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What other newspapers are saying: California fires a warning

The flames ripping through parts of Los Angeles and neighboring counties have been an unprecedented disaster, and persistent Santa Ana winds threaten to keep the smoke and horror going. At least 24 people have died and more than 40,000 acres have burned. Many residents will soon return to leveled neighborhoods, having watched via home security cameras or news feeds as the inferno engulfed their homes and businesses. As the evacuees look ahead to rebuilding, they are seeing the limits of the region’s faulty insurance system — and the need to better protect homes from natural ...

Inauguration an opportunity to reflect on liberty, future

The inauguration of a president, which occurred Monday in Washington, D.C., is about more than one person, or more than one presidential term. It is about a republic and her people, recommitting themselves to the principles of liberty and to the sacrifices necessary to ensure that liberty is ...

City needs leadership, not hand-wringing

The municipal government of Williamsport owes the Federal Transit Authority $1.4 million — and, as reports in Monday’s and Tuesday’s editions of the Sun-Gazette detail, that debt will likely increase due to interest being charged after a 30-day deadline that started Jan. 8. The FTA’s ...

What other newspapers are saying: Goodbye and good riddance to net neutrality

The courts are slowly catching up with the many illegal Biden Administration rules, and on Thursday the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals cleaned up after the Federal Communications Commission’s net-neutrality rule. Credit an assist from the Supreme Court. Democrats on the FCC last year resurrected the Obama-era regulation that classified broadband providers as common carriers under Title II of the 1934 Communications Act. Chair Jessica Rosenworcel claimed the rule was needed to protect national security, but the real goal was to give bureaucrats power to micromanage broadband pricing ...

We would not say we’re glad, exactly, that the public is learning why and for what the Shapiro and Wolf administrations spent $368,000 on the services of private law firms. We don’t believe disclosing the nature of the expenditures should have taken this long, or required the ...

Connection between cancer, alcohol deserves awareness

The word “transparency” is now big among Americans. Especially on the governmental front — local, state as well as national — anger pours forth when the public learns about secrecy having prevailed, especially regarding an important, controversial issue that impacts them directly, ...