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Thank you

Letters

As a former resident of Lycoming County, I wanted to write a note thanking the Muncy Township supervisors for the entertainment they provide with their lame excuse of leadership and the joke that their meetings have become. Also thank you to the Sun-Gazette for recording the meetings so that people like myself who now live out of the state can enjoy watching unqualified individuals attempt to play politics and be grateful we don’t live in the area anymore. Its fantastic entertainment, who needs daytime soap operas when you have this! VINCENT MICHAEL Mooresville Submitted ...

Veterans Memorial Park deserves support

Editorials

We are glad our city government and Pennsylvania College of Technology reached an agreement for the college to provide work on the Veterans Memorial Park on Wahoo Drive. We appreciate the students’ hard work on maintaining the park, the school’s leadership in facilitating the project and ...

No fun in the Sun

Letters

My neighbors and I are done with your Republican paper. Its cartoons and editorials are always attacking the other side. There’s no fun in the Sun. We choose The Express. It’s a homespun paper with simple issues that people want to read. One thing you need is a page that lists all the scams in the area. They come to our Seniors every day from their computers, mail, and phone and they don’t know where to turn for help. The Sun could Alert the public in every issue, but you won’t, because you don’t work for the people. They would know it was fake if you were helpful. So, keep ...

What other newspapers are saying: Surveillance a balancing act

Editorials

America’s spy programs are complex, but the Fourth Amendment is simple. It says the government cannot collect and search through the private communications of United States citizens without a warrant. Congress faces a protracted deadlock on renewing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and the Fourth Amendment points to a straightforward compromise. That is: Keep up overseas surveillance to protect U.S. national security, but require a warrant whenever the resulting database is used to look through a specific American’s communications. The distinction ...

Disrespect

Letters

Williamsport mayor Slaughter has arrogantly disrespected every single veteran from the American Revolution to the present by canceling the 4th of July celebration on this, our 250th birthday. His weak excuse of insufficient police manpower doesn’t hold water. The festival has always been more than adequately protected by our city police with additional support from the county sheriff’s department, the county detectives and the state police. Since the mayor hasn’t had the courtesy to explain the situation, I’m surmising that since he’s a Democrat, he’s infected with ...

Pittsburgh is just built different

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PITTSBURGH -- Art Rooney II was standing on the pitch of the brand-new U.S. Steel Community football field, located on the sprawling 178 acres where the men and women who lived in the slopes overlooking Hazelwood Works labored in the mill. It doesn’t seem that long ago when those massive steel structures were churning out steel for over 100 years, playing a significant role in building this country. Off in the distance stands the U.S. Steel Tower, the tallest building in Appalachia. Closer to the field are the skeletal remains, now repurposed to house Carnegie Mellon University and ...