The death penalty is divisive. Support for and opposition to it is not as easy as political party or position. It is all over the map. There are people with firmly held convictions about crime and law enforcement who draw a line when it comes to capital punishment. There are very ...

With Altoona’s Kress Building now an officially completed component of the city’s downtown renaissance landscape, the city can look back with pride regarding what has been completed so far while continuing to look for new positive targets to pursue. Kress and, before it, the once ...

Penn State has firmly held priorities. But are they the ones the university wants people to believe? The football team came into the season with the highest rank it has ever held to start the year; it was No. 2, right behind Texas and ahead of longtime rival Ohio State. After a 2024-25 season ...

There are young people today who don’t have a clue what a rotary telephone was all about. They’re even more in the proverbial dark about the former existence of party lines and what they entailed — and what had to be endured — when part of one. Many young people probably can’t ...

The goals set for the 2025-26 school year by Altoona Area School District administrators are laudable, indeed. However, now that the goals are in place and have been made available to district residents and others interested in the school system’s goings-on, the challenge, going forward, ...

No matter when and/or how Pennsylvania’s budget impasse ends, members of the General Assembly need to exercise an examination of conscience into why they allowed the current fiscal embarrassment to persist for so long — now having passed the three-month mark for a basic budget-preparation ...