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Opioid use disorder legislation

At a time when local, state and federal lawmakers are working to preserve tax dollars, Pennsylvania has an opportunity to save millions on how it attacks the opioid crisis if it passes House Bill 561 or Senate Bill 872, its identical version in the state Senate. This legislation would allow federal Medicaid dollars to be spent on treating state and county prison inmates who suffer from Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) with a combination of medication and therapy treatments. With more federal Medicaid funding we can reduce recidivism and SAVE state and county tax dollars. Counties could tap ...

Political problem

I believe there is a major political problem in the USA. There are people I like to consider blind Republicans and blind Democrats. They vote for their party no matter what. This problem is dividing our country. I have heard so many people criticize politicians but vote for them anyway because they are from their chosen party. Whatever happened to researching and voting for the most qualified person for the job. It is alright to cross party lines to vote for the more qualified person. No one will ever know. Your vote is private. SUE HENNINGER Montoursville Submitted by ...

Not great for ordinary Americans

Republicans have no idea how ordinary Americans live, and they don’t care. Look no further than their wildly regressive domestic policy bill—signed into law on, of all days, Independence Day. The crux of the hugely unpopular bill is tax cuts for the rich. Throwing money at the uber-rich, of course, requires some offsets. Republicans chose to cut services for ordinary folks. The richest 1% of Americans will receive about $117 billion in tax cuts in 2026. Struggling households, meanwhile, will see incomes DROP by 2.9%! Almost $1 trillion was cut from federal health ...

A promise kept or broken?

The rubber-stamp Congress passed the Big (expletive) Bill, ignoring their responsibility to work for the people. Instead, they gladly enslave themselves to a wanna-be autocrat so they can, hopefully, keep their jobs. Just in time; the showman will sign this hoax into law in the middle of Fourth of July festivities, further demeaning the ideals of this once proud and promise-filled country that so many fought and died for. A few crumbs were thrown to the masses (no tax on tips, overtime, and Social Security for example) to distract them so they won’t notice that ‘the haves’ get ...

Follow the money

Because of Trump’s stunning B-2 strike on Iran’s aggressive nuclear weapons program, Trump is now being called a warmonger. But that’s silly. Trump is a businessman. Trump loves making deals. And wars kill people. You can’t make deals with dead people, or even get them to sign a lease except for a six-foot plot. But not only is Trump not a warmonger, he’s also not the opposite. Trump is no starry-eyed hug-the-world snowflake peace freak such as we see demonstrating on our streets. No, he’s a hard-headed calculating cultivator of peace because peace is where the deal is. And ...

A lot more believable

In matters of national security, whom should we trust more—career professionals within the intelligence community, who are trained to make sober and collective assessments based on evidence, or a single man driven by narcissism and a habitual disconnect from the truth? Before our aircraft had even returned to base, former President Trump declared total success in crippling Iran’s nuclear program, boasting of complete obliteration. The problem? No such confirmation had been made. What followed was a retroactive twisting of facts to validate a narrative that appeared more concerned ...