Editorials
Newspapers are not fake news: Editorial
Editor’s note: The Press & Journal is running the following editorial, provided by the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association, to address attacks on journalists as the “enemy of the …
Columnists
It’s time to take advantage of Penn State offerings: Susannah Gal
I saw with joy the sign across Main Street at North Union — “Welcome Back Students.”
What a wonderful way to celebrate the beginning of the new term at Penn State Harrisburg …
Learning from the past on the free market: Mike Folmer
Irish-born political thinker and British statesman Edmund Burke said: “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.”
King George III should have listened to Mr. Burke, …
Don’t gamble the planet’s future on unproven technologies: Hugh Sealy
A group of senators recently introduced a bill that aims to combat climate change by funding research into “negative emission technologies,” which take greenhouse gases out of the …
International air travel: What a nightmare it is!: Ed O'Connor
It took five weeks and a total of 16,130 miles for our round trip from Cuenca, Ecuador, to Romania. Traveling would be great if Scotty could just “beam us up.”
As it is, going vast …
U.S. health system not as bad as study says: Sally Pipes
America spends twice as much on health care as its peers in the developed world yet fares worse on a range of health indicators, including life expectancy and infant mortality.
That’s the …
Taxpayers deserve explanations when government grows: Mike Folmer
I’ve searched both the U.S. and Pennsylvania constitutions and I can’t find it. Where is it written government must grow each and every year? Why isn’t government expected to live …
Letters
Commission needed to create fair voting districts: Letter to the Editor
I have been volunteering with Fair Districts PA (www.fairdistrictspa.com)for about 15 months and have sat in on Pennsylvania Senate and House state government committee meetings.
I have followed …
Middletown Swim Club board appreciates chance to be heard: Letter to the Editor
We would like to take this opportunity to thank the Press & Journal for giving us a platform to state our position as a new board of directors with the Middletown Swim Club.
When we first …
PSU student’s cars, not students themselves, are issue: Letter to the Editor
The following comments are in response to both an article and an editorial in the May 16 Press & Journal with respect to parking problems resulting from college students in rental properties, and …
Let citizens help draw district boundaries: Letter to the Editor
Is the plumbing working right related to the pipes of Pennsylvania democracy?
It took awhile (three election cycles, 2012, 2014 and 2016) to show the evidence of a legal term called …
Middletown Area School District leadership silences students on walkout: Letter to the Editor
As a parent of Middletown Area School District students, I received the March 7 National School Walkout letter from the superintendent, Dr. Lori Suski. While I appreciate the …
Get safer schools by design: Letter to the Editor
The recent school shooting in Florida continues an unsettling trend of assaults on students in their neighborhood schools. While the debate will continue at the national level on proposals for arming …
Column on death row inmates’ rights a joke: Letter to the Editor
I’m writing in regards to the Jan. 31 column “Pa. death row like torture for its inmates” by Witold Walczak, legal director of the ACLU of Pennsylvania.
What a joke.
Let me …
Pennsylvania doesn’t need politicians making legislative districts: Letter to the editor
Article 2, Section 16 of Pennsylvania’s Constitution says in part that legislative districts “shall be composed of compact and contiguous territory as nearly equal in population as …
Three Mile Island bailout? Not on the backs of Pennsylvania taxpayers: Letter to the Editor
This letter is in response to the Jan. 24 guest column in the Press & Journal titled “Closing Three Mile Island would hurt education, communities” by Steelton-Highspire School …
From the Vault article involved grandfather, safe: Letter to the Editor
My wife was reading the Dec. 27 P&J and then she said, “OMG!”
The old news article that you printed on the From the Vault page about a robbery of $26,000 was my grandfather’s …
