What other newspapers are saying: Nuclear innovation in the age of AI

February 24, 2026

As America’s energy demands grow exponentially, the country won’t be able to keep up without more nuclear power. For decades, the climate-friendly industry has been held back by overly burdensome regulations, but that’s beginning to change. In the 1960s, plants took about four years to build, and they cost, in today’s dollars, about $1,500 per kilowatt of electricity generated. Now the idea of building a reactor in less than a decade is unheard of, and the cost of construction is six times greater. The Energy Department took steps this month to exempt certain advanced ...

Higher education deserves real conversation

February 23, 2026

Sian Leah Beilock, president of Dartmouth College, a private Ivy League research university located in Hanover, N.H., presented a bold assessment of higher education in this country in an opinion article she wrote for the Jan. 26 edition of the Wall Street Journal. No doubt the bold ...

Volunteer fire companies need and deserve our support

February 21, 2026

As reported in the Tuesday and Wednesday editions of the Sun-Gazette, homes in Gamble Township, the Newberry neighborhood of Williamsport and Montgomery all were lost to fires in the earliest part of the week. First, we hope the families affected by these fires recover. Second, we hope communities throughout our region and state, after these fires and after any fire, can reflect on the important role volunteer fire companies fill in keeping our communities safe. As the Sun-Gazette has documented over years, volunteer fire companies often struggle to find men and women willing to serve ...

What other newspapers are saying: Punishment must always fit crime

February 20, 2026

Public corruption should always trigger outrage, regardless of the offender. When people entrusted with public dollars abuse that trust, the damage goes far beyond the financial hit. It erodes confidence in institutions that rely on credibility to function. That is why the stark contrast between two recent public corruption cases in our region is impossible to ignore — and deeply concerning. In one case, a former Marshall County assessor, an elected official, was sentenced to two to 15 years in state prison for embezzlement. That sentence properly reflects the seriousness of the ...

Fiscal recklessness will have consequences

February 19, 2026

An analysis by Truth in Accounting on which The Center Square reported in the Feb. 10 edition of the Sun-Gazette finds that Philadelphia will overspend in the 2025/26 budget year by about $17,000 per taxpayer. As we note that this sort of budgeting is unsustainable, we do not want to single out Pennsylvania’s largest city. The budget proposal by Gov. Josh Shapiro, as we’ve repeatedly criticized in editorials the past two weeks, uses assumptions about future laws and the state’s “rainy day fund” to ramp up government spending — despite our Legislature’s clear and ...

City’s lack of cost estimates unacceptable

February 18, 2026

Williamsport’s government, as the Sun-Gazette reported in its Feb. 17 edition, has heard a recommendation for its condemned City Hall on West Fourth Street. As we have expressed many times over the past four and a half years, we remain concerned. We have not seen either the leadership or ...