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Dementia training could help first responders

Editorials

Legislation being drafted to require EMS personnel to undergo training to help them better interact with those living with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias makes sense, at first blush. Sen. Lynda Culver and House members Maureen Madden and Kyle Mullins are looking for Pennsylvania to join Virginia by requiring training to help EMS providers recognize cognitive impairment and communicate effectively during emergencies. While fire departments can take the training on their own under current law,, Culver, Madden and Mullins want to make the voluntary training a ...

Unions spending your tax dollars to pick your politicians

Other Commentaries

What if I told you that your tax dollars fund political campaigns that you probably didn’t vote for? Unwittingly, taxpayers have been subsidizing the partisan politicking of a significantly strong lobbying force in Pennsylvania politics: unions. New analysis shows that 2025 — which was supposed to be a quiet off-year election year — proved to be a boon for union political spending in Pennsylvania. Political action committees (PACs) operated by trade unions and government unions combined to spend $22.4 million on monetary and in-kind political activity in 2025. Obviously, ...

Government blocks grocery stores

Other Commentaries

Across the country, politicians are sounding the alarm about rising food prices and lack of access to grocery stores. Their solution? Government-run supermarkets. There’s just one problem: in many cases, the same policymakers proposing these taxpayer-funded stores are also making it harder for private grocers to open in the first place. That contradiction isn’t just ironic, it’s expensive. Consider what’s happening in New York City. Officials are advancing plans for publicly owned grocery stores, pitched as a way to bring down prices and improve access. But early estimates ...

Rights of all help keep government accountable

Editorials

We are not special. A recent exchange at the Muncy Township supervisors’ meeting had a member of our staff defending the First Amendment and the right of Americans to have independent reporting on the conduct of their government — local, state and municipal. One of the aspects of ...

What other newspapers are saying: Nursing home residents at homeless shelters reflect housing crisis

Editorials

Public officials well aware of Ohio’s problems with a shortage of accessible, affordable housing might not be aware of a growing problem related to that challenge. Nursing homes are sending patients to homeless shelters at a growing rate. A Signal Ohio report earlier this month looked at nursing homes transferring “older, poorer and medically fragile” patients to homeless shelters. In fact, seven nursing home facilities in Ohio have been faulted in the past few years for efforts to dump patients into homeless shelters. Eastland Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Columbus ...

Selective outrage

Letters

If a Democratic president had done even a fraction of what Donald Trump has done, Republicans would be screaming for impeachment hearings. Imagine the reaction from Republicans if Barack Obama or Joe Biden had run for office with 34 felony convictions and a trail of bankruptcies. Or if either tried to overturn a presidential election and incited a mob to storm the U.S. Capitol. What if a Democratic president talked about suspending constitutional rights, deployed federal forces into states over governors’ objections, or bypassed Congress’s constitutional authority over war powers ...