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OP-ED: Learning you’re enough

Like many of you, I have spent large chunks of life chasing shiny things. In that regard, I have been distracted by a desire to appear successful by having the trappings of “success.” You know, the things that say, “I made it. Applause, please.” It started when I was a tween. ...

OP-ED: Steps required to rescue PSU-Fayette

Robb Rhodes has performed an estimable public service: He has put on the table a plan for the Penn State-Fayette campus now slated for the ash heap. Rhodes, the Fayette County controller, wants to convert the campus into a four-year "senior military college," along the lines of Norwich ...

OP-ED: Eighteen holes of fun … or not

They built a golf course all around my grandparents' house. The 18th fairway nearly cut through their backyard, and until we put wire grates over the windows, flying glass and golf balls were a common threat. Dad attempted to play golf a few times. As a little kid, he had fallen off a horse. ...

If you could change one thing …

Q. I just finished a week at a Leadership camp. One of the things I enjoyed the most was Open Talk time. The camp counselor posed a question, and we all responded. ItĢƵ the kind of thing you always do. I’d love to hear your responses to two of my favorite ones. First, if you could have one ...

The congressman makes much of little

Recently, our serially absent congressman, Guy Reschenthaler, ventured to write a newspaper commentary tooting his own horn, citing, for instance, the return home of Pennsylvania native Marc Fogel from a Russian prison. "President Trump secured [Fogel's] release within just three weeks in ...

Spilling the tea on energy drinks

Q. Please settle an argument with my mom. I drink what she says is too many energy drinks. I think I drink just enough to keep me sharp and they aid my cognition. She says in the hot summer they don’t hydrate me enough. I counter with the argument that, if I were stranded in a desert and only ...