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Lies go on and on

Letters

After hearing Trump lie about rigged elections and vandals in the Reflection pool, I thought about one of his recent gems when he said, “China doesn’t even use wind turbines. They make them and send them all over the world making a ton of money. But they do not even use them.” So I looked it up and it said that China has more wind turbines than any other country on earth and that last year they added more than the other top four countries in the world. An elderly woman on WNEP-16 summed it up perfectly. She said Trump is either sleeping or lying. I think as long as THE LYIN’ ...

What other newspapers are saying: World must open eyes to horrors in Sudan

Editorials

Five months after the United Nations reported acts of genocide in Sudan, another human rights catastrophe may be imminent. The Rapid Support Forces, a rebel group that controls parts of the country and has a history of committing atrocities, has gathered outside El Obeid, a strategically important city, and nearly encircled it. About 600,000 people are facing severe shortages of food, water and medicine, and the R.S.F. has already killed some civilians through drone attacks. “The signs from El Obeid are clear and unmistakable: Another human rights catastrophe is unfolding in ...

Scaling back of monuments a necessary balance

Editorials

The Trump Administration has rolled back the size of two national monuments in Utah, Bear’s Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. As initially delegated as monuments by the Obama Administration, the landmarks covered an area nearly the size of Connecticut. The reduction in the monuments’ ...

City’s leaders still neglecting needed numbers

Editorials

In December of 2025, Williamsport City Council approved a budget for 2026. Even with a tax increase on homeowners, that budget relied in part on the assumption that the condemned building at 245 W. Fourth St. would be sold. Now, nearly 30 weeks later, the matter of even accepting bids for ...

Birthright citizenship not just for immigrants

Other Commentaries

Now that we’ve completed our celebration of America’s 250th birthday, it’s time to prepare for the 300th -- the tricentennial. I will not live to see it, but I hope the nation will. At least, I hope a certain kind of America will celebrate its 300th year -- one that has regained its moral equilibrium and turned its back resoundingly on illiberalism in all its ugly forms. If the United States does not reverse its current retreat from the principles and traditions that ennobled it, if it becomes the kind of predatory, grubby and aggressive nation that Donald Trump champions, or if ...

Who remembers Oliver Anthony?

Other Commentaries

I still listen to Oliver Anthony. He was the rednecky guy who played guitar outdoors with bugs and dogs. His songs are mournful and angry, lamenting his struggles with addiction, his poverty and the changes in America. In his song “Rich Men North of Richmond,” welfare queens on one side and a Washington elite on the other were wasting his life. The song became what Fox News called “The Conservative National Anthem.” Biden was president then. They even played of bit of it at the first Republican debates in August of 2023. The politicians appeared a bit mystified when asked to ...