Opinion-Editorial Columns

It took my wife and me three days to empty the cardboard boxes in our new apartment. I took care of the kitchen, unpacking mixing bowls and wooden spoons, placing them on unfamiliar shelves.

Government often commits its most unconscionable acts when no one is looking.

A while ago I found myself, for the second time, walking in the annual State College Halloween parade. The first time was exactly 60 years earlier. My parents lived in faculty housing beside the Ware-hams. I was a witch in the cold rain. I cried all the way across town and remember the misery as I finally proceeded slowly down the ramp into Memorial Field. My makeup ran down my

With Thanksgiving fast approaching, it’s seems appropriate to take this opportunity to give thanks for the countless people who share in the support and success of our Centre County United Way. Our community is blessed with an abundance of thoughtful, generous,

Earlier this week, the inspector-general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, aka, the bank bailout fund, released his report on the 2008 rescue of the American International Group, the insurer. The gist of the report is that government officials made no serious attempt to extract concessions from bankers, even though these bankers received huge benefits from the rescue.

What will the United States be like in 20 years when today’s toddlers are in college or trying to land that first job or maybe thinking about starting a family?

Perhaps you’ve long believed that extremist Islamic terrorism poses the greatest danger to America. Well, the Republicans wish to disabuse you of that notion.

The Obama administration has chosen the wrong New York venue to try five co-conspirators in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.

When Lt. Roy E. Westover Jr., of the Westover Area Fire Department, rose on the morning of Oct. 23, I am sure his mind was on many things. The mind of a volunteer and community leader usually is.

WASHINGTON — Of course, the subtitle of Sarah Palin’s book is “An American Life.”

This week is the annual celebration of American Education Week. This celebration spotlights the importance of providing every child with a good-quality public education and the need for everyone to do his or her part in making public schools great.

Centre County’s two Communities that Care groups started a joint venture in March 2008, writing useful columns for students and parents.

They killed a killer last week. I kept waiting to feel something when news came that John Allen Muhammad had been executed in Virginia. As a staunch opponent of capital punishment, I wanted some nugget of remorse at the knowledge that the government had taken his life.

I answer the phone and hear a familiar voice.

Today marks the end of another home football season for Penn State. For many of us, the years ahead will bring more afternoons in Beaver Stadium. But this afternoon, a group of men will play their last game in Beaver Stadium — their home for the past four years.