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First, let it be said that football is much safer than it once was.For an example, we need look no further than 1905. That year yielded what one writer has described as ëƵfootballëƵs death harvest.ëƵ In the course of 1905, itëƵs believed that more than 20 college football players sustained ...

Cheers and Jeers

<strong>CHEERS:</strong> Political junkies were transfixed this week by the spectacle of Kevin McCarthy being denied the speakersëƵ chair in the U.S. House of Representatives by hardliners in the Republican caucus. It was the first time in 100 years that the ...

Freeze state gas tax, or dedicate it

Pennsylvania lawmakers have a remarkable talent for evading accountability.They wonëƵt increase the state governmentëƵs percentage of school funding because that would require increases in state taxes. Instead, they leave it to local school boards to raise property taxes and absorb the ...

WasnëƵt it just yesterday that we were all nervous about Y2K?You remember that ëƵ some folks were hoarding food and water in the midst of overheated predictions that the transition from Dec. 31, 1999, to Jan. 1, 2000, would lead to computer meltdowns, planes falling from the sky and all ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> One month ago, Pam Snyder became a former state representative following almost a decade in Harrisburg, and, before that, almost a decade as a county commissioner in Greene County. YouëƵd be hard-pressed to find anyone in the region who is ...

<em>An editorial from the Wilkes-Barre CitizensëƵ Voice:</em>The impending session of the state House of Representatives looks like a hockey game in which a fight breaks out before the first puck is dropped.Democrats clocked Republicans in the Nov. 8 midterm ...