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What other newspapers are saying: Trickery tries to hide cost of student loan takeover

It’s a dirty job, but someone has to tell you about the federal government’s budget tricks. The latest is exposed in a new Congressional Budget Office report that shows how the 2010 Democratic takeover of student debt has created a new and vast entitlement. CBO examined a sample of federal student loans that entered repayment between July 2009 and June 2013 to measure the extent borrowers were making progress on repaying their debt before the three-and-a-half years of pandemic forbearance. Short conclusion: They weren’t. During the first six years after borrowers were supposed ...

Harris continues to miss opportunities

The news a week ago in the Williamsport Sun-Gazette was that Kamala Harris, vice president and Democratic nominee for the presidency, would skip the Al Smith dinner. As the article from the Associated Press noted, it has been a tradition for both Democratic and Republican candidates to speak ...

Cast an informed vote in important state races

We can understand why and how the presidential race every four years can overshadow other political campaigns. The presidency effects lives from the coasts of Maine and Florida to the islands of Hawaii and the mountains of Alaska. As such, journalists and the public in every corner of our ...

What other newspapers are saying: Sports betting needs oversight

The new National Football League season will see plenty of records set on the field — and it’s expected to hit new heights off the field, too: specifically, the American Gaming Association projects that legal wagers on games will reach $35 billion, a 30 percent increase over last season. Most of that betting will involve online betting apps. In part, the growth reflects the fact that three new states — Maine, North Carolina and Vermont — have legalized legal sports betting, raising the total to 38 states and the District. And partly the projected growth reflects new incentives ...

Research stalls for pregnancy complication

Despite its wealth of resources, America lacks unlimited capacity in pursuing medical research. That acknowledged, it nevertheless is reasonable to conclude that this country is not utilizing all of its available research capacity, and that this nation — and the rest of the world — would ...

What other newspapers are saying: Mental health inadequacies unacceptable

The death earlier this summer of a mentally ill Scranton man who authorities said was killed by his roommate at Norristown State Hospital is yet another sad symptom of this nation’s woefully inadequate system to help people whose medical conditions have made them a danger to both themselves and others. Jacob Gonzalez, 25, diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression, was killed the day before a scheduled July 15 court hearing to determine his competence to leave the state-run psychiatric hospital and stand trial for breaking into a doctor’s office in November to ...