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War isn’t the solution

Americans are facing many serious problems: • An affordability crisis: High prices for food, housing, and utilities • A health care crisis: Unaffordable insurance and rural hospital closures • A weakened safety net: Millions cut from SNAP and Medicaid • Rising inequality • Tariffs that function as taxes, paid by small businesses and consumers • Unreleased Epstein files and continued lack of accountability for child sex predators • Overly aggressive immigration enforcement that ensnares citizens and legal immigrants • Detention centers with dangerous ...

Alive and well

Trump Derangement Syndrome is alive and well in Lycoming County. Ms. Caruso lays the blame for everything wrong in this country on Trump. Not once have I seen an editorial of hers regarding the millions and millions of illegal immigrants cross our border when Biden was president, or about the over 350,000 children missing. Thankfully the Trump administration is doing what they can to send the illegal immigrants back and they have found many of the missing children and have reunited them with their families. We also have Biden’s Covid Shot mandate with all the silly things that went ...

Helping farmers

I thought Trump was a friend of farmers, but it doesn’t appear to be so. Aside from his high tariffs causing farmers to lose their markets and the high cost of fuel due to an unnecessary war, Trump just canceled a program, which awarded $300 million for projects which supported farmers in underserved communities. As Representative Angie Craig of Minnesota said, “Instead of focusing on lowering input costs for farm families by ending Trump’s inflationary tariffs and the war in Iran- which has sent prices for fertilizer and fuel skyrocketing - the Trump administration thinks it ...

New Jersey

So… can we all agree that the new Pennsylvania license plates look like they were designed by someone in New Jersey? JAN CHOLIN Port Matilda Submitted by email

Kings

Today is March 29th and I celebrate Vietnam Veterans Memorial Day along with King’s Day. Yesterday, March 28th, across our great country, demonstrations labeled “No Kings” were held. No Kings otherwise described as a symptom of Trump Derangement Syndrome, a serious defect suffered by liberal Democrats, with unfortunately no obvious cure, other than, perhaps, common sense. I for one though, would be quite satisfied with a king rather than the do-nothing members of Congress, both Democrat and Republican, especially those of Democratic persuasion. President Trump, who I agree, is ...

Lowering the temperature starts with truth

In response to the accusation of Israeli apartheid, Governor Josh Shapiro recently asserted: “We’ve got to be acknowledging that language matters here. That words matter and that we’ve got to use words that are actually rooted in reality and are able to bring the temperature down.” Notably, in 2021, two former Israeli ambassadors to South Africa, Ilan Baruch and Alon Liel, co-authored an op-ed concluding that Israel has indeed become an apartheid state. They cited the two-tiered legal system in the West Bank, illegal settlements, the demolition of homes, and the forcing of ...