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Lunar mission teaches all to work hard, work together

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The Artemis II astronauts have returned, with Americans closely watching the news feeling pride, awe and a sense of unity that too often has been missing from our national conversations. “It is a true gift,” Commander Reid Wiseman told the Associated Press at one point during the mission. The work of space exploration has spanned decades and generations. Even at its inception, people questioned the necessity of lunar missions and space exploration. Beyond the aforementioned sense of awe, our nation’s research under NASA’s auspices have yielded stunning advances in ...

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When Gov. Josh Shapiro announced Pennsylvania would join a multistate lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency, he no doubt expected applause. What he should expect instead are questions. For starters, how does suing the federal government actually lower electricity bills for Pennsylvanians? The answer, of course, is that it doesn’t. Oil gains 3% as fragile ceasefire, Hormuz keep supply risks elevated And the governor’s timing couldn’t be worse or more tone deaf. While Pennsylvania families are struggling under the weight of higher energy costs, the governor’s ...

Celebrate America

Letters

Thank you, Sun-Gazette, for planning a series of articles about our wonderful country’s history. I have been enjoying reading the many special publications that are appearing in newspapers and magazines to celebrate America 250. May I point out two musical tributes that will be happening before all those on July 4: On the 251st Anniversary of Paul Revere’s Ride, local members of the American Guild of Organists will present a program of American music. It will include patriotic and folk songs, and a tone poem, The Battle of Trenton, which was written by a composer living during ...

What other newspapers are saying: White House muddying role of Postal Service

Editorials

Can the President order the U.S. Postal Service not to deliver mail he doesn’t like? Add this to the list of, er, innovative questions that President Trump is posing to the courts. On Tuesday he signed an executive action to create a federal list of people pre-approved to vote by mail, while telling the USPS to refuse to deliver ballots from anybody who isn’t on it. Democrats have already filed lawsuits, saying Mr. Trump’s plan tramples on the authority over elections that the Constitution gives to the 50 states. The USPS is an independent agency, and the Postmaster General is ...

Turning down grants

Letters

Williamsport got it wrong. While ARLE grant projects can be worthwhile, no municipality should accept the money, since it came from red-light cameras(which should be banned in PA.) If we had best-practice engineering and enforcement, then practically nobody would ever “run” a light. Most people do not “run” a light on purpose. Taking money from these grants sends the message that all this is OK. Please note that the Philly Inquirer ran a story in 2017 saying that some of these cams had accuracy rates of 3%. It was reported multiple times that crashes went UP in Philly at ...

Have we lost our minds?

Letters

On April 7 at 8 p.m., the President of the United States wrote this on his social media page: I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.” Pause for a moment and let this sink in: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to exist again. Do we truly understand the gravity of that? Do we grasp what is being done in our name? Or do we simply drift on to the next medication commercial after the news report, barely noticing what we just heard? This threat would mean the murder of 24 million Iranians who are babies, toddlers, kids in grade school, or teens in middle ...