Your View

Journalists like to tell the story. They do not like to become the story.

Laws have been passed to protect the environment and health issues, yet we still get bad decisions from our appointed and elected officials. The mind-set of some people on these issues is appalling.

Gary Olson hit the nail on the head with his Your View article re the situation in the Middle East. Very few people have the courage to tell the truth about what is truly happening in that area.

The election is almost here. Some people will be voting for a particular party. Some need to see commercials and debates to make up their mind. That's everyone's prerogative and part of what makes America great.

Congratulations to all of the staff at the PPL Center Friday night at the Phantoms game. Every single person we met, from the security people to the ushers and the concession staff, were courteous, helpful and genuinely interested in making sure we had a good time. I have never experienced...

The days are getting shorter, pumpkin spice lattes have returned and grocery stores across America are stocking up on those weird decorative gourds. Halloween is approaching.

Afsana was fortunate, as fortunes go for girls in Afghanistan. A teenager of 16, she was given in marriage to a man 12 years her senior. The fortunate part was that her husband, Khuram, was kind and genuinely cared for her. He promised her that after they married she could finish her high...

In his recent Your View, professor Gary Olson parrots a laundry list criticizing Israel's settlement policy. His use of vitriolic rhetoric intends to portray Israelis as insincere in their negotiations toward a two-state solution. Using such words as "racist" and...

Oct. 11 is not highlighted on many wall calendars, but it's an important day to me and for many in Pennsylvania. Oct. 11 is National Coming Out Day, a day in which we recognize those with the courage to be who they are publicly, as well as those who provide support for people struggling...

Without quick action by the state Senate, Pennsylvania seniors will lose $24 million in benefits this year, stranding thousands on waiting lists, all because of a technicality that limits the Pennsylvania Lottery's ability to deliver.

When I learned of Bill Albert's unexpected passing Sept. 28, I was at an entertainment buyers conference in Nashville. The gregarious William J. Albert had been president of the Lehigh County Agricultural Society since 2008, but his involvement in the society's Great Allentown Fair...

We would like to take this opportunity to address the issue of the potential removal of Wehr's Dam in South Whitehall Township's Covered Bridge Park, and the study Wildlands Conservancy is conducting on the dam.

The occupied West Bank recently witnessed the biggest land grab in 30 years when Israel seized 990 acres belonging to five Palestinian villages to build 5,000 new housing units. The villages are al-Jaba'a, Surif, Wadi Fukin, Husan and Nahalin.

As the worst Ebola outbreak reaches the United States, the first person in the country diagnosed with the virus is in an isolation unit at Texas Presbyterian Hospital. Earlier, he was seen to have vomited in front of his apartment, and he was sent home after an initial visit to the emergency...

Increasingly, I have felt overwhelmed by news of droughts, tornadoes, tsunamis and hurricanes. Livelihoods and lives lost. Although the Lehigh Valley has not been severely affected, environmental news in other parts of the country and around the world has become increasingly alarming. I...