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Editorials

Overly broad language can be stealthy ploy against rights

The Washington state Legislature is considering new gun control measures — and one in particular illustrates the sort of semantic “two-step” skeptics of our Second Amendment rights often engage in. The first step is a proposal that some may find, at first glance and especially if they ...

What other newspapers are saying: Developments give Russia confidence

A three-year conflict has taken bewildering, lurching turns in under a fortnight. Less than two weeks after Donald Trump berated Volodymyr Zelenskyy, ejected him from the White House and cut off Ukraine’s support, he U-turned to threaten financial measures “that would be very bad for ...

Selling federal lands for housing worth exploring

We are optimistic about an announcement by the U.S. departments of the Interior and Housing and Urban Development. According to a report in The Hill, a Washington, D.C.-based newspaper and website, the two departments are launching a review of federal lands to determine which parcels of ...

What our police officers truly need

As reported in Tuesday’s addition of the Williamsport Sun-Gazette, the city’s police department has added two electric bicycles to its — for lack of a better term — motor pool. We wish it was as easy for our police to meet what we believe is their most urgent need. To be clear, we ...

Fight an unfortunate reminder of need for sportsmanship

With coverage from Sports Illustrated, NBC, Fox, CBS, TMZ and USA Today, two communities in Pennsylvania are famous. Oh, wait. Wrong word. They’re infamous. With minutes to go in a PIAA boys basketball playoff game and Uniontown battling to mount a comeback against Meadville Area High ...