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Editorials

We need answers about vaping

“A proliferation of e-cigarette flavors and forms, coupled with marketing efforts from manufacturers and parental enabling — and even encouragement — has led to a surge of vaping among younger and younger kids,” a recent article in the Altoona Mirror said. A related quote from the ...

What other newspapers are saying: Americans are all in this together

“I volunteered to get out before you all threw me out,” U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, I-W.Va., said during a stop in Parkersburg recently. Surely he knows how very much his work on our behalf has meant to Mountain State residents over the years, and that his determination to focus on that work ...

Voting — it starts with you

Voters here in Pennsylvania have a significant decision to make today at the ballot box. Don’t let your voice go unheard as the Keystone State has become the center of the 2024 presidential election. Consider: both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris were in Pittsburgh Monday evening for ...

The value of voting — in others’ words

This weekend, we encouraged every eligible voter to cast an informed ballot. If our words did not persuade you of the importance of this cherished right, perhaps the words of presidents, great writers and statesmen, drawn from Politico magazine and the websites for Maine’s Department of ...

Many important votes to be cast

We understand that this election — perhaps more so than past elections — has been overwhelming, even tiresome. We still hope every eligible voter in Lycoming County and our surrounding counties has cast or will cast informed votes. We also, as we have editorialized upon in the past, ...

What other newspapers are saying: How to fix the Secret Service

A report issued about two weeks ago on the assassination attempt against Donald Trump this summer in Butler, Pa., comes to an alarming conclusion about the Secret Service’s shortcomings. In the absence of “fundamental reform,” it says, “another Butler can and will happen again.” Will ...