Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Tip O’Neill famously declared that “all politics is local.” You can take such a statement in a variety of ways, but there are some profound truths hidden in there.
Since the beginning of this year, the Washington County Court of Common Pleas has been like a 747 flying on only three engines. Fully staffed at six judges, it is operating now with four because of the departures of judges Janet Moschetta Bell and Paul Pozonsky.
The front page of Wednesday’s newspaper was as serious as any day’s, but it still offered us two opportunities to chuckle.
The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation of the Internal Revenue Service after the agency apologized this week for what it called “inappropriate” targeting of conservative political groups seeking tax-exempt status. It may be difficult for the government to prove...
Facts are facts. That seems fairly simple, unless the subject at hand is taxation of Marcellus Shale drilling. Then politics and self-interest enter in.
Google’s immensely hyped Internet-connected glasses promise new vistas for both convenience and annoyance.
In the 1960s, some futurists gazed into their crystal balls and pronounced that we would be chauffered by highly intelligent apes by 2020.
Somewhere around 2000, the horizon appeared just about unlimited for Borders Books and Music.
I read the Dave Molter column, “Global warming and other dirty lies,” in Wednesday’s edition of the Observer-Reporter. I find it interesting that Molter can post no scientific proof proving his point. I also find it interesting that he uses the common misconception offered by...
Washington City Hall has slapped the business district in the face once again.
Many residents of Trinity Area School District were victimized by a political drive-by when they visited their mailboxes earlier this week.
Donora has no banks, no grocery stores, no gas stations and the powers that be talk about progress.
Joe Main, the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health, can brag about having only 19 mining deaths in the United States last year, but he neglects to mention that in only the first three months of 2013 there were eight mining deaths in America. When sequestration cut just under half...
The presence of unarmed security guards at the May 6 Nottingham Township supervisors meeting would be laughable, except for the fact it is an example of classic textbook corporate bullying. Ramaco, a Kentucky company, wants to open a coal mine in the heart of rural Nottingham Township. The...
I don’t understand why restaurant and bar owners spend good money for high-definition, flat-screen television sets and then don’t use the closed captioning option so we can know what is being said over the happy noise of the place.
This is in response to the article, “Cecil Township supervisors want private meeting with Range Resources,” which appeared in the Wednesday edition of the Observer-Reporter.
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