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War isn’t the solution

Letters

Americans are facing many serious problems: • An affordability crisis: High prices for food, housing, and utilities • A health care crisis: Unaffordable insurance and rural hospital closures • A weakened safety net: Millions cut from SNAP and Medicaid • Rising inequality • Tariffs that function as taxes, paid by small businesses and consumers • Unreleased Epstein files and continued lack of accountability for child sex predators • Overly aggressive immigration enforcement that ensnares citizens and legal immigrants • Detention centers with dangerous ...

Keep politicians from meddling in FDA

Editorials

It was just one man’s opinion but it’s concerning nonetheless — for the long term as well as the short term. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, an interview about which the newspaper reported on Feb. 17, Dr. Richard Pazdur alleged that fast-track drug approvals had been politicized in a manner in which he never had experienced in his 26 years at the federal Food and Drug Administration. Pazdur was a top federal drug regulator at the time of his abrupt departure from the FDA in December. Pazdur, who is an oncologist, had “scrutinized applications for cancer ...

Surrender in Alaska

Letters

When Trump met with Putin last year in Alaska, his intent was to make his Russian counterpart “see the light” regarding the war in Ukraine. Instead, I believe it was Putin that showed him the darkness--that autocracy works, and might makes right. Cooperation is not the endpoint of foreign policy; it is subjugation, and that control of oil is the key. This is not strength but surrender with a handshake. In the end, character matters. Perhaps it is the most important thing. SAM STEA Cogan Station Submitted by Virtual Newsroom

A nation of laws

Letters

One benefit of the aging process is the appreciation of homespun wisdom that is packaged and reflected in phrases like, “Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.” Unfortunately, deception has long been the MO of the sitting, second term president. Being honest or displaying integrity doesn’t motivate him, but, likewise, perhaps now, over a decade after his launch into the political arena on the golden escalator at Trump Tower on June 16, 2015, is the nation finally coming to understand the unanticipated and devastating costs of riding the Trump ...

Munich and its memory of horrors

Other Commentaries

I once interviewed a young German national who applied for a job. I wanted to see how he would handle a difficult question. I pointed out to him that I was Jewish and that most of my mother’s family had perished in the Holocaust. He was German, not yet a U.S. national, and I wondered what his reaction would be. His response was measured and perfect for the occasion. He explained to me that as a German who went to school, until college, in Germany, he knew more about the Holocaust than any American young person he had met. He indicated that he had been taken to concentration camps while ...

Warmer weather a sign of blessings to come

Editorials

The front page and outdoors section of Tuesday’s Williamsport Sun-Gazette shared images of the state Fishing and Boating Commission and volunteers stocking the streams with trout. It’s yet another indicator that spring and warmer weather are arriving — and a source of excitement for many looking forward to what that warmer weather brings. Fishing. Hiking. Canoeing and kayaking. Chances to enjoy the great outdoors. As we have editorialized before, our region is blessed with its forests, rivers and streams and hills. We hope families in every community in Lycoming County and ...