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Dictatorship? It’s here

A letter I submitted to this newspaper titled “Autocracy Alert” was published on April 8, 2025. In it I cited signs of a coming dictatorship. I referred to “Project 2025,” written by Federalist Society authors, as the administrations’s playbook. Prior to his election in 2024, Trump denied having knowledge of the treatise. It is now clearly evident that he lied. Trump has succeeded in consolidating his absolute authority over the most important departments and operations of the federal government. Given his strong hold on six justices of the Supreme Court, the “checks and ...

No one gets a free ride

If you come from another country to become a USA citizen and you come here LEGALLY, and OBEY the laws, and ASSIMILATE into the American culture, and WORK HARD you are welcome to this country’s OPPORTUNITIES to advance. Natural born citizens must obey the laws, assimilate into the social structures, and work hard to succeed and take advantage of the opportunities available. If you come here ILLEGALLY, and think you can DISOBEY the laws, set up your own culture and laws, attack our citizens, and not assimilate into the culture, CRITICIZE and PUT DOWN America and our government, and ...

The mouths of babies

The Williamsport Sun-Gazette recently had an editorial supporting U.S. Representative Glenn Thompson’s contention that Pennsylvania doesn’t meet the new 6% error requirement for receiving Federal funds for SNAP, the food assistance program that helps the very poor in our state and also provides small family farms with an additional market for their produce in this food assistance program. Representative Thompson charges Governor Josh Shapiro with a lack of oversight that led to Pennsylvania showing a 10.72% error. A little background will show Representative Thompson’s duplicity ...

Fix the road

Our street Vallamont Lane needs repair!!! 12 years or longer the Williamsport Water Co. put new lines going up Williams Road. As they were working on this project, they used all kinds of heavy equipment like front loaders, dump tricks, etc. and using the lane as a thruway. With the heavy load of equipment, it put wear and tear on this road. After they finished, they said that they would fix the road. Here we are in 2025, and nothing has been done! My neighbors and I had called Williamsport Streets and Parks about the issue, and they said that they would put us on the list, or it was too ...

Judicial votes

As Pennsylvania’s November 4, 2025 judicial elections approach, I urge voters to support Republican candidates Matthew Wolford for Commonwealth Court and Maria Battista for Superior Court, while voting “no” on retaining Supreme Court Justices Christine Donohue, Kevin M. Dougherty, and David N. Wecht. Matthew Wolford, an environmental law expert from Erie County, brings nearly 40 years of experience, earning a “highly recommended” rating from the Pennsylvania Bar Association. His work defending clients against government overreach and teaching at Gannon University showcases ...

What is authoritarianism?

What is authoritarianism? It is the concentration of power in the hands of a small group of people who act in ways that are not constitutionally accountable to the people they represent and serve. The United States is not becoming an authoritarian country, it already is, and it has happened in 7 short months. It is in the news every day. Things have occurred that put our country under the category of authoritarian government. I recommend getting news not from television, but from the old fashioned news sources that have been around forever such as Associated Press and Reuters, which give ...