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, ...
On the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, we reflected on the pain and sacrifice of the occasion — and on the resilience of America and the American people. We contemplated that resilience in its place in our 250 years of history, which we celebrate in 2026. We must also ...
Over the past 25 years, the Williamsport Sun-Gazette has sought to convey how tragic the losses that families, communities and our nation as a whole suffered on this date. “Our nation was indelibly changed,” The Sun-Gazette wrote on the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, “by a ...
Labor Day is often regarded as the unofficial end of summer, one last long weekend -- a final trip to the camp or a backyard gathering. But the holiday also gave us an opportunity to pause and remember what Labor Day is really about -- honoring the American worker. Our communities do not run on their own. We depend on people who get up every morning and go to work -- teachers; health care workers; construction workers; farmers; retail and service employees; and police officers, firefighters and other public servants who protect and serve us. Many of these workers rarely receive ...
