Today is an Election Day. The election in question is a primary election for numerous municipal positions and school boards. The 2025 election cycle, like most cycles that fall between presidential and congressional elections, often fails to receive the level of attention to which voters hold ...
Earlier this month, William Nichols Jr., Williamsport’s former finance director, was sentenced to 12 months of probation for felony charges of tampering with public records and theft by failure to make required disposition. Nichols’ “leadership,” if it can be called that, had evaded ...
On a Thursday afternoon, white smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City as Catholics and non-Catholics alike around the world watched with great interest to see who would be chosen as the successor to the late Pope Francis. As with many cultural events, experts came out of the woodwork. People who two weeks ago had never heard of a single Cardinal became experts on the internal politics of the Vatican. With intense media coverage of an ever-growing list of candidates, the task of finding a new Pope seemed less like a solemn religious ceremony and more like the lead up to ...
Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines “tipping point” as the critical point in a situation, process or system beyond which a significant and often unstoppable effect or change takes place. A tipping point was reached quickly in 2020 at the start of the COVID-19 ...
Jason Fink, president and CEO for the Williamsport/Lycoming Chamber of Commerce, is right to sound the alarm. Fink detailed in his monthly column in Chamber Connection, provided with last Wednesday’s edition of the Sun-Gazette, the risks of an energy crisis in our state and region. “We ...
The times they are a changin’, especially on progressive climate dogma. On Thursday the House voted in strong bipartisan fashion to overturn the EV mandate the Biden Administration let California impose on the rest of America. The vote was 246-164 for a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to repeal the waiver that the Environmental Protection Agency granted California for its EV mandate. The waiver provision was written to let California address smog. But Sacramento Democrats lobbied the Biden EPA to let it apply to carbon emissions. The mandate is ludicrously impossible to ...
