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What other newspapers are saying: America’s history mustn’t be whitewashed

It’s not easy, but please look at the photograph accompanying this editorial. It shows a formerly enslaved man in Louisiana displaying whipping scars on his back during the Civil War. Made in May 1863 and widely published two months later, it presented gruesome evidence of slavery’s inhumanity for countless Americans who didn’t necessarily comprehend it before. It has been credited with helping coalesce support for the defeat of the Confederacy and ultimately ending slavery. More than 160 years later, the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see it. Bowing to President ...

State’s mismanagement worrisome for business climate

Since June 30, the Sun-Gazette has featured at least 40 articles about businesses in our local communities. From mixed martial arts studios to furniture production, from convenience stores to photography studios, from bakeries to fishing-lure craftsmanship, from car dealerships to coffee ...

Children have right of way — not motorists

Right-thinking people of Pennsylvania have to be wondering whether the study associated with obtaining a driver’s license in this state has begun being regarded as something that doesn’t really matter — that the information presented is part of a lame exercise worthy of being forgotten quickly. Does Pennsylvania really have so many drivers who don’t know what blinking red lights on a school bus mean? Then there’s the obvious follow-up question: Does Pennsylvania really have so many drivers ignorant of the potential costs associated with the illegal practice — in human life ...

What other newspapers are saying: Constitution should be celebrated

Some 238 years ago, a contingent representing the states of the newly independent United States of America gathered in Philadelphia. There to reform the Articles of Confederation, they came up with this familiar grouping of words, “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” That carefully worded ...

How we use our tools reflects who we are

We found an interaction on social media last week worth noting. As the Sun-Gazette reported in Tuesday’s edition — and also shared on social media platforms — firefighters rescued a woman from a housefire on Race Street in the early hours of Monday. When the Sun-Gazette shared the ...

Like clockwork, efforts to weaken public notice requirements appear before the state’s legislature routinely. The proposed alternatives often are flawed and often would make a system that has worked for generations weaker, not stronger. Requiring boards and councils that need to be ...