Americans follow the news less closely than they did a few years ago. That’s according to a research analyst focusing on news and information research at Pew Research Center. Here are some of the stats published with a recent article written by Naomi Forman-Katz, the Pew analyst: In ...
I received electronic correspondence from an email address that appeared to be a First Amendment attorney who represents our newspaper from time to time. The email was unexpected, but not implausible, so it piqued my interest. Without a thought, I clicked. I was informed this particular legal information was confidential and, therefore, encrypted. I was prompted to enter my password. I followed the instructions and typed my password. Nothing happened. Did I mention I had not a thought in my head? I exited and repeated the process. Again, nothing. Uh oh. Suddenly, a ...
Cheryl Geidner figured council members in Volant, a tiny borough north of Pittsburgh, would adopt a preliminary year-end budget despite no discussions at public meetings on the proposed financials. She never figured they’d raise property taxes by 57%. That’s what The Associated Press ...
As Christians around the world prepare today to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, one man will do his worship and preparations alone in an Asian prison cell. That’s where Hong Kong’s famous activist publisher Jimmy Lai is being held — in solitary confinement, no less — facing ...
Metro Editor Marly Reichert was puzzled by the phone call to our newsroom last week from a person offering a news tip about a local pilot who supposedly died in a military aircraft crash. The caller was adamant that pilot Lt. Col. Scott Julian of Cortland, whose obituary we carried recently, died Dec. 4 in a C-130H crash just outside of Warren. We frequently get news tips from well-meaning callers. We take the information and typically assign a reporter to dig into it. Sometimes the tips pan out; but frankly, the stories don’t always turn out to be exactly as the callers ...
Sometimes there are rights that are so accepted as part of the fabric of our democracy it’s believed they never will change. No, I’m not discussing the current hot-button controversial abortion rights issue. Rather, I’m speaking about a bedrock constitutional principle that even ...
