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An economic fable

Letters

U.S. Rep. Dan Meuser’s recent column paints a dramatic story of economic collapse under President Biden and a sudden comeback under President Trump. But that story doesn’t match what people in our communities live every day, whether it’s “a waitress in Tamaqua, a doctor in Danville, a farmer in Lebanon, a senior in Williamsport, a small business owner in Bloomsburg, or a coal miner finishing a shift in Schuylkill County.” Those trying to keep up with grocery bills, rent, housing costs, or gas prices believe their own experience more than a politician’s abject sales ...

Protect Pennsylvania’s hunting economy

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For more than 50 years, the first Monday after Thanksgiving served as the traditional opening day of statewide firearms deer season, drawing families, friends and sportsmen from every corner of the state into our forests and towns. But that tradition was upended in 2019 when the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) moved the opener to the Saturday after Thanksgiving, a decision that has had unintended and harmful consequences for local economies. That’s why I’ve joined with Sen. Lisa Boscola to soon introduce legislation that would restore the traditional opening day and revitalize ...

Accountability

Letters

The Obama/Biden years did more harm to our country than we will ever know. Obama has been called the Great Divider. Biden has been called numerous names, too many to list, none presidential. I believe both are responsible for the mayhem in our country today due to the open border policies of the regime with Obama pulling the strings of socialism. Will they be held accountable? We have many rioters protesting against ICE agents’ removal of illegal immigrants that have killed many innocent Americans. The criminals did not come into our country legally so why should they be afforded ...

What other newspapers are saying: Focus on accountability

Editorials

The resignation of Harvard economics professor and former university president Larry Summers was only the latest repercussion from the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files — the millions of documents gathered by federal prosecutors that Congress ordered the Department of Justice to release to the public. There are no doubt more heads are about to roll: The disgraced financier burrowed his way deep into the worlds of academia, business, and government. The files show that even after he was convicted in 2008 in Florida of soliciting a minor and served a short prison sentence, he ...

Be careful what you vote for

Letters

Prayer should be implemented back into our schools. The Ten Commandments and our Constitution should be put in every school hallway. History must be mandatory — not the rewritten history but the original history that I was taught when I was in school. Ask the students today who Ponce de Leon, Vasco Da Gama or even Eli Whitney or Alexander Graham Bell are or what the Louisiana Purchase was. They need to be told that slavery wasn’t started here but it started in Biblical times and also done in Africa. Slavery is not right but it is still going on to this very day. A judge just told ...

Fear

Letters

When I was attending Lycoming College shortly after the end of the Vietnam war, Dr. Michael Roskin (the best lecturing professor ever!) taught a political science course there on why nations go to war. While examining the Vietnam War one day, the topic of the War Powers Act came up. Dr. Roskin stated he thought this topic was important enough to throw out his planned lesson for that day and proceeded to spell out for the class how liberal zeal to rein in the power of the president and prevent another Vietnam had actually strengthened that power and abilty of the office to do so. As a ...