We congratulate St. John’s School of the Arts on its 30-year anniversary — and are grateful for the school and all the programs in our region that help introduce youngsters and the public to the value of the arts. The anniversary celebration, held recently, was featured in Thursday’s ...
In news from around the nation, the Associated Press and Williamsport Sun-Gazette reported last weekend on bipartisan efforts in Tennessee to rename Nashville’s international airport after musician Dolly Parton. While we can understand and appreciate skepticism about naming airports or ...
President Donald Trump’s preferred monetary policy is simple. Is the economy sluggish? Cut interest rates. Is it heating up? Also cut interest rates. Now there’s a new addendum: If his handpicked Federal Reserve chair won’t play ball, hold the economy hostage. At least, that’s what Trump threatened on Friday on Truth Social. He wrote that if the Fed doesn’t “get smart” and lower rates, he will halt trade entirely with any country that maintains a trade deficit with the United States. That would include China, Mexico, Canada, Vietnam, South Korea and dozens of others — ...
While we addressed this solemn occasion in Friday’s and Saturday’s editorials, we also want to take a moment and acknowledge the hard work of volunteers throughout our region every year to ensure this important moment does not go unheeded. Planning the 9/11 Memorial Ride is work that ...
We do not expect the furor about data centers to die down. What we can say about proposals to build data centers must be similar, as a matter of principle, to what we say about any development: If or when it is done, there are right ways to do it, transparent ways that address the concerns ...
The price of dissenting from orthodoxy in Washington these days is high—if you’re a Democrat. If you’re a Republican who supports higher taxes or Big Labor, you’re hailed as a free-thinker. But a Democrat who dissents on Israel becomes Public Enemy Number 2 after Donald Trump. That’s the treatment now descending on Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, as former aides and fellow Democrats feed stories intended to drive him from the Senate. Sources who decline to be identified say he neglects semiofficial duties such as constituent meetings, committee hearings and public funerals, ...
