    Watergate: To the contrary, the system didn’t work
    If the guiltiest person deserves the fairest trial, we were missing the critical context needed to judge Nixon – not just the 61% who supported him in 1972, only to abandon him six months into his second term of office, and those who worked for him who later questioned their decision to do so, but all Americans.
  • Opinions 9 August 2024
    Trump camp hits Walz over connection to Kerry
    Walz retired from the Minnesota National Guard in 2005, ending a 24-year career shortly before his unit, the National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery, deployed to Iraq. The unit in question deployed to Iraq for 22 months after Walz left it and suffered casualties.
  • Opinions 9 August 2024
    DEI litmus tests must end
    Ideological litmus tests have no place in higher education. They weaponize loyalty and contradict the university’s purpose of fostering academic inquiry and informed debates. Scholars cannot pursue truth or progress if they are denied academic jobs based on their devotion to a specific political ideology or philosophy.
  • Opinions 9 August 2024
    Kamala Harris is the border czar; she failed at her job
    Let me clear something up: Vice President Kamala Harris is the “Border Czar,” and while she is trying to deny that fact, pretend to care about border security, and distance herself from her failures now, her actions over the last four years have shown a complete disregard for the human suffering that occurs daily at our nation’s southern border.
  • Opinions 8 August 2024
    National Conservatism, Freedom Conservatism and Americanism
    The conflict today is not simply a normal policy argument between conservatives and progressives. It is over the future of the historic American nation, both its creed and its culture. Therefore, those who affirm the American nation – whether they are NatCons, FreeCons, or patriotic liberals – should be called Americanists.
  • Opinions 8 August 2024
    Carbon dioxide pipeline battle: Seize land for green energy?
    A battle is underway in five Midwest states over construction of carbon dioxide (CO2) pipelines as part of the green energy transition. Opposition to wide-area pipeline networks is rising from farms and communities. But utilities and state governments intend to seize land over landowner protests.
  • Opinions 8 August 2024
    Presidential protagonists, half a century apart
    What drove Joe Biden from the presidential race is an eerie parallel to what Richard Nixon faced exactly 50 years ago. Both men believed they could survive fatal wounds, yet instead of having the voters decide their fates, both were ultimately done in by their own parties.
  • Opinions 8 August 2024
    Shapiro’s bubble bursts
    The rest of the country learned what those of us in Penn’s Woods already knew: Shapiro’s image far outpaced his actual performance. His tightrope act on key issues resulted in drawing fire from both sides of the ideological divide.
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