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What other newspapers are saying: Disaster relief contends with misinformation

Dubbed the deadliest hurricane to hit the United States since Maria in 2017, Helene has already claimed more than 200 lives, with many more still unaccounted for. Making matters worse, only a small fraction of households in the hardest-hit counties had flood insurance. Policies are not cheap, and many living on high ground might have thought the risks were too minor to warrant the expense. As Helene makes clear, tropical storms are no longer an exclusively coastal threat. Heavy rains can rapidly flood hill-country streams and ravines, and there is only so much federal aid can do to ...

Career training an important part of education

Montoursville Area School Board is mulling its role in financially contributing to the Lycoming Career and Technology Center, which offers career training — in some ways what traditionally was known as vocational-technical training — to students in much of Lycoming County. We have no ...

Issue of speed enforcement requires patience

Pennsylvania Act 38 of 2023, which is keeping speed cameras in place in Philadelphia and which expanded their use there, also directed the state Local Government Commission to deliver a report within two years making recommendations about whether and how to allow other municipalities to ...

The federal government is predicting a nursing shortage in 2025, and we’re already seeing signs of one locally. Around one-fifth of registered nursing positions in Massachusetts home health care and nursing homes are unfilled. Massachusetts hospitals spent $1.1 billion last year hiring temporary registered nurses to fill vacancies. Nationally, according to a 2022 survey of nurses, the median age of a registered nurse was 46 years old, and more than one-quarter of all nurses reported that they planned to leave nursing over the next 5 years. Yet in July, the US State Department ...

Dinner a reminder of organization’s important work

North Central Sight Services recently hosted its “Feast for the Eyes,” as reported in Tuesday’s edition of the Williamsport Sun-Gazette. The event invites diners to experience a meal blindfolded or with other device that limit eyesight or simulate impaired vision. “By no means do we ...

What other newspapers are saying: White House abuses authority, taxpayers

’Tis the season for election handouts. On Friday the Biden Administration announced lower Medicare prescription drug premiums, which will naturally be paid for by taxpayers. The political irony is that Biden officials are increasing subsidies to insurers they otherwise vilify to mitigate pre-election harm from the Inflation Reduction Act. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) touted in a press release that average Part D premiums will decline by about $90 next year while benefits will improve “thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act and other new enhancements.” P.S.: ...