Michael Sauers October 26, 2025 The existential threat of AI is extinction. This is a rising sentiment that is pushing other concerns such as fake news, polarization, threats to democracy, deep fake harassment, scams, bias, discrimination, job loss, economic...
Michael Sauers October 2, 2025 The Trump Presidency is in panic mode. Indications, instinct and Boomer Wisdom tells me that the Epstein information, complete with videos and no redactions, is going to cause major problems for Trump and many other wealthy and connected...
Michael Sauers September 20, 2025 When the value or worth of an idea is counter to the interests of the majority, the idea has to be sequestered into muddy waters. Secrecy! Intimidation! Denial! This post is about strategies that government and industry uses to limit...
Phil Kaufman/Michael Sauers September 16, 2025 Where to begin? This is a reasonable question when you're talking about Phil Kaufman. He is a man of enormous courage, intellect and grit. For several decades he spoke truth to power and to the citizens of the Greater...
Conservation to Industrial Presented by Thomas Russell Published 9/14/2025 My name is Tom Russell and I am a 35 year resident of Packer Township. My family lives in the Hollow just downstream from the Tamaqua Area Water Authority spillway. Quakake, as my Mom and Dad...
Michael Sauers September 4, 2025 I make no bones about my position on public education. It needs to be adequately funded, which it is not, because it is an indispensable component of a free society. Substantial funding for public education should be a priority as it...
Michael Sauers August 28, 2025 The Forgotten Wilderness by Tom Brown is an easy read that builds an understanding of the interconnections of nature and its connection to us. Starting in lawns and working his way through hedgerows, abandoned areas, ponds, streams,...
Michael Sauers August 29, 2025 According to David Vine, Professor of Anthropology at American University, "the United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem; the...
Michael Sauers August 18, 2025 On a recent trip to Martha's Vineyard I learned that the island is overrun with people, turkeys and ticks. People, with our superior brain power and free will could solve our Martha's Vineyard and worldwide overpopulation problem but we...
Michael Sauers August 2, 2025 The Greater Hazleton Area is not the only "sacrifice area". There are hundreds of them spread across the U.S.A. Above and below ground coal mining with all of its negative consequences (too numerous to list, do some research) started the...
Michael Sauers July 3, 2025 It is a given that an investment in equitable education is by far the best economic development tool. Think-tanks, corporations, universities and governments proclaim this through countless studies. It is the foundation and surpasses...
Gerard Hoefling, Co-founder of Greenfire Coalition July 4, 2025 This Fourth of July, I invite everyone who can read this to join me in reaffirming faith in our shared United States of America and to our sacred heritage bestowed by the signers of the Declaration of...