Everyone's Opinion Newsletter

With all the debates over national health care and continued war it seems that a vital issue to Pennsylvanians is being overlooked. That issue is the further deregulation of our electricity providers. It has already been scheduled by our state government to go into effect next year.

As with all “deregulation” the stated purpose is to provide incentive for competition across state and local lines. We will, according to the key word riddled arguments of deregulati...

On January 21, 1921 Justice George Sutherland of the U.S. Supreme Court in an annual address to the New York State Bar Association made this observation: “It is not the right of property which is protected, but the right to property. Property, per se, has no rights; but the individual –the man- has three great rights, equally sacred from arbitrary interference: the right to his LIFE, the right to his LIBERTY, the right to his PROPERTY…. The three rights are so bound together...

Sir Winston Churchill believed that history could tell us the future and that all nations rise and fall. The magnificent Egyptian civilization lasted for 3000 years; America (1492-2009) is 517 years old. Do you wonder if we can go that far?

When Winston Churchill was a young officer in India, he asked his mother to send him a complete set of Edward Gibbon (1737-1794). Gibbon was a very thorough historian who was and still is today very much admired by people who delve into ...

Dear Neighbor,

Hello! I'm Jason Ibrahim, and as a Republican candidate for Altoona City Council, I have a passion to serve our city. With your help, I hope to make our hometown more of what it already is - a place where parents want to raise their children, entrepreneurs want to grow their businesses, and everyone has the opportunity to prosper and flourish.

As the son of a teacher and printing pressman, I witnessed the value of an h...

Good morning,

This is a report of my weekend, where I participated in "America's 9/11 Foundation" 2009 motorcycle ride. The foundation's purpose is to raise money to support the Fire, Police & EMS personnel, and the families of those first responder's killed in the line of duty. We are also committed to NEVER FORGET the attacks of September 11, 2001.

The ride took us (along with about 650 other motorcycles) on Friday from Somerset through...

Everyone's Opinion Newsletter,

I'm not sure that what I have to say is an opinion more than a desire I would like to see happen or come about in September for our troops that belong to the National Guard in Frankstown who will be coming home in September.

That desire is: a victory parade to honor and show how proud we are of them for putting their live...

Recently two Amish families’ homes were ordered padlocked by a Cambria County judge due to a failure to comply with his orders concerning the disposal of human waste from their privies. The chief impetus for this order seems to rest on the health and safety of others. If we use some common sense here we’ll see that something certainly stinks and it’s not the Amish’s crap but the crap, which comes out of this judge’s mouth.

Human waste is of mino...