People recently gathered in Brandon Park for a National Day of Remembrance for families of homicide victims. We believe it is an important occasion and we hope the event was a step forward for managing the grief inflicted upon these families. We also believe the message or purpose of the ...
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Why should you care? Because had it not been for the early detection campaign’s inception 40 years ago, a loved one – your mother, sister, wife or maybe even you yourself – might not have been around to read this. Originally a weeklong push ...
Internet experts call it ransomware, a very particular type of virus that infects computers and restricts users’ access to their files or threatens the permanent destruction of their information unless a ransom — anywhere from hundreds to thousands of dollars — is paid. The virus typically announces themselves by popping a message up on screen — supposedly from the FBI or another federal agency — saying that because you violated federal law your computer will remain locked until you pay a fine; or, you get a pop-up message telling you your personal files have been encrypted ...
Pennsylvania’s state House rejected a bill last week allowing courts to invoke “extreme risk protection orders” on gun owners — orders that would allow authorities to require gun owners to surrender their firearms for the period the order is in effect. It was a close vote — 102 to 101 — but we believe that 102 legislators made the correct decision. If Pennsylvania is to pass some version of a so-called “red flag” law, we believe its proponents need to more adequately address skepticism that the process for invoking “extreme risk protection orders” affords the ...
Students in Eastern Lycoming County’s borough of Picture Rocks are learning about history. It is a timely lesson, as the community is celebrating the 150th anniversary of its charter. Students and community members, as reported in Monday’s edition of the Sun-Gazette, opened a time ...
When the founders of these United States sat down to craft a document that would be the foundation of the new nation’s government, they agreed to outline certain basic guarantees to its citizens. And right at the top of the Bill of Rights was the promise that the government would not prohibit certain activities they believed were the inviolable privileges any person should be permitted to pursue. Those activities include your right to speak your mind. To worship as your conscience dictates and to peacefully protest the actions of your government. And our right to call out public ...
