As we noted in this past weekend’s editorial, our region is enriched by an economy that offers employment to suit any situation — blue-collar, white-collar and other. Part of ensuring that the bevy of opportunities can continue — and can continue to offer our region significant choices ...
This weekend, the Little League Baseball World Series concludes in South Williamsport. The nuance that the sports organization was founded in Williamsport and now hosts the championship in the neighboring community is often lost on visiting media and other visitors, to the amusement of some ...
After six months of war with Iran, President Trump has a credibility problem. His blustering threats, alternating with claims of imminent peace and victory, are doubted by friends and foe. Will his new threat this week on Truth Social of the “MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION EVER TAKEN AGAINST ANY COUNTRY!” be different? By now the world will have to see it to believe it. No President has yet climbed the Iran sanctions ladder with China, moving from the isolated “teapot” refineries that buy Iran’s oil to the Chinese state-owned enterprises that support them. Nor has any ...
Next Step Ministries — the collaborative efforts known for several past winters as Code Blue — are taking the proverbial reins of the Saving Grace shelter on Grace Street from the American Rescue Workers. “This agreement allows two organizations that care deeply about our community to ...
“Today represents an exciting step forward in our mission to build health and bridge gaps in care,” Max Houseknecht Jr., president and CEO of River Valley Health said at the ribbon cutting for the new “food pharmacy” operated by the New Love Center and River Valley Health, as reported ...
Japan’s yen has slid back towards 160 to the dollar, despite last month’s extraordinary US-Japanese intervention. Traders are betting that its role as a cheap funding pipeline for global finance will continue. Earlier this month the Trump administration stepped in to help Tokyo stabilise its currency. “Japan’s been very good to us, with the exception, of course, of Pearl Harbor,” Donald Trump explained. More help is likely to be on its way. But this is less a rescue of the yen than an attempt by Scott Bessent, the US treasury secretary, to preserve a cash spigot that benefits ...
