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Greene County Opinion

System not fair

Supporters of public education are demanding that the Legislature end its highly political way of paying for public schools and replace it with a predictable, rational formula that is fair to all districts.Their diagnosis of the problem is 100 percent accurate. The question is whether the ...

‘Dr. Chronicles Rainmaker Show’

History often records how sincere people have carefully and humbly planted their seeds of hope into the soil of barren and broken dreams. ItĢƵ only natural that folks yearn for time to flow like a healing stream into those newly planted rows and bring forth a harvest that satisfies the soul ...

Rolling the dice

Gov. Tom Corbett is offering Pennsylvanians a Medicaid expansion plan that, at its heart, has the laudable goal of extending health coverage to hundreds of thousands of people who do not have it.But it is also fraught with risks that could ultimately do little to improve the lives of ...

Reader responds to recent column

Excellent!The Greene County MessengerĢƵ guest commentary in the September 13-19 issue titled “Is New York Times’ story right or wrong about Greene County?” by Jessica Vozel is a doozy thought provoker.Vozel gallantly defends Greene Countians against the New York Times’ unflattering ...

In danger?

By many accounts, Gov. Tom Corbett is in trouble — and not just among Democrats.A Franklin & Marshall College poll of 594 voters released last week shows only 38 percent of Republicans think Corbett deserves a second term; only 20 percent of all voters give him a thumbs-up. As for ...

Is story right or wrong about Greene County?

Recently, a New York Times reporter paid a visit to Waynesburg, in Greene County, to gather opinions about the possibility of an attack on Syria following its use of chemical weapons against its own citizens on August 21. What they found out was … well, I’ll call it ...