Election Day is just a bit more than six weeks away, and understandably, the majority of the focus for the Nov. 3 vote is on the presidential race.
Sometimes I really wonder what are we thinking.
A crowd of 59,088 fans jammed Shea Stadium in Flushing, N.Y. on Wednesday night, July 9, 1969.
It’s getting nowhere near the level of attention of the coronavirus pandemic itself, but data released Thursday makes it clear there’s another serious health issue about which our communities, state and nation need to become more aware
Outside of the devastating and frustrating coronavirus pandemic itself, the debate over returning to in-person school is THE top of mind issue for anyone with children or grandchildren due to go back.
I love baseball, and I’ve got to admit I’ve enjoyed having some actual Major League games to watch over the past week or so.
In our story published Thursday about renovations being made at The Campus Theatre in Lewisburg to prepare for a potential reopening next month, Theatre Executive Director Scotta Magnelli had a great line about their developing plans.
There aren’t many things with which nearly everyone agrees.
Thirty-seven years ago today my wife Mary and I became parents for the first of what would be four times.
Three weeks ago, I wrote the following in this space:
At another time in history, depending on who I worked for, I might have been writing my last column today.
Most days I bring my lunch to work. It saves time. It saves money. And I can be more careful about what I’m eating.
Each day at The Daily Item, I am part of a reporting and editing process that handles tens of thousands of words and dozens of images in print and online.
Most of the opinions and thoughts I share in my weekly column on this page labeled “Local” focus on the Valley, its people, and issues.
I’ve sometimes felt a little bit guilty about how I’ve spent Memorial Day weekend.
In this time of tremendous and growing uncertainty, one thing is becoming increasingly certain.
After a long workday last Monday, I shut down my computer and headed downstairs from my home office around 6 p.m.
I’ve never been much of a prognosticator.
There are weeks when I sit down to compose this Sunday column when I have no idea what I’m going to write about.
Considering all the issues we are facing these days, the lack of transparency being shown by our state government about what information to disclose about the coronavirus pandemic might seem pretty low on the list of things to worry about.
I'm happy to report this morning that since the Easter Bunny's business was considered both essential and life-sustaining, baskets were able to be delivered mostly as normal.
Here’s a potentially cringe-inducing joke I recalled from my childhood last week:
One of the things you discover when your kids are grown and out on their own is that you don’t automatically or easily make friends when you move into a new neighborhood.
Under normal circumstances, how often do you have an exchange with someone that goes something like this?
From the moment I became an editor in the news department of a community newspaper in 1992 in Lafayette, Indiana, I have always registered to vote as an independent.
For several years back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, I taught journalism as an adjunct faculty member at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey.
OKLAHOMA CITY — One of the visits I make periodically to conduct training sessions for other CNHI newspapers took me to Stillwater, Oklahoma last week.
As a sports editor for several suburban New York community newspapers in the 1980s, I sometimes had to handle complaints from high school coaches and athletic directors who thought we were favoring one of their competing schools over them.
Regular readers know I am a huge fan of Aaron Sorkin’s scriptwriting.
I’m guessing not many of you remember long-time New York City radio DJ Harry Harrison.
Some of my favorite moments each day come during the commute from my home in East Buffalo Township to The Daily Item building in Sunbury.
One of my personal — OK selfish — hopes for 2020 is to finally see Lin Manuel Miranda’s heralded play “Hamilton.”
So, made any New Year’s resolutions for 2020?
If you like looking at lists of things, this is your moment. There are lists everywhere this time of year.
How you answer the following question, I’m guessing, will have a great deal to do with when you were born.
A few times a week — my goal is three — I drive down 4th Street to the Sunbury YMCA to do some walking and other exercises.
Horace Stoneham, the owner of the New York and later San Francisco Giants baseball teams from 1936 to 1976, was vilified in New York when he announced he would move the team out west prior to the 1958 season.
A little over a week ago, as 3-year-old Arabella Parker lay dying from the injuries sustained in an October beating, members of The Daily Item news team gathered to discuss our next steps in reporting this tragedy.
Forget thinking about preparing the turkey, stuffing and green bean casserole for a few moments, if you will.
In what seems to be an almost weekly occurrence these days, another new streaming service — Disney+ — launched last week.
While editing one of our many election advance stories the other day, I caught a mistake on the date for this year’s election.
With Halloween once again upon us on Thursday, I’ve got a confession to make.
I had the opportunity to speak to the current class of Leadership Susquehanna Valley on Thursday. As usual, The Daily Item sponsored the group’s Communication-themed day. That won me about 15 minutes to address the members of this year’s class.
The late Indira Gandhi, India’s first and still only female prime minister, is reported to have said something in a 1982 interview that I think means more today than it did then.
I’ve never been much for awards shows on TV, but most years until recently, I did catch at least part of the Emmys.
Regular readers know I have been a New York Mets fan most of my life.
I had the radio turned off in my car the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
One of the first things I learned when I moved to the Valley in 2015 was that you can get to a lot of big cities from here in about 3 hours.