I read two stories recently in the Jan. 14 Tribune-Review. One was on the front page, and the other was buried on page B7. Vastly different stories that made me wonder about their placement in the paper.

The first story was the front-page “Fentanyl’s Fearsome Toll.” Not front-page material, quite frankly. If people want to play Russian roulette with their lives by willfully putting synthetic opioids into their bodies, then so be it. The story portrays addicts as victims. They watch their friends die, and they still do it! That story could run every day on the front page with a different person’s photo — hell, put it on billboards — and it won’t change a thing.

Which brings me to story No. 2 on page B7: “Poorest districts see promised money snatched away.” This is a story every taxpayer should read and then question why our elected officials in Harrisburg are failing our children in public schools.

Spotlight PA stories … must-read front-page news. Overdose addict deaths … not so much. Bury it on B7.

Paul Hornbake

Bolivar

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