I had a lifelong friend who had polio. Our mothers met in the maternity ward when our older brothers were born. Jimmy had a wheelchair, which I thought was neat. One time he was so fragile that when nurses turned him over, they broke both his legs. One Halloween, he could stand on his own, ...
When Washington County’s commissioners announced in June that they were allocating $5.9 million from the county’s blight mitigation fund for the demolition of the Washington Mall, the first reaction of many was disbelief. Why would such a large amount of public funds be used to benefit a ...
Misinformation is circulating that Washington County is spending $6 million in county tax money to subsidize a private developer at the former Washington Mall site. That claim is categorically false. The county is using federal grant money – funds that cannot be spent on anything else and ...
There is something clarifying about opening a fresh calendar. The pages are clean, the boxes empty, the year ahead undefined. It invites planning even as experience reminds us that no year ever unfolds exactly as written. This will be another year when Pennsylvania finds itself under a ...
Last October, Washington County Treasurer Tom Flickinger wrote in the Observer-Reporter that a conservative is “someone who holds a political outlook rooted in tradition, stability, and individual freedom.” He aptly described the economic and social values shared – at least until recently ...
I often wonder how many people will look back years from now and realize they handed over some of their creative power or self-expression to artificial intelligence, sometimes losing not just the ability to act on their own ideas, but the spark that once made those ideas matter. Writers and ...
