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What other newspapers are saying: Reform the Secret Service

Based on 58 multi-hour interviews and more than 7,000 documents, the independent bipartisan panel President Joe Biden assigned to analyze the Secret Service after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump this summer issued a grim warning: Without fundamental reforms to the agency, what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13 “can and will happen again.” These changes, even more than the specific events of the rally, ought to be the focus going forward. To be sure, the facts are stunning, as they appear not only in the independent panel’s report but also in an interim ...

Voters cannot be ignored forever

Our editorial board does not believe the results of the presidential campaign that ended a week ago should surprise anyone — least of all the frequent readers of this page. We have noted with alarm that the Biden Administration’s failures to address inflation or even communicate that they ...

Veterans Day a cause for gratitude

“We have so much to be grateful for this holiday weekend,” Maj. Gen. Mark J. Schindler, adjutant general of Pennsylvania, told the crowd gathered at Lycoming County Veterans Memorial Park in Williamsport, on one morning in May. “Remember what it took for us to assemble here.” While ...

What other newspapers are saying: US, Mexico need to work together

From 2006 to 2012 during Felipe Calderón’s presidency, Genaro García Luna was Mexico’s top law enforcement official, in charge of building a strategy to confront the powerful drug cartels and sharing intelligence with U.S. officials. He was also on the payroll of the Sinaloa cartel. In October, García Luna — who was arrested in Dallas in 2019 – was sentenced to 38 years in prison by a federal judge in Brooklyn, a dramatic downfall for a man who once led Mexico’s federal police force and, according to testimony, received millions of dollars in bribes and served as the de ...

We need answers about vaping

“A proliferation of e-cigarette flavors and forms, coupled with marketing efforts from manufacturers and parental enabling — and even encouragement — has led to a surge of vaping among younger and younger kids,” a recent article in the Altoona Mirror said. A related quote from the ...

What other newspapers are saying: Americans are all in this together

“I volunteered to get out before you all threw me out,” U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, I-W.Va., said during a stop in Parkersburg recently. Surely he knows how very much his work on our behalf has meant to Mountain State residents over the years, and that his determination to focus on that work — rather than the political theater and noise — has been deeply appreciated. It is likely Manchin would have been given the opportunity to leave on his own terms whenever he chose. But with the close of this chapter in his career comes the chance to speak freely about the state of politics in ...