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Remember a hero

There is an adage, popularized by children’s TV show host Fred Rogers: “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ ” When a would-be assassin attempted to take the life of former president and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump a week ago in Butler Township, the community in western Pennsylvania tragically lost the life of one such helper. “Corey Comperatore’s quick decision to use his body as a shield against the bullets flying toward his wife and ...

What other newspapers are saying: Voters need to learn about Project 2025

The necessary if alarming national debate over President Joe Biden’s cognitive fitness shouldn’t obscure the reason the stakes in that debate are so high: Former President Donald Trump has been fundamentally, dangerously unfit for office since before he took the oath the first time, in ways far worse than the ravages of age that are central to Biden’s situation. That’s why it’s so urgent that Democrats field a candidate strong enough to prevent Trump’s return. A second Trump term would almost certainly be even more disruptive to the norms of democracy than his first term ...

Carbon capture bill a step in right direction

State Sen. Gene Yaw’s legislation for state oversight of “carbon capture” technology is an important step in the right direction. As Yaw said, according to a report in Monday’s edition of the Sun-Gazette, “it’s a pragmatic solution to a problem we all want to solve — reducing ...

Cuts to backlog a good first step — but more needs done

We are glad the state Department of Environmental Protection has significantly cut its backlog of applicants awaiting permits. We also believe more needs to be done. As The Center Square’s Anthony Hennen reported in Thursday’s edition of the Sun-Gazette, from December of 2023 to the ...

What other newspapers are saying: The 2025 ‘tax armageddon’ is coming

That headline isn’t our phrase. It comes from Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, who like other Senate Democrats has been laying out in public the party’s tax strategy for the next Congress. Democrats are saying out loud that they plan to use the scheduled expiration of the 2017 tax cuts at the end of 2025 to insist on the largest tax increase in history. “The main goal here is this can’t just be a debate about the 2017 tax cuts,” Mr. Warner told Bloomberg. “This is going to be Tax Armageddon.” Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, who runs the Finance Committee, on Thursday revived his pitch ...

Allegations against railroad troubling

The National Transportation Safety Board’s allegation that Norfolk Southern repeatedly tried to interfere with the investigation of the Feb. 3, 2023, Norfolk derailment on the outskirts of East Palestine, Ohio, near Ohio’s border with Pennsylvania, is the latest development in the rail ...