Opinion

Williamsport City Codes Administrator Joe Gerardi who sets the record straight on Mirabito Properties Codes compliance. Gerardi refutes the political attack ad as inaccurate.

If you're in the 83rd State House District, chances are you've recieved several polical ads in your mailbox from both the 2012 campaign offices of Rick Mirabito and Harry Rogers. You may have cringed, like me, at the colorful flyer that featured State Rep. Rick Mirabito alongside a cockroach. more»

The signs are everywhere. 
Our state parks are in the crosshairs of the Corbett administration. more»

Promised Land is a 2012 drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Rosemarie DeWitt, Frances McDormand, Hal Holbrook and Titus Welliver. more»

U.S. Rep. Tom Marino (PA-10) issued the following statement today upon the announcement of the Supreme Court’s decision on the challenge to Obamacare: more»

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Whether you drive a car or truck, ride a bicycle, or even walk — it's no secret that Pennsylvania's roads and bridges are in serious trouble. But instead of the members of Congress actually working to fix these enormous literal and figurative potholes, they are using transportation funding as a partisan football. more»

David Ira Kagan

This letter is to explain to my Watson Township constituents (especially the 30+ who went to the polls last November to vote me in as a write-in candidate) and the general public why I have decided to resign as a Watson Township Supervisor. There are two basic reasons: more»

DIMOCK -- Dimock Proud released a video today highlighting the town’s landowners, residents and business owners positive feelings towards the natural gas development that is occurring there. The video is a response to an earlier misleading production produced by out of town anti-natural gas activists and highlighted by CNN’s IReport platform. more»

Tower for drilling horizontally into the Marcellus Shale Formation for natural gas, from Pennsylvania Route 118 in eastern Moreland Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, USA (Wikimedia Commons: By Ruhrfisch)

"To frack" is an infinitive phrase meaning to break up shale rock with an ungodly high-pressure mixture of water, sand and a chemical brew that any witch would die for. more»

Bull Run Vista Anadarko gas well pad

To frack, or not to frack: that is the question:

Whether ‘tis better in the ground to leave the gas

Within the shale offering vast fortune,

Or to frack risking a sea of troubles,

And by fracking endure them. To drill, too deep—

Drill more—and by our wells’ wealth to say we end

Our heartaches, but bring on the earthquakes more»

I sit, and read, and listen to the roar

Of passing gas trucks up on forty-four;

I fret and fume about my fractured fate,

About the greed and graft in my home state.

That Pennsylvania’s Representatives

Care more for moneymaking than what lives

Makes me despair and think that all is lost. more»

Next week the House will debate the governor's Marcellus package that has been introduced by House leadership as HB 1950. At 127 pages, the bill links together a county-collected, optional impact fee changes to gas drilling regulations and redistribution of income from the Oil and Gas Lease Fund. more»

RAPE U. Will Counter Any Effect Of These Nutty Democrats, Socialists, Environmentalists.

A new institution of higher education will open its doors this fall in Williamsport. It is called Reckless Advanced Petrochemical University (or RAPE U.), located on the corner of Shale and Water Streets. The school’s president, Dr. Marcellus Frackenstein, when asked about the college’s mission, replied, “To educate as many fracking people as possible.” more»

Currently enjoying what will apparently be a season-long run at the Millbrook Playhouse in Bald Eagle Township, Clinton County, just west of Lock Haven, the Infinity water truck parade show can apparently be viewed at any time, day or night, 24 hours, 7 days a week, every month of the year. more»