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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 ...

What other newspapers are saying: Another sign of weakening influence

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 ...

Energy needs to be priority

When Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate David McCormick visited Williamsport about a week ago, he shared a number of important — and correct — points with local leaders. Pennsylvania needs job creation — not only more jobs but jobs that offer wages and salaries capable of ...

Report confirms: Vaccines save lives

If you were around in 1989 and 1990, the things you probably remember most about those days are the Berlin Wall falling, the invasion of Kuwait and the lead-up Operation Desert Storm, watching “Twin Peaks” on TV or “Batman” in a movie theater or purchasing hot albums by M.C. Hammer or ...