This weekend’s editorial is about potential harm and actual harm, from a couple of different vantage points. For example, widespread uneasiness at this time continues to focus on vaping. Questions and concerns about it have been on the minds of people young and not-so-young for about as ...

Altoona natives, about to arrive in the downtown after a long absence, usually cannot help harboring certain expectations about what they will see, even if they haven’t kept in touch with their roots for years or even decades. Most returnees, while reflecting on their Altoona past as they ...

As the end of January approaches, the holiday shopping frenzy and the spending that accompanied it increasingly take the proverbial back seat to things more current — that is, of course, except for lingering holiday-related credit card debt. Now the attention is shifting in a big way to ...

Based on the Blair County Convention Center’s latest financial report, the facility is poised for an optimistic future, assuming that nothing horrific like the COVID-19 pandemic derails it. For the benefit of newcomers to the county, as well as others who might have lost track of the center ...

Blair County has experienced numerous worse winters than the one currently upon us — much worse. However, what is most important now is not statistics comparing this winter with ones from the near or distant past; it is whether resources in Altoona and Blair County beyond are prepared to ...

One thing even today’s senior citizens still can recall from their early days in a school classroom was their teacher telling them to put on their “thinking caps.” They might chuckle about that recollection now, but those two words made an impression that they still might pass on to ...