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Letters To The Editor

Letter to the editor

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 ...

Letter to the editor

Check homeowners for flood coverage Watching neighbors on Linn Drive in Washington Township haul ruined furniture and appliances to the curb after this month's storm is a difficult reminder that a normal homeowners policy is not built to handle water like this.
 As an advocate for consumers ...

Letter to the editor

What champs? Despite football’s rabid fans stuffing the North Shore like a mattress in a briefcase last week and setting an attendance record for the annual NFL Draft, Pittsburgh will have a difficult time maintaining its “City of Champions” moniker. After a mediocre season with three ...

I am sure that Lady Liberty is hanging her head in shame. Our country, this beautiful land of the free, is sinking slowly into autocracy. This is not what our Founding Fathers envisioned when they wrote the U.S. Constitution. The present administration needs an education as to what is in the ...

A link between past and present

Here in Connellsville we are starting our city’s celebration of the American Revolution with an American history contest. Let’s review for the test: In the early 1770s, King George III rejected all restraints on his power. He sent militarized police to American cities where they ...