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Lycoming County 'safe' designation more than label

February 9, 2010

In the past 15 years, the World Health Organization has designated only 58 places worldwide as “Safe Communities.” Lycoming County recently gained that elite designation. Being a Safe Community is much more than an empty designation. In the case of Lycoming County, some of the real-life efforts that led to the designation included: Workplace safety efforts by Lycoming Engines; sustaining partnerships between Susquehanna Health sports medicine and a senior center at the YMCA; the county’s flood warning system; Little League Baseball’s use and monitoring of worldwide injury data, and South Williamsport Police Department’s Project Lifesafer program for finding missing persons. In other words, the county gained the “Safe” designation based on real operations that make it safer than most communities every day. Countless other coordinated community efforts spearheaded by the Lycoming County Health Improvement Coalition gained the county the designation.

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Reid's strange way of tackling deficit spending

February 8, 2010

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has a strange way of attacking deficit spending. He proposed it a few days ago — as an amendment to a bill that would increase the federal government debt limit by $1.9 trillion.

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Local Haiti drives underscore generosity

February 7, 2010

Even in the world-at-our-fingertips lifestyle that most of us have available to us today, most residents of our region have only a passing knowledge of Haiti, its place in the world and its people.

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Local Haiti drives underscore generosity

February 7, 2010

Even in the world-at-our-fingertips lifestyle that most of us have available to us today, most residents of our region have only a passing knowledge of Haiti, its place in the world and its people.

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Terrorist rights get nod over Americans' safety

February 6, 2010

Would-be terrorist bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was treated with kid gloves after his plot to down an airliner over Detroit went awry on Christmas Day.

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Campaign giving sacred cows

February 6, 2010

President Obama and members of Congress are furious about a Supreme Court ruling that makes it easier for individuals, companies, organizations and labor unions to support political candidates.

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