We hope readers enjoyed our Outdoors section’s recent article on the common snapping turtle — we found it a reminder of how varied and interesting the wildlife of our beautiful state can be. From whitetail deer to fishers to porcupines and opossum, from eagles and grouse to, yes, the ...
There is a move in the state Legislature to give prosecutors more time to prosecute those responsible for drug deals that result in death. Current state law includes a two-year statute of limitations, a number prosecutors say isn’t long enough to bring prosecutions against those who sell ...
Speaker Mike Johnson, Majority Leader Steve Scalise and 50 other House Republicans just signed a letter asking President Donald Trump to allow the ongoing waiver of the Jones Act, a protectionist shipping law, to expire as scheduled on Aug. 16. They are effectively calling for higher energy prices. The Jones Act, passed in 1920, requires that ships transporting goods between U.S. ports be U.S.-built, U.S.-flagged, U.S.-owned and U.S.-crewed. Given that the modern maritime industry is highly globalized, few ships meet those conditions, and the ones that do are very expensive. The law ...
A man from the Jersey Shore area recently was honored for, as U.S. Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Howard, put it, his part in the “legacy of those who saved the world and a representation of the best and the brightest that our nation offers.” As reported in Tuesday’s edition of the Williamsport Sun-Gazette, Thompson recently presented the family of the late Browning with nine medals — among them a bronze star — he earned during his service during the Second World War. “As we celebrate America’s 250, what a privilege to honor a member from the greatest generation that ...
For the fifth year in a row, Pennsylvania’s leadership has missed the state Constitution’s deadline for passage of an annual budget. Many at the moment are singling out the state Senate for this dereliction — and we will agree state senators should still be in Harrisburg, working on resolving outstanding issues and ready to vote. But the Senate was in session for much of the past year — and during that time, Gov. Josh Shapiro and the Democratic majority in the state House simply were unrealistic about how much money the state can spend. The initial proposal by Shapiro, as ...
On this Fourth of July, the United States turns 250. A quarter of a millennium is long enough to make a nation feel permanent, as though it had always been here and always will be. But the founders who signed their names to the Declaration of Independence knew that they were making a wager, not a guarantee. They pledged their lives, fortunes and honor precisely because the outcome was in doubt. Two and a half centuries later, the wager is still being placed by every generation that inherits it. That is the truth worth celebrating this summer — America is still being made. None of ...
