Op/Ed: Time for legislative candidates to take the ‘No Nonsense’ pledge
By Susan Rzucidlo, Special to The Times
Susan Rzucidlo
Ethics in politics. It’s not an oxymoron or at least, it shouldn’t be. However, given Pennsylvania’s long and recent history of corruption scandals among members of both parties, well, sometimes I wonder. Will they ever learn? Will we – the voters – ever learn?
All too often, it seems like integrity is the exception to the norm in Harrisburg....
Social media mayhem: can we learn to agree to disagree?
By Kelly Hockenberry, Columnist, The Times
The inauguration is only a few days away and the chatter on social media is beginning to escalate. I guess it’s no wonder considering the President-Elect is “somewhat” of a Twitter fan. If history is our guide, we should be prepared to be inundated with a flood of online opinions come Friday.
I’ll admit, I was shocked by the back and forth on Facebook...
Letter from the editor: A comment on comments
A few changes to our commenting system debut
By Mike McGann,
You may have noticed a few changes here at The Times over the past few months, from a new mobile and tablet-friendly design to this weekend’s evolution to a new commenting system — faced on the Facebook platform.
Like many other publishers, large and small, we’ve wrestled with the balance between both having a true back and forth...
Letters to the editor and the greater conversation
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
We get letters and then sometimes, we get letters.
Some praise the acts of others (once in a while, even us), some take various public and elected officials to task (including us). All of them have one thing in common: they represent the opinion of our readers (you’ll note by looking just above the headline, on this column, the word ‘opinion,’ denoting...
Don’t pop that bubbly just yet
State Senate appears likely to water down liquor privatization beyond recognition
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
You might just want to hold that celebration over Pennsylvania privatizing liquor sales.
Despite smiles and warm assurances, the state Senate doesn’t appear to be on board with the bill that passed the state House of Representatives and has support of Gov. Tom Corbett.
In fact, based...
Equal time: a male response to Kelly
Editor’s Note: In the interests of equal time, fairness and well, just because it’s so darn fun, we celebrate this Valentine’s Day by offering space for a rebuttal of our popular Sunday columnist, Kelly Hockenberry by her husband, Joe.
By Joe Hockenberry, Special to The Times
I walked into my Monday morning hoops game this past week and was greeted with the following: “Man, your...
Cell tower opposition lacks common sense
We’re surrounded by EM and RF fields — by our own choice
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
If there’s one thing that’s changed dramatically since I first had my written words published in a local newspaper in 1980, it’s how rapidly technology has changed not just how we gather (and report) the news, but the stories we write and how much understanding of technology we need to...
Today, we are all an imaginary cow