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What other newspapers are saying: This holiday season, support your hometown businesses

Tens of millions of Americans will do most, if not all, their holiday season shopping with giant online retail operations this year. They will argue that it is more convenient or safer for them to do so rather than patronize local brick-and-mortar stores. Now, Fort Dodge will soon become home to one of Amazon’s last-mile delivery stations. The massive building is being constructed now. This is great news for the future of the community, but it is no reason to give up on the existing local retailers. Local retailers, from mom-and-pop specialty shops to the big-box stores, rely on ...

Budget’s size unmoored from reality

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 ...

Stories of hope, service important

“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 ...

What other newspapers are saying: Provision would be a fleecing

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 approved earlier this month, is so patently offensive that even the deeply divided House has voted unanimously to repeal it. The Senate has, predictably enough, dragged its feet on taking up that repeal. Upon returning to Washington on Monday, senators should all feel the wrath of their constituents ...

Skate park’s expansion plans welcome news

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 ...

Road salt should not be this complicated

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 “out there” involving road salt, but state lawmakers have found a way to make it more difficult than it ought to be. Some state lawmakers — and presumably some non-elected officials — believe that road salt’s use ought to be curbed in order to reduce environmental damage stemming from ...