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Juvenile crime needs new ideas

The Williamsport Sun-Gazette’s Editorial Opinion (Monday June 22) describes a need for “multi-faceted” efforts addressing juvenile crime prevention. The opinion lauds efforts by Police to hold juveniles, parents and guardians “accountable”. Lycoming County Juvenile Probation Director Matt Minier, in an article by Pat Crossley (May 29 “We Care About Kids” Lycoming County Commissioners Host Meeting on Ways to Help Youth) explained that “evidence based probation instituted in 2009 is “time consuming, technical” and “greatly increased the workload of staff”. This ...

Not a Christian nation

I am compelled, once again, to correct to Mr. Adams’s false claims that we have been a ‘Christian’ nation since our founding. There is nowhere in our founding documents where Christianity is mentioned, let alone set above any and all other religions. In fact, many of the Founding Fathers were followers of Deism, which focused on reason and ethics rather than traditional religious dogmas. They were very clear, in the First Amendment to the Constitution, to clarify that religion and government are, and should be, separate entities and all people should be free to worship as their ...

President vanquishes truth

So much winning! The events of the last few weeks should have left every American, MAGA or not, wondering how much longer this great nation can continue to function under the cripplingly stupid and intensely corrupt hold of the Trump regime. The President of the United States has been throughout his five-plus years in the Oval, a world-class liar and supreme narcissist who could care less about the success of the America he ostensibly leads. For months, economists had warned the public that Trump’s tariffs would not be paid by foreign governments, as Trump swore to be the case, but ...

Skills or slots?

Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that skills game machines devices found in bars, restaurants, convenience stores, gas stations, social clubs, and other businesses are illegal gambling devices under the state’s Gaming Control Act and Crimes Code. Lets look at this, the argument for Clubs . They wont be able to donate as much anymore, good argument I guess but lets go back seven years and look at donations according to PA small games 2G reports ( Public Knowledge) . You would see in fact that they donated more then without skill machines. Profits from skill machines are not ...

Odd

Isn’t it odd the Congressional Democrats now want to have term limits on the US Supreme Court members but no term limits on themselves? Hypocrisy! BOB PRYOR Mifflin Township Submitted by email

Amused or appalled?

As a non-resident of Muncy Township, not really having a dog in the fight, I have tried to follow the dark comedy which the supervisors meetings have become. It would be great entertainment if it wasn’t so sad. One has to wonder why someone is not calling for an investigation by the Pennsylvania State Attorney Generals Office. MICHAEL P. BOWER Montoursville Submitted by email