Category Archives: Comment and Opinion
The Rainbows are Coming!
The Rainbows will soon be a topic of conversation all over Bradford. For those of you who have no clue who the Rainbows are, they are a group of people that gather in national forests across the country, numbered in the thousands, and pray for the country. That’s what they claim. The Rainbows are infamous [...]
Freedom of Speech
I’m pretty sure that I’ve made my stance on freedom of speech pretty clear. Although some local sites don’t approve of this, I allow just about anything to be posted in the form of comments, and have even opened up a section for “user submitted articles”. Some might question why I will allow a comment [...]
Comment and Opinion
I have decided to remove this post. Not because of pressure from anyone, but because I simply wanted to get an opinion out, and the post has served it’s purpose. I was kind of angry when I wrote this editorial, and I cannot see where it benefits the site to continue to display the story. [...]
Health Care Reform Law is unconstitutional
(The following commentary by Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett explains why he joined the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Health Care Reform Law.) We can all agree that health care reform is necessary. As Pennsylvania’s attorney general, I have made health care a priority. In 2009 alone, the attorney general’s Health Care Section assisted [...]
Open Records Request Denied
Bradford City Clerk, John Peterson, has denied BradfordPA.Info’s request to provide records naming the donor of the money that went to remodel the police station to accommodate the dispatch switch, citing a code that allows for the withholding of records when it comes to the identity of persons making donations. BradfordPA.Info is still curious as [...]
Bradford Mayor Tom Riel Admits That Dispatch Change Won’t Save Much Money
Letter to the Editor, From the Editor Excerpts (in block quotes) in this story were taken from the Bradford Era. The main point that was being discussed in this article was that the temporary holding cell, in the Bradford City Police Station, is an issue to the dispatch change, because it will no longer be [...]
Editors Opinion on Article in the Era Regarding Riel and the State Police
The following quotes were taken from an article in the Bradford Era. The article in it’s entirety can be seen here. Two municipal officials believe the Pennsylvania State Police have overstepped their bounds in dealing with local residents, and have gone so far to say the actions of some troopers border on harassment. Bradford City [...]
Excercise Your Right to Speak Freely
In many ways, there was more free speech before the printing press was invented than at any time since. Yes, we have more rights today to criticize government, but strangely, until recently technology has reduced each individual’s ability to effectively do it. The Internet offers the promise to advance free speech to unprecedented levels – [...]
Know your City Code
Knowing your city’s code is not only important because of fines for not obeying, but because it is in place to protect the health of residents and keep the city from being an eyesore. Most residents have no idea what is included in the Bradford City Code. Walking down any street in Bradford, one can [...]
Bradford Police Can’t Help a City that Won’t Help Itself
Increasingly, more and more crimes are being witnessed, and barely any of them being reported. Bradford City Police try their best to do their jobs, but they cannot be everywhere at once and they cannot read the mind of someone who witnessed a crime. The crimes don’t necessarily have to be large ones to be [...]





Activist Group Using Sensationalism to Gain Support
Last night, a documentary was screened at the Coudersport Public Library. The documentary was about the struggles that a teen faced being gay in a small town. Much ado was made over the documentary, most of it from the activist group that created, and is showing the movie “Out in the Silence”. The activists behind [...]