There’s a new sheriff in town. Judge Eric Linhardt administered the oath of office to newly-elected Lycoming County Sheriff Eric Spiegel recently. Spiegel chose to run for the county position when former Sheriff Mark Lusk chose to retire. Spiegel said, as the Sun-Gazette reported in ...
How do you do regime change without changing the regime? That is the conundrum facing President Trump following his announcement that the United States would run the government of Venezuela “until such time as a proper transition can take place” — date TBD. Coming from a president who has mocked American military occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan, Trump’s declaration was almost as surprising as the lightening-strike operation itself, which led to the arrest of Venezuela’s autocratic president, Nicholas Maduro, on drug trafficking charges. Set aside for a moment very ...
The Sun-Gazette recently wrapped up its yearly series of “person of the year” finalists and, as is the case every year, we were thrilled to share the stories of a number of people making a difference in the communities in our region. That sense of community service was once again the ...
There is something clarifying about opening a fresh calendar. The pages are clean, the boxes empty, the year ahead undefined. It invites planning even as experience reminds us that no year ever unfolds exactly as written. This will be another year when Pennsylvania finds itself under a ...
Did economists underestimate the damage of the Biden regulatory barrage? One reason the U.S. economy is outperforming expectations may be that the Trump Administration’s deregulation is offsetting tariff harm. Consider how it has uncorked broadband investment and saved taxpayers billions by slashing the Biden team’s red tape. Congress appropriated $42 billion in the 2021 infrastructure bill for states to expand broadband to “unserved” and rural communities. The spending was unnecessary since satellite services like SpaceX’s Starlink and 5G fixed wireless services were rapidly ...
The Sun-Gazette has existed, in one form or another, for nearly 225 years. It should be no surprise that journalism and the public’s expectations for newspapers and other media have changed in those years. At one time, 200 to 150 years ago, newspapers generally were aligned with political machines. Some newspapers promoted the interests of a politician and the bureaucracies and factions they built, some promoted the interests of parties. You can still see remnants of this in the names of some newspapers — the Republican-Herald in Pottsville and the Tribune-Democrat in Johnstown, ...
