Opinion

Development could be coming more easily to a protected stream near you!

Now that we have an Ebola Czar, can we deal with the real crisis at hand?

Jim Harbaugh and Peyton Manning get a lot of camera love on the sideline. Mike Glennon, not so much.

One more view of the law-making, crime-fighting, state legislators.

One in four women will be victims of domestic violence during her lifetime. It is past time to take measures to prevent this.

What we can do about poverty, real estate, and the declining population in Erie County.

The Islamic State is moving toward Baghdad, so it's time for the U.S. to join a conversation that's been going on without it for several month.

Glenn Greenwald broke the Edward Snowden story. Now he's simplified the case for privacy into a 20 minute monologue. 

The courts have blocked voter ID laws in Wisconsin, PA, and Others. Here's what you need to know about heading to the polls in November.

One woman's choice to "die with dignity" may be the tipping point in an age-old debate.

Sometimes we all need some perspective from the outside to understand the inside.

The Supreme Court tacitly upholds same-sex marriage, Scalia's gone rogue, and the Indiana State Police are cuffing for Christ. You figure it out. 

The streets are beginning to talk about the next Mayor's race. It's worth a listen.

If Rand Paul is in for 2016, he's going to have to face the sins of his father.

Erie-native Ben Frazier asks many, many questions as he weighs in from his current home of Rochester, N.Y. In that city, they've not only embraced graffiti and street art, but they've elevated it to exalted status, celebrating it in a popular yearly festival that serves to inspire the citizenry