Columns
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Matt Rhule: Can This Happy Valley Guy Return the Glory to Nebraska Football?
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Maybe you were too distracted during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend to focus on a particular development in college football. No, I’m not talking about Penn State’s triumph over Michigan State, as encouraging as that was to Nittany Lion fans. And I’m not talking about Michigan’s 45-23 pounding of Ohio State, as shocking as that was…
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Opinion: State College Should Become a 4-Day Workweek Test Lab
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Raise your hand if you’re currently working five days a week and would hate dropping down to four. No one? A four-day workweek would be awesome and State College is the perfect place to test it out. Here’s why. State College is already one of the most flexible places to work in the country. The…
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Nonpartisan Journalism Is Vital to the Future of Pa. Here’s How You Can Keep It Going
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For Giving Tuesday 2022, support Spotlight PA’s independent, nonpartisan investigative journalism for Pennsylvania and your gift will be TRIPLED.
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Looking Out for No. 2
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In keeping with the standard practices of the motion picture and television industries, I’m providing this disclaimer: the following material may be suitable for mature audiences only. In fact, I’m hoping mature audiences pay attention to it because there is a lifesaving message at the end. In September 1972, a groundbreaking album was released that…
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Give Wisely to Maximize Your Charitable Impact
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During this holiday season, we feel it may be helpful to review some ideas for year-end giving. Two studies conducted at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University found that giving to others makes us happier than giving to ourselves. To help you share this joy, here are some ideas for year-end giving, although there’s…
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Getting to 10 Wins the Hard Way, for Penn State Football and Sean Clifford
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Penn State’s 35-16 victory over Michigan State on Saturday gave the Nittany Lions their fourth 10-win regular season in the past seven seasons the hard way. Winning double-digit games in a regular season is tougher than it looks. Since joining the Big Ten Conference in 1993, Penn State has had 10 or more regular season…
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Home Alone, State College Edition
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I miss my wife. I’m surprised at myself: She’s only been away three days. During early COVID, I knew people who didn’t touch another human being for six months. I don’t want to minimize how hard that must have been, but these folks lived alone. They were used to solitude. I’m not. I was better…
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Nature’s Ways: The Striking Winterberry Holly
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Few autumn sights are more striking than the early morning sun illuminating the scarlet berries and golden foliage of winterberry holly. Almost everyone knows the American holly that is used for holiday decorations, but few are familiar with the more common Pennsylvania hollies. In addition to American holly (Ilex opaca), several other species of this…
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Snow Storms and Sunshine: It’s All Relative
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The early snow in Happy Valley and the cold streak here in the South seem to have caught everyone a little off guard. It’s all relative folks. You could live in Buffalo. Take it from me, I did. It was November of 2014, and I was working for the Buffalo Sabres. I had just moved…
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James Franklin at 100 Career Victories: ‘He’s Just the Most Consistent Dude’
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PISCATAWAY, N.J. — More than four dozen reporters and TV people were squeezed into a small room adjacent to the Penn State locker room in the bowels of SHI Stadium here Saturday night. Penn State had just defeated Rutgers, 55-10, like it always does— the Nittany Lions are 31-2 vs. the Scarlet Knights with their…