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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 ...

What other newspapers are saying: Uncommon sense from United Nations

Maybe the United Nations isn’t as useless as it so often shows. A little over a week ago the Security Council endorsed President Trump’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza, ratifying for the first time the requirements that Hamas disarm and Gaza be demilitarized. The resolution passed 13–0, with Russia and China abstaining. It’s a setback for the terrorists. Many had worried that the U.S. jaunt to the Security Council would come at the price of bending the peace plan’s terms for Hamas or adding anti-Israel terms. Would France’s Emmanuel Macron elbow his way into the deal’s ...

Holiday shopping season arrives

This past weekend brought Small Business Saturday and the start of 2025’s holiday shopping season. We understand the impulse to decry the consumerism of the season — to search for something more authentic or more meaningful. And we believe there certainly should be days and moments ahead ...

Lincoln understood value of gratitude

President Abraham Lincoln, 163 years ago and during a time of unimaginable division, proclaimed Thanksgiving to be a national holiday. His original proclamation explained the necessity of gratitude for our national character, at a time when Americans had great reason to forget the virtue’s ...