“A dream.” “Crazy.” “Special.” These are some of the words Penny Samar uses to describe her opportunity to compete on “American Idol” and the opportunities in her life that took her to that chance. As the Sun-Gazette talks to Samar, she is frequently thankful — for her ...
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 ...
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 Russia” if it did not reach a deal with Kyiv. Ukraine’s acceptance of a 30-day ceasefire proposal, building on its own suggestion of a halt in air and maritime conflict, threw the onus on Moscow. On Thursday, Vladimir Putin claimed to support the idea in theory – but warned of “serious issues” ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ever since the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened in 2011 with a mandate to regulate financial institutions, its detractors have tried to eliminate it. They have questioned its constitutionality, dismantled its board and slammed it for all sorts of shortcomings. The second Trump administration, however, might have devised a more effective attack: Just walk in and pull the plug. Trump officials often cast this as a fight to rein in bureaucratic overreach, but in reality they are disappearing an agency that plays a crucial role in protecting the economy. In recent weeks, Elon ...
