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Where’s the beef?

Now that President Trump has signed Presidential Executive Orders ending “transgenderism” in sports, the military and gender re-assignment surgery on minors, it would be a good time for UPMC to redirect their massive transgender surgery and support network to “beefing” up their Emergency Room services, especially at UPMC Williamsport. This “gravy train” of “trendy” medical procedures is over. The only thing left is the damage done. Time to get back to serving the community with adequate staff and rooms. JOHN C. BUTLER South Williamsport Submitted by Virtual Newsroom

Shooting on Fifth Avenue

In his first campaign, Trump bragged that he could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and he wouldn’t lose any voters. Well, guess what, he is in the process of “shooting” our democracy in full view and his toadies are just standing on the sidewalk applauding. As the courts try to administer life saving procedures, the damage has been done. Things will never be the same. Even while he is told he has no power to do the things he is doing, he keeps doing them because HE CAN! He has no right to, but that is not stopping him. Time after time he is being told he has no ...

Big brother

“Big Brother” has finally arrived. And his name is Elon Musk. While you all know by now who Elon Musk is, you might not be familiar with “Big Brother.” He is a fictional character in George Orwell’s novel 1984. This book (published in 1949) tells the futuristic story of a totalitarian state in which the ruling party wields complete and total power for its own goals, regardless of the needs of the people, or “proles.” Proles being inferior whose ideas don’t matter. Check out the novel details in Wikipedia. Currently in Washington DC, Musk and his crew have gained ...

We won’t be a ‘bird town’

Regarding the city of Williamsport adopting initiatives to be considered a “Bird Town Pennsylvania,” how does the city, in good conscience, see putting these initiatives in place without addressing the biggest threat to birds – outdoor (not just feral) cats? Many wildlife and humane organizations report that outdoor and feral cats are the biggest threat to birds. How does a city without a cat ordinance to address the out-of-control cat population even receive a “bird town” designation? From a personal perspective, I have a front-row seat to the problem -- I live across the ...

Massive freak-out

Since the inauguration of President Trump, the Democrats and radical left-wing characters of the national news media seem to be on a maniacal binge of pathological hysteria. We see people like Chuck Schumer and Maxine Waters, along with their crazed retinue, dancing around and chanting like a bunch of drunken teenagers. Extreme radical commentator Rachael Maddow, who in my opinion is a total whack job, with her head bobbing back and forth like it is about to fall off her torso, claims some of the executive actions of the President are far worse than Watergate. Impeachment efforts are ...

Guantanamo and debt reduction

I am pleased to learn President Trump is going to send 30,000 illegal immigrants to the currently empty beds available in Guantanamo, Cuba. Imagine the cost reduction of housing illegal immigrants in a U.S. military base rather than housing them in currently in expensive $200-$250 per night in New York and Chicago hotels at taxpayer expense?  This may help reduce our $36 TRILLION national debt. I need to ask my Democrat friends why Biden did not think of this since he had 4 years and 430 days of vacation to ponder it. RON BENJAMIN Mansfield Submitted by email