We agree with one assessment of our state budget The Center Square reported on in Tuesday’s edition: The cost of the new budget is too high. That view, expressed by the Commonwealth Foundation and other conservative organizations and officials, is grounded in simple realities. Pennsylvania ...

“I think it’s important to understand people, to love them well. ... You have to truly understand them.” It is always a joy to bring the region stories like Stephanie Shover’s, who was profiled in Tuesday’s edition of the Sun-Gazette, where she shared the aforementioned ...

There is bipartisan fury in Congress today over stealth legislation offering million-dollar windfalls to a handful of senators whose office phone records were accessed as part of the federal investigation into the Jan. 6 melee. The idea, quietly slipped into the government reopening measure ...

Lifland Skatepark has been an asset for our community for more than a decade and we believe every resident of the city should celebrate plans for the park’s expansion — even residents who don’t enjoy skating themselves. As we’ve noted in past editorials, Williamsport and Lycoming ...

Pennsylvania residents who watched as the just-concluded 2025-26 state budget-preparation debacle played out might be thinking that the Legislature surely might now be able to find an issue that it can handle more quickly and more efficiently. But, in fact, will it? There’s an issue ...

Maybe the United Nations isn’t as useless as it so often shows. A little over a week ago the Security Council endorsed President Trump’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza, ratifying for the first time the requirements that Hamas disarm and Gaza be demilitarized. The resolution passed 13–0, ...