Opinion

Other Voices: Threat to our way of life
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 14, 2026
Picture this: All of the land and water from the end of Smethport Country Club, along Route 59 and Route 6, to the Nittany Mart, up the hill by the sc...
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Other Voices: Now, about other RR crossings…
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 14, 2026
I don't know who may have been responsible for moving Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad to repair the crossing on Bolivar Drive, but, thank you! Now maybe...
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Higher ed needs a refresher on free speech
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 14, 2026
At Republicans’ recent midterm convention, Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, began his remarks with his own version of a land acknowledgment. “I’d like to a...
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The case against cutting Social Security benefits
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By KATHRYN ANNE EDWARDS Bloomberg Opinion 
Sep 13, 2026
NEW YORK (TNS) — Are Social Security benefits too generous? Some fiscal hawks and classic conservatives say the answer is yes, and see the upcoming de...
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Healthcare costs have small businesses in an impossible bind
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By LISA JARVIS Bloomberg Opinion 
Sep 13, 2026
NEW YORK (TNS) — The healthcare affordability crisis is crushing everyone, but it has become downright calamitous for small businesses. Survey after s...
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Other Voices: Go beyond scare words
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 13, 2026
A response to Steve Disney’s opinion: “We need to oppose the socialist and communist trends gaining traction in the Democratic Party.” Begin by provid...
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A bus pass for a 5-year-old charter school student?
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By OLIVER BATEMAN RealClearPennsylvania 
Sep 11, 2026
On Jan. 21, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that a district that puts its own kindergartners on a yellow bus may hand a charter school kindergart...
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For me, 9/11 is a core memory. For my kids, it’s history
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
Sep 11, 2026
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Whatever the demographers say, I believe the line between millennials and Gen Z is whether or not you have a working memory of Sept...
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How schools are remembering — or forgetting — Sept. 11
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By JONATHAN BUTCHER  
Sep 10, 2026
WASHINGTON (TNS) — This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, yet lawmakers in just half of states require teaching about the terro...
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Time is long past for Hegseth to go
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By CARL P. LEUBSDORF The Dallas Morning News 
Sep 10, 2026
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Pete Hegseth would have loved commanding a military force during the Crusades, leading an all-white, all-male army imbued with Chri...
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Other Voices: Forgetting to ‘never forget’
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 09, 2026
On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists linked to the Islamic extremist group al Qaeda, founded by Osama bin Laden, hijacked four commercial passenger airplanes...
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Post-9/11 lessons: We overlooked festering geostrategic issues
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By EDMUND FITTON-BROWN InsideSources.com 
Sep 09, 2026
LONDON (TNS) — As we approach the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11, it is important to reflect on the historic significance of that atrocity and on the le...
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Hegseth has turned the Army into a rudderless ship
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By JAMES STAVRIDIS Bloomberg Opinion 
Sep 09, 2026
BOSTON (TNS) — The sudden departure of Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll, following months of tension with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, is a se...
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Don’t be seduced by the language of AI
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By PARMY OLSON Bloomberg Opinion 
Sep 08, 2026
NEW YORK (TNS) — The attacks on Hugging Face ran from May to late July, yet the details of what actually happened when OpenAI’s artificial-intelligenc...
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Uniform doesn’t come with First Amendment waiver
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By JAY ROGERS RealClearDefense  
Sep 08, 2026
A U.S. Air Force major stands on the Capitol steps in his service uniform, ribbons and all, calling for the president and vice president to be impeach...
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Other Voices: Memoir misinterpreted
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 06, 2026
I cringed when I read about my deceased husband, Dr. Widad Bazzoui’s memoir, "The Man From Baghdad," in a letter to the editor in the Sept. 3 edition ...
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Waste of the Day: $79 million to not work
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 06, 2026
Contractors working for the state of Illinois took a 470,000-hour paid lunch break on taxpayers’ dime. A company hired during the Covid-19 pandemic to...
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Dem leader lashes out at moderates
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 06, 2026
To determine a political party’s priorities, see what makes it upset. The rise of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is one of the biggest ong...
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Joyful spending is America’s guilty pleasure
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By ALLISON SCHRAGER Bloomberg Opinion 
Sep 06, 2026
NEW YORK (TNS) — Americans like to spend money, and they’re good at it. But they also feel kind of bad about it. According to a survey from Ally Bank,...
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