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Words at difficult times inspired nation forward

The Fourth of July — our nation’s 250th — is a day away. As we have noted over the past two editorials, we are proud to celebrate our nation’s achievements with a special edition today. We hope you enjoy it. Within that edition are several noteworthy speeches. “We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live,” President Abraham Lincoln said at Gettysburg on Nov. 19, 1862. “It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we ...

Diversity of American experiences makes country richer

As we noted in Wednesday’s edition, our nation’s 250th anniversary is two days away — and we are proud to share a special edition with our region to celebrate the occasion. We addressed how writing and editing this edition prompted us to reflect on the value of hard work to our nation ...

250th Fourth of July a good time to reflect on hard work

Our 250th Independence Day will soon be here. The Williamsport Sun-Gazette is honored to commemorate this occasion with a special edition, reflecting on the history of our communities and of our nation. As we wrote and edited the special edition, which will be included in Friday’s edition, we ourselves reflected on our history. One note or detail of our region’s history that stuck with us in the role work and industry have played in the successes of our communities. From agriculture to the logging industry, our region was built by men and women working hard — primarily to ...

Trendy tech not always best for getting job done

Companies that jump on the latest trendy technology a little too early are often stuck with the bill when it doesn’t turn out to fulfill all its promise. In Dublin, Ohio, taxpayers had to foot the bill for a K5 autonomous security robot the police department called “DubBot,” after it failed miserably at its job. According to a report by the website Futurism, which cited a Columbus Dispatch report, DubBot helped make no arrests and issued no tickets during its less-than-a-year on the job. Or, as the department spokesperson put it, it “wasn’t meeting operational ...

Frugality, focus on necessities needed in assistance programs

A federal court has ruled against an initiative by the Trump administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and some supportive states to prohibit the use of federal nutrition assistance money from being spent on candy and sugary drinks. We can understand the frustrations of taxpayers, at ...

What other newspapers are saying: Vaccine conspiracies will have consequences

If history someday defines our current political era as one in which America inexplicably allowed preventable, once-defeated diseases to reemerge and ravage society — and that narrative is growing today with alarming clarity — the most baffling part of the story will be how we failed to see it coming. Today’s deeply misguided anti-vaccination movement didn’t start with the 2020 pandemic, but political resistance to COVID vaccination policies supercharged it. Many (including this page ) have warned in the past few years that politically driven distrust of COVID vaccines would ...