It was five years ago when the name Mary Winkler went national.
An English lord once said: “News is something someone wants suppressed. Everything else is just advertising.”
That may be a bit of an over-simplification, but there is some truth in it. Personally, I would amend the statement to read: Journalism is something someone wants suppressed. Everything else is just advertising.
It’s hard to believe, but Super Bowl week has arrived.
As a native Hoosier, it should be an exciting time since the game is going to be played in my home state with the eyes of the world watching. But from what I hear from back home, it’s a good time to get away from Indianapolis because of all the craziness.
In the business of journalism, there are certain things which are true.
One of those is criticism. And it runs both ways.
Have you ever known someone who would drive 20 miles out of their way to save four cents on a can of beans?
Our readers have spoken — and we appreciate it very much.
Let the bloodbath begin.
H.L. Mencken, the world-renowned student of the English language, writer, thinker, reporter and hard-hearted curmudgeon, has as many quotes useful in illustrating some of my own bitter and more contemptuous views than I have hairs on my head.
Endorsements.
We see them all of the time, especially in this presidential election year. Joe A endorses Candidate B and so on and so forth. It makes me nauseous.
In Friday’s newspaper, we had a story and editorial about the break-in at the zoning office in Honesdale Borough.
A very wise Székely man once said “Nem azért hogy együnk, azért eszünk hogy éljünk.”
Though Hungarian is often impossible to translate into English, a rough translation of this phrase might be ‘We don’t live for the joy of eating, we eat for the joy of living.”
I recently had a run in with a customer service toll-free hotline, where the only thing that seemed to be free was frustration.
This past weekend marked a milestone in my life.
Waymart Borough Council Member Charles Norella recently commented about efforts to get the Waymart Volunteer Ambulance Corps (WVAC) to pay for their workmen’s compensation insurance during a Waymart Borough Council Meeting documented by the TWI.
It is indisputable a lot has been written about the Honesdale Borough council in the past several months. I have written a lot of those stories and editorials.
It’s January again; the start of a brand new year.
Great.
It’s been a long time coming, but the end is finally near.
For millennia, prognosticators from the Persian and Delphic Sibyls and Saint John the Divine to Nostradamus; right up to the Harold Camping in the present age have foretold that the end is nigh using their various divinations, dreams and visions.
Editor’s note: It is the general policy of this newspaper not to post letters to the editor in our online edition. However, with the overwhelming amount of responses we’ve had to this particular issue, we felt it is appropriate to place it on our website.
