Opinion
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Frank: Forget Bucket Lists. Aging Is for Savoring
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As I entered the murky zone between middle and old age, I came up with a slogan: “If not now, when?” Meaning, I should go-be-do while I’m still hale and hearty. Specifically, that meant more hiking and biking. Results have been mixed. Yes, I hike and bike. But I also still work – by choice.…
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Op-Ed: Public Media Is Under Attack — And So Is Your Community
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Imagine turning on your TV or radio and finding silence where “Sesame Street,” local news and emergency alerts used to be. No more “Our Town” stories celebrating your neighbors in Centre County. No more trusted voices guiding your children through their earliest years. No more WPSU. That’s the future we could face if Congress approves…
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Editorial: A Better Way to Modernize Public Notices
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The Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association’s proposed “modernization” of the commonwealth’s law for public notices is an obvious attempt to move a print newspaper monopoly into the digital age. Over the last month, publishers like StateCollege.com have spoken with lawmakers and lobbyists about the issues with HB 1291. But PNA has shrugged off suggested amendments and critiques,…
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The Lasting Impact of a Coach
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“You coach a person, not a sport.” — John O’Sullivan School is over or ending just about everywhere, and the multi-billion-dollar summer camp industry is about to begin in earnest. According to IBISWorld (Industry, Business & Investment Services) the U.S. camp industry, which includes sports and recreational camps, has a direct and indirect economic impact…
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We’re Not Closing Campuses, We’re Optimizing Them
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When the university’s wordsmiths hide the possibility of layoffs behind words like “responding to challenges in agile ways,” or when they frame closing campuses as “optimizing” or “reshaping them,” they’ve got to be reminded that we’re all supposed to be in the truth-telling business here, not the spin business.
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Hook: Why Are So Many People Unsatisfied in the Workplace? Horrible Bosses
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Welcome back to work and happy day-after-Memorial Day to those of us who received Monday as a paid holiday! I hope you celebrated properly. Speaking of paid holidays, there are currently eleven federal holidays established by law in the United States. In addition, many people who get Thanksgiving Day off – always a Thursday –…
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Letters: Penn State Commonwealth Campuses Play Vital Role, Deserve Better From University
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WE ARE… Because of Commonwealth Campuses As Penn State faculty at University Park for 18 years, my students and I commend Commonwealth Campuses. Penn State DuBois, Fayette, Mont Alto, New Kensington, Shenango, Wilkes-Barre and York gave some of my best students their “start” on the “2+2 plan.” Eleven days ago, I congratulated the Bellisario College…
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Op-Ed: May No Act of Ours Bring Shame
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I once served as a member of Penn State’s Board of Trustees. For 12 years. From 1988 to 2000. That seems like a long time ago. But it has been a long time since I have seen both the Penn State administration and the leadership of the Board of Trustees display as much incompetence, arrogance…
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Today’s Challenges vs. Tomorrow’s Dreams: A Call for Defiant Optimism
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On July 2, 1862 this nation was at war for its very existence. The Union Army was retreating from a campaign to capture Richmond. Victory was far from certain. On that day, the United States Congress and President Lincoln had their eyes on a future clouded by massive uncertainty. Lincoln signed into law The Morrill…
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Hang in There, Class of 2025!
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You’d never know from all the happy faces at commencement on Saturday how anxious the Class of 2025 is. I know because all 19 students in my Editorial, Opinion and Commentary class were graduating seniors and almost all of them wrote about the things that are freaking them out. Back in the days of newsrooms,…