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What other newspapers are saying: Nursing home residents at homeless shelters reflect housing crisis

Public officials well aware of Ohio’s problems with a shortage of accessible, affordable housing might not be aware of a growing problem related to that challenge. Nursing homes are sending patients to homeless shelters at a growing rate. A Signal Ohio report earlier this month looked at nursing homes transferring “older, poorer and medically fragile” patients to homeless shelters. In fact, seven nursing home facilities in Ohio have been faulted in the past few years for efforts to dump patients into homeless shelters. Eastland Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Columbus ...

Rights of all help keep government accountable

We are not special. A recent exchange at the Muncy Township supervisors’ meeting had a member of our staff defending the First Amendment and the right of Americans to have independent reporting on the conduct of their government — local, state and municipal. One of the aspects of ...

STEP a blessing for 60 years

For 60 years, one organization has met the needs of struggling families. STEP, or Lycoming-Clinton County Commission for Community Action, provides Head Start to ensure children from low-income households are ready for school, social services for people with disabilities, job placement services, transportation for the elderly and many more. As Rachelle Abbott, president and CEO of STEP explained to the Sun-Gazette for an article in Thursday’s edition, the organization takes a “wrap-around” approach, or approach where the organization tries to align struggling families with a ...

Motorists — put the phone down

Imagine driving 55 miles per hour with your eyes closed for five seconds – the equivalent of the length of a football field. Sounds terrifying, doesn’t it? Now, imagine reading or sending a text message while behind the wheel. The five seconds spent looking at your cellphone and not ...

What other newspapers are saying: Keep pressure on Iran

President Trump all but declared a recent Friday as V-I Day, for Victory over Iran, but hold off on the parade. “IRAN HAS JUST ANNOUNCED THAT THE STRAIT OF IRAN IS FULLY OPEN,” he wrote Friday on Truth Social. That’s also what the April 8 U.S. cease-fire was supposed to allow. Re-opening the Strait is good news, if it happens this time, and financial markets behaved as if they think it will. Equities rose and the price of oil dropped sharply on the news, which gives the U.S. policy breathing room. Then again, calling Hormuz the “Strait of Iran” reflects Tehran’s view. ...

Working Americans pay their share of taxes

A claim that working Pennsylvanians need to “pay their fair share” all too often bubbles to the surfaces of some of our society’s debates on tax policy. The rhetoric that surrounds perennial pushes to eliminate or significantly reduce property tax burdens in Pennsylvania is one place this claim sometimes surfaces, municipal officials’ pursuit of greater latitude for cities and boroughs to assess heavier taxes on payroll is another. The reality is that working Pennsylvanians — and working Americans, particularly the middle class — pay thousands of dollars a year in ...