Jeff Colvin 
Iowa Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Josh Turek, who calls himself a “common-sense” moderate Democrat, has centered his campaign around — as he puts it — “cost, corruption, and cancer.” On cost, he promises to focus on bringing down the high cost of necessities for Iowans, like groceries, gas, electricity, rent, car insurance, and health insurance.
In an Op-Ed in the December 29 Gettysburg Times Bob Stilwell wrongly asserted that there is debate within the scientific community about human-caused climate change when in fact there is no such debate, and no doubts among actual climate researchers (scientists who actually publish their research findings in peer-reviewed scientific journals) that our burning of fossil fuels
Pennsylvania is the only natural gas producing state in the U.S. without a severance tax. This severely limits the state’s ability to cover the necessary costs of infrastructure development that must accompany any new business development. A severance tax is a tax imposed on an energy company for the natural resource that the company extracts,
Frankly, just about everything, and, as usual, it is complicated. In addition to President Trump’s dismissive attitude towards Russian interference in the 2016 election, his ill-advised actions and statements with respect to arms control, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), international cooperation, science, the rule of law, and the norms of democratic governance have raised