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Robert Krol
President Trump thinks tariffs will promote prosperity in America.  His trade policies reflect this view. The United States will impose a 10 percent across-the-board tariff on imports from …
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Photo by David von Diemar on Unsplash
Every year, thousands of murders in the United States remain unsolved. Today, there are 300,000 cold cases on the books, with thousands more added annually. However, a revolutionary technology …
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Letters to the editor
Recently I saw a picture of Trump and Melania standing in front of Mt. Rushmore. It made me realize how absurd it really was. I wonder how many Americans could identify the four images preserved in …
Re:  “Can there be too much of a good thing?”  Surely the cold water from the Pepacton Reservoir has changed the nature of the East Branch of the Delaware. It destroyed a …
Can you have more moderate-income housing without losing any more rural land? The answer here in Sullivan County is through the utilization of an existing NYS law that permits the construction …
PennDOT is holding a “cultural mitigation” meeting for the Skinner Falls Bridge in person and on Zoom on Wednesday, April 30. The only mitigation the public should demand is a new …
When President Biden returned U.S. citizens Brittney Griner, Paul Whelan and Evan Gerskovich home after being held captive in Putin’s Russia, Americans sighed in relief.  Similarly so when …
OPINION
Photos by Nico Bleu
I had been feeling cagey since the end of last year—A sort of heavy, bottom-of-the-stomach feeling. Something like a blend of existential dread and civic helplessness mixed with a million …
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Photo from Tim Dymond for Sullivan County Sheriff Facebook page
The International Union of Police Associations (IUPA) has endorsed Tim Dymond’s candidacy for Sullivan County Sheriff. The organization represents active-duty rank-and-file law enforcement …
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COLUMNS
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Libraries and gardens

Simple truth: Food for your mind. Food for your body. And as you work the soil, your spirit is renewed with the wonder of inherent growth. Perfect trifecta.

Creative impluse

Sometimes an idea or a concept just grabs you. You read it or you hear it, and it just makes total sense. That was my experience with Alfred North Whitehead. Whitehead, a 20th-century …

Child's play

I have always been enamored with the wisdom of children, especially toddlers. In those first few years, their appetite for learning and growing is unparalleled. They are innately moved to learn new …

BLOGS

An evolving Earth

For a long time, I did not think of the Earth as an evolving living entity. It was constant. The weather was constant. As a kid, I spent a lot of time outside. I worked as a YMCA camp …

To be or not to be 

One of the most powerful moments in cinematic history comes from the movie "Crimson Tide. " Following the destruction of a Russian Akula Class Attack Submarine, the USS Alabama SSBN (Submerged …