The 2024 presidential campaign has had more than its share of drama, but it doesn’t hold a candle to what went down in 1968. That was the election where President Lyndon Johnson withdrew from the race, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated on the campaign trail, and rioting happened in the ...
Students have headed back to school for the 2024-25 year and so we remind — or, perhaps, implore — motorists to be mindful, aware and patient. “Motorists must stop when they are behind a bus, meeting the bus or approaching an intersection where a bus is stopped,” the state’s motor ...
The facts of America’s fentanyl crisis are bad enough without having to resort to fabrication. Unfortunately, this election season has brought more fear-mongering about foreign nations — and political opponents — than it has real solutions. Democratic and Republican campaigns have used the horrifying street drug to blame and to divide, rather than to unite around practical policies to reduce both the supply and demand for opioids. It is a staple of Donald Trump’s presidential ...
The Harris campaign is proposing assistance — up to $10,000 for first-time homebuyers and up to $25,000 for first-generation homebuyers — with down payments to purchase a house. There are at least two reasons every American should be deeply skeptical about the feasibility of this ...
“This is indicative of multiple systemic failures all coming down around their ears at once.” So said Andrew Vitek, a professor at Penn State University, for an in-depth examination in Wednesday’s Sun-Gazette into how the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump ...
The U.S. finished its withdrawal from its last military base in Niger this week, and bad actors are already filling the vacuum. The consequences will extend far beyond Africa’s troubled Sahel region. The Pentagon said earlier in August it had completed pulling out troops and equipment from Air Base 201 in the central Nigerien city of Agadez. Before last summer’s coup in Niger, the U.S. maintained about a thousand American troops in the country as a base against the growing jihadist presence in Africa. But in March the ruling junta canceled the status of forces agreement that ...
