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What other newspapers are saying: Have a safe Super Bowl Sunday

There is one more professional football game to be played in the 2024-2025 season. There are few Americans who have not heard of this particular contest called the Super Bowl. The sporting event that will take place Sunday evening has essentially no equal. Sure, there are the Olympics, the World Series, the Stanley Cup finals and the NBA championships. The excitement of those events are all spread over a number of days. Sunday’s Super Bowl, however, will pack all the excitement into a few intense hours. The upcoming clash of the AFC champion Kansas City Chiefs and the NFC ...

Penn State needs to be more transparent

Imagine what people in communities across Pennsylvania are thinking as Penn State fuels speculation that some of its branch campuses might be targeted for possible closing — in large part by remaining tight-lipped about which campuses could be in danger of being shuttered. We suspect ...

Court’s rejection of gun control measure right

We believe the fifth circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals made the correct decision last week when it struck down a federal law prohibiting 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds from purchasing handguns. “Ultimately, the text of the Second Amendment includes eighteen-to-twenty-year-old individuals ...

What other newspapers are saying: Head Start plagued by mismanagement

Head Start has been something of a sacred cow in Washington since its creation in 1965. The $12.3 billion federal program provides pre-school services to nearly 790,000 low-income children each year. But a report released last week by the Government Accountability Office reveals serious negligence and fiscal mismanagement in Head Start, putting at risk the very children the program claims to help. The report studies Head Start programs that are operating under interim management, meaning those whose former managers—usually local agencies or nonprofits—gave up or lost their federal ...

New treasury secretary has right ideas

We congratulate Scott Bessent on his confirmation as the United States’ next secretary of the treasury, and believe he has outlined a philosophy that can help America get back on track. Some specific issues on which we are buoyed by his confirmation include the minimum wage, the national ...

Plan helps address region’s housing shortage

We are hopeful about a plan to construct new housing in Hughesville and Wolf Township. Shannon Rossman, director of planning and community development for Lycoming County, offered the Sun-Gazette a thorough explanation for an article in Wednesday’s edition for the proposal and the steps it ...