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What other newspapers are saying: State needs stability for disability care

In his second budget as Pennsylvania’s chief executive, Gov. Josh Shapiro has a chance not just to boost funding in the short term for Pennsylvania’s intellectual disabilities and autism (ID/A) community, but to establish long-term stability for these essential services. As the state’s rarely-met June 30 budget deadline approaches, and as the General Assembly already has an important bill before it, it’s time for Harrisburg to follow through on Mr. Shapiro’s promises. There’s hardly a better, more humane use for the state’s billions of dollars in reserve funds. Caring ...

County fairs an opportunity to learn

The Lycoming County Fair is back for 2024 — and we recommend everyone and anyone plans to visit. The fair, as always, will offer fun and food for families. More importantly, it will offer people from across Lycoming County and the surrounding communities a glimpse into consequential ...

Lycoming County Voter Services is warning the public that attempts to defraud county residents out of the type of information that can be used to commit identity theft are shifting to the upcoming election, as was reported in Friday’s edition of the Williamsport Sun-Gazette. We agree with ...

What other newspapers are saying: No hiding flaws of proposed mask ban

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposal for a new ban on face coverings raises irresolvable constitutional and enforcement concerns. When she took office during the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Kathy Hochul kept in place mandates that New Yorkers wear masks to help stop the spread of the virus. Last summer, meanwhile, the governor made one million masks available to protect residents from wildfire smoke. Now, the Democrat is proposing a new ban on masks. The whiplash-inducing change is necessary, Ms. Hochul claims, because criminals are hiding their identities as they commit their malfeasance, ...

Independence Day and today

As we continue to reflect on this most-recent Independence Day, America’s politicians on both sides of the political aisle ought to be thinking more about this country as a whole — what is best for this wonderful free land — than mostly about their party, their party’s agenda or the ...

Due process one of the principles we remember on July 4

Two-hundred and forty-eight years ago, the founding fathers, as we commemorated this past Thursday, met to outline their case for independence from Great Britain. It was an effort that culminated not only in America’s independence, but in its commitment to a Constitutional order — to a ...