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Thank you

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As the year comes to an end, Special Olympics Pennsylvania, Susquehanna Valley Region and Team Lycoming wanted to say Thank You One and All for your outstanding support to the athletes of Lycoming County. Whether you served as a coach, was a volunteer, participated in the First Annual Polar Plunge, the Annual Frostbite Run or Penguin Walk, ran in the Torch Run, helped sponsor one of the other fundraising events or just showed up and cheered for the athletes, you helped make this year one of the most successful ever. Lycoming County Special Olympics serves over 120 athletes and Unified ...

Cameras belong in courtrooms

Editorials

Those who follow news reports of criminal cases have likely seen photographs and/or video captured during out-of-state court proceedings and wondered why they don’t see similar scenes from inside Pennsylvania’s courtrooms. The short answer is: Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule ...

The state of the Fourth Estate

Letters

In the old days, men had the rack. Now they have the Press. That is an improvement, certainly, but still incorrect and demoralizing. Somebody - was it Burke?- called journalism the fourth estate. That was true at the time, no doubt. But at the present moment, it is the only estate. It has eaten up the other three. The Lords Temporal say nothing, the Lords Spiritual have nothing to say, and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it. We are dominated by Journalism,” Oscar Wilde That bit of sarcasm applies to today’s media. Every day, we are bombarded with what ...

State’s special needs students need school choice

Other Commentaries

Shannon Mitchell will never forget the first words from her nonverbal eight-year-old daughter, Brianna. “Hi, mama,” Briana said after getting off the bus on her first day at her new school. “I love you.” Before this precious moment, Brianna languished at her Philadelphia district school for several years. Brianna — who was diagnosed with autism when she was 2 years old — needed extra support and resources, such as speech therapy. But her school couldn’t provide these much-needed services. Instead, her teacher often resorted to sending her to the back of the classroom to ...

The quiet engine behind youth’s malaise

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For years, pointing out the obvious was considered impolite: America’s biggest, most distortionary transfer of wealth does not flow from elites to the working class. Nor does it show up as corporate welfare. It flows from the relatively young and poor to the relatively old and wealthy. It’s the defining injustice of our fiscal regime, the largest driver of our government debt and the quiet engine behind the malaise of Millennials and Gen Z. More than a decade ago, Nick Gillespie and I wrote a piece in Reason arguing that Social Security and Medicare had together become the great ...

What other newspapers are saying: Trade policy incoherent

Editorials

Consider two statements of fact. First, the United States has a lead on artificial intelligence, but allowing the sale of advanced semiconductors could allow China, its biggest adversary, to catch up. Second, the U.S. has imported more goods than it has exported every year since 1976. According to President Donald Trump, one of these items is no big deal and the other constitutes “ an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and economy of the United States.” If English words meant what the dictionary says they mean, that would be Item No. 1. But this is politics, ...