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 ...
A common theme often can be found in our communities, beyond the perhaps cliched notion that young people are our future — our young people are eager to work hard and learn and improve at new skills to make that future brighter. We are, of course, always happy to share stories of young ...
We are happy to learn from the office of state Rep. Joe Hamm, R-Hepburn Township, that the legislator recently attended our region’s National Rifle Association banquet in Hughesville. The state representative discussed his efforts in the legislature to secure concealed-carry rights in ...
The messaging emblazoned across the University of Texas campus embraces a global outlook: “What starts here changes the world.” Yet the federal government’s sweeping efforts to rescind international students’ visas — so far ensnaring at least 176 students across the entire UT system, a sizable chunk of the more than 1,000 students impacted across all American universities — sends a much different, ominous message. Speak out here and it’s time to leave. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said his office is working “every day” to deport the “lunatics” who ...
