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What other newspapers are saying: New FAFSA still a problem

It’s a depressingly familiar Washington story: A well-meaning update of a single Education Department college form turned into a massive policy blunder, harming the very students and universities it was meant to help. Worse, the department now appears to have failed to fix the problem in time for another application cycle. The department, and perhaps even Congress, needs to end the saga of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), now. FAFSA is a form would-be college students fill out as they apply and consider whether and where to enroll. Students provide financial ...

Campaign claims can play fast and loose

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 ...

As children head back to school, motorists and parents must prioritize safety

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 ...

What other newspapers are saying: Election-year fentanyl fearmongering doesn’t help

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 ...

Government cannot spend its way out of housing problem

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 ...

Recent report an early step in asking needed questions

“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 ...