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Who is paying for NextEra? In an op-ed published last Sunday in the Herald-Standard, Park Burroughs suggested that taxpayers are paying to construct the newly announced power generation plant in Luzerne Township. That characterization overlooks an important fact about how the NextEra project ...

Letter to the editor

Nothing but lies “I will bring prices down on day one!" "I will stop the war between Ukraine and Russia on day one!" “There will be no more forever wars in the Middle East when I am president!" Every one of those statements were lies! Since Donald Trump has taken office all we have ...

OP-ED: The time to get AI right is now

As recently as early summer, artificial intelligence, or AI, was far from the center of public concern or worry. Now, it's at center stage, though to many it remains a mystery. During a recent class reunion, a friend confided that AI was a head-scratcher. "I don't know anything about it," he ...

OP-ED: Childlike, Trump demands his own way

At the height of mourning for President John F. Kennedy following his assassination, his widow, Jacqueline Kennedy, felt herself under pressure to buckle to demands that the national performing arts center planned for Washington, D.C., be named after her husband. She protested. "I don't think ...

EDITORIAL: Motorists: Heed school bus laws

School buses are rolling again, making their morning and afternoon rounds through our communities’ neighborhoods. We remind motorists to keep an eye out for children waiting at bus stops, walking along roads and crossing streets – and be ever mindful of the state's school bus laws. ...

EDITORIAL: For the love of the game

At the end of the day, they just wanted to play baseball. With a little ingenuity and cooperation, some of the young athletes competing in the rain-bedeviled Pony League World Series in Washington eventually got their wish. Torrential rainfall forced organizers to scale back last week’s ...