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The impact fee works

Letters

We’ve all heard the benefits of Pennsylvania’s prolific natural gas reserves. It’s an economic driver – supporting thousands of direct and indirect jobs in the state, while also providing a cleaner, more affordable and reliable energy source for our residents. But did you know that it’s also helping to provide affordable housing throughout the Commonwealth? Revenue from Pennsylvania’s unique natural gas impact fee (which is basically a tax) helps to fund the Pennsylvania Housing Affordability and Rehabilitation Enhancement (PHARE) Fund. This statewide program provides ...

City’s lack of cost estimates unacceptable

Editorials

Williamsport’s government, as the Sun-Gazette reported in its Feb. 17 edition, has heard a recommendation for its condemned City Hall on West Fourth Street. As we have expressed many times over the past four and a half years, we remain concerned. We have not seen either the leadership or ...

What bad news?

Letters

Representative Glenn “GT” Thompson says his weekly newsletter highlights “The Good, The Bad, and The Local.” In fact, what he actually provides is a highly selective version of reality. This week, his only “bad” news was reporting nearly two million Ukraine war casualties, noting Russia is “hardly winning” and declining. That is tragic—but why frame it this way? Is he suggesting reduced U.S. support for Ukraine? What is far more troubling is what he omitted. • Serious domestic crises, such as aggressive ICE actions in Minneapolis, which caused two deaths and ...

What other newspapers are saying: Survivors deserve full transparency

Editorials

“The more Epstein documents get released, the more we see how he had so many powerful friends, and that’s ultimately what helped him,” commented the US lawyer Lisa Bloom in an interview with the Guardian this week. As Ms Bloom, who represents 11 of Jeffrey Epstein’s dogged and brave victims, drily notes: “That’s not the way the justice system is supposed to work.” From the outset, the Epstein affair has offered a textbook example of the ability of the influential and well-connected to avoid scrutiny and intimidate those who would exert it. A ruthless pursuit of ...

The humanity of all of us

Letters

The Letter to the Editor titled “The finger of God”, which appeared in the January 12 edition of this paper, needs to be challenged for its many distortions and false facts. First, the author claims that this is a Christian Nation! If that were true, we would not be the poorest example of caring for our citizens in the developed world. We have one of the highest rates of childhood poverty, hunger, medical care costs, incarceration of citizens, violence, guns per capita, with a system that, more and more, skews towards the ‘haves’ to the detriment of the ‘have-nots’. Add to ...

Faith shines at 2026 Grammy Awards

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After the Grammy Awards aired live from Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles before 12,000 attendees and millions of viewers worldwide, the one speech that has resonated most centered on faith and redemption, delivered by a man named Jason DeFord, better known as Jelly Roll. As DeFord stepped up to accept his Best Contemporary Country Album award, he spoke through emotion about the long road that carried him from the criminal justice system to the very stage where he now stood. And in a moment when the spotlight could have been used to lecture half the country for thinking differently, he ...