John Sise

John Sise of Hanover Township, Northampton County, has been exercising outdoors for 45 years in the Lehigh Valley.

Starbucks Workers United baristas and supporters rally for a fair union contract outside Starbucks East Coast distribution center on Nov. 19, 2025, in York, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Lisa Lake/Getty Images for Starbucks Workers United)

Opinion: Victim shaming won’t help solve poverty in U.S.

November 26, 2025 at 7:30 a.m.

Opinion: Is society’s purpose to generate wealth so that a very few can live extravagantly

John Sise with the bicycle he was riding when he hit a tree root in the ground and was thrown over the handlebars. (Photo courtesy of John Sise)

Opinion: Bicycle wreck along Lehigh Valley trail offers lesson in human decency

August 14, 2025 at 4:17 a.m.

Opinion: Bottom line is when you come across someone in need, stop and give them a hand

U.S. Deputy Marshals escort 6-year-old Ruby Bridges from William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in November 1960. The first grader was the only black child enrolled in the school, where parents of white students boycotted a court-ordered integration law and took their children out of school. (AP Photo)

Your View: Civil rights too important to be left to state governments

August 29, 2024 at 7:30 a.m.

Opinion: Through local laws, Black people were systematically denied the most basic of civil, if not human, rights.

Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court pose for their official photo in 2022. Seated from left: Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Samuel Alito and Elena Kagan. Standing behind from left: Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Ketanji Brown Jackson. (Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)

Your View: The Roberts Court adds to its dismal legacy

July 9, 2024 at 7:30 a.m.

Opinion: The judicial system will now be overloaded with lawsuits from every industry group, special interest group or whatever challenging regulations that they do not like, leading eventually to judicial...

A woman cuts a steel beam with an oxyacetylene torch. About 2,200 women worked at the Bethlehem Steel plant during World War II. (Photo courtesy National Canal Museum Archives)

Your View: Honor the efforts of women, Black Americans during World War II

May 19, 2024 at 7:30 a.m.

Opinion: Where would we have been if women and Black men had not entered the workforce in WWII? Did their efforts and this experience teach us anything?

A biker on the Lehigh Canal Towpath in Bethlehem notices geese on trail. (Kristen Harrison / The Morning Call)

Your View: A distance walker and a homeless man offer important life lessons on Lehigh Canal towpath

December 17, 2023 at 7:30 a.m.

Opinion: I learned something very profound from her that day: Once one begins to hate, it is difficult to limit that hate to just one thing.

Liliana Scholz, 12, of Emmaus, tests her skills on the bike course.Tracy Fox, Community Traffic Safety Project Coordinator for the Highway Safety Network, presented a workshop on bicycle safety to children with Bill McQuilken, Lehigh Valley Hospital Network Trauma Prevention Coordinator Cedar Crest, Thursday at the Emmaus Library.

Your View: Lessons from 45 years of running and biking on Lehigh Valley roads

April 14, 2023 at 7:30 a.m.

I have been an all-year-long-outdoor exerciser for the past 45 years here in the Lehigh Valley. I have seen many crazy things while doing so both by drivers and exercisers.

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