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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]