People unfamiliar with Pennsylvania’s mid-20th century highways probably cannot grasp the picture fully of how major roadway projects over the subsequent decades were the springboard for great economic progress. For one corner of our state close to our region, Interstate 99 has been the ...

We applaud U.S. Rep. Dan Meuser’s efforts to adjust the perimeters for Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. coverage of Americans’ bank deposits. Regardless of the sources and contributing factors — and we suspect both the far left’s scapegoating of “greedy corporations” and the far ...

Passing all but unnoticed in recent days were reports of a measles outbreak in the Lower Peninsula. News outlets in and around Washtenaw County say three linked cases have been reported since March 12, all in that county. This isn’t good, from at least two vantage points: Number one, of ...

Today concludes a series of special sections the Williamsport Sun-Gazette has been publishing — our Then & Now sections. We always enjoy the opportunities to share the rich history of our region with the public. We continue to believe that a better understanding of “then” can help ...

Advocates for gun control have pushed more than a dozen separate bills through Virginia’s state legislature in less than two months. We must question if these proposals are truly being carefully deliberated upon. Some of these changes, such as bans on long-legal types of firearms, ...

Twenty years ago, no one really knew where social media was going to go. Facebook had just dropped “The” from its name. It was not yet ubiquitous. It was only beginning to move beyond college campuses and into broader public use. By 2006, it opened the doors wide. There were just two ...