I just took my first trip through our 2009 federal income tax return. I reached a startling conclusion: Our family is not paying enough in federal income tax.

Sen. Joe Scarnati of nearby Brockway is also Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor, having been Constitutionally thrust into that position by the death of the former occupant, Catherine Baker Knoll.

I was unpleasantly amazed to read that no one on Falls Creek Borough Council would second Mayor Charley Moore's motion to send a letter opposing the tolling of I-80. There are two trucking companies in the borough limits, one just outside and a pipeline supply business nearby that were attracted by I-80. The technical school just outside the borough also favors a free I-80.