Opinion
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Op-Ed: Why Hiring Terry Smith Is the Smart Strategy for Penn State
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“The granddaddy of all [strategic] mistakes is competing to be the best, going down the same path as everybody else and thinking that somehow you can achieve better results.” – Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter, perhaps the leading expert on business strategy “I don’t want Penn State to become the kind of a place…
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Letters: Penn State Cancer Institute’s Failed Leadership; Stand Up for Community by Supporting WPSU
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Vindication tastes bitter when it comes at such a cost, but the record must now show: every alarm I sounded was justified. On Thursday, Nov. 20, Spotlight PA exposed a damning internal review of the Penn State Cancer Institute: chemotherapy overdoses, treatment delays that let cancers spread unchecked, incomplete patient records, and a toxic workplace…
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Gratitude With a Touch of Attitude
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Last Monday, I chanced upon an e-bike lying on its side on the strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street. Odd, I thought. I looked around, saw no one, continued on my way. The bike was still there that afternoon and the next morning and all the rest of the week. Stolen, then ditched?…
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Op-Ed: We Are in a Dangerous Climate. But We Are Far From Helpless
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In July, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency’s intent to undo “the endangerment finding” on greenhouse gases. While other scandals, disruptions and divisions consume our attention, we cannot lose sight of the fact that human-caused climate change is a persistent and accelerating threat and that we are far from helpless against it. We have choices and…
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Letters: State Budget Fails Direct Care Workers; Research ‘Dealer School’ Before Enrolling
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I am outraged that Gov. Shapiro and the legislature once again passed a state budget that ignores 94% of Pennsylvania’s direct care workforce. Only a small portion of home care workers, those in the participant-directed program, received funding. The rest—the caregivers employed by home care agencies serving older adults and people with disabilities across this…
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Battista: Who to Believe?
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Halloween 2025 has come and gone but it reminded me of one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on a naïve audience. On Oct. 30, 1938, just over 87 years ago, a then 23-year-old Orson Welles used a relatively new technology (for the masses) to put fear into the entire nation with his CBS radio broadcast of…
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We Had to Destroy the Universities to Save Them
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“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” – Ronald Reagan Skim most any document wordsmithed by President Trump’s courtiers and it can almost sound reasonable. Take the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” a letter sent to nine universities that sets conditions…
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Letters: Candidates and Casino; Kepler Barn Legacy; Retain Judges and Justices; 20-Second Hug Club
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The upcoming elections for College Township Council will determine who will oversee College Township’s efforts to mitigate any harms caused by the soon-to-open Happy Valley Casino. Three candidates are running for two open seats. This is an off-year election, so voter turnout will likely be low. Your vote will make a difference! Candidate interviews discussing…
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An Important Voice of the Past Rises to Guide Us Once More
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Eighty years ago this week (Oct. 25, 1945) Angelo Paterno rose to speak to an audience in New York City. World War II had concluded just weeks earlier. The awful scope of some of man’s greatest atrocities was still not fully understood. A mighty struggle against overt fascism and authoritarianism abroad had set the world…
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Penn State: What Have We Become and What Will We Be?
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“I don’t want Penn State to become the kind of a place where an 8-2 season is a tragedy. You can’t tell kids that a football loss is a tragedy. It’s not.” –Joe Paterno 1971 Given the events of the past two weeks, it’s fair to ask if Penn State has indeed become the kind…