As executive director of the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association and a former member of the state Department of Health Medical Marijuana Advisory Board, I would like to express my concerns, and those of many of our membership, about the legalization of marijuana and the relative effects ...
I received some interesting responses to my July 27 guest editorial, “We all need to be more tolerant about masks.” Most responders seemed to understand the main points I was trying to make – that there are reasons why some people choose not to wear masks – such as conflicting messages ...
There are those who are trying to take advantage of the COVID-19 disease in all kinds of creative ways. Some are the ordinary scam artists, promising instant cures or protection from the flu-like symptoms. Still others pedal stories about a dam ready to burst with a flood of lawsuits. Those who ...
As Sen. Gene Yaw represents a district where humanity’s role in climate change is often unaccepted, his declaration in these pages, “the goal of addressing climate change is desirable,” is a welcome starting point to a dialogue. Numerous economic realities join those of science backing ...
Gov. Tom Wolf is unlawfully scheming to circumvent the Pennsylvania General Assembly and, by his own estimates, impose a $2.36 billion tax on fossil fuel-fired electric generation plants in Pennsylvania over the next 10 years. Governor Wolf’s goal is for Pennsylvania to join the 10-state ...
We all want this to stop, right? The nightly riots in Portland, with programmed destruction having nothing to do with racial injustice. The daily murders in Chicago and New York, including random shootings of young children. The politicized debates over police defunding and the worthiness ...
This fall’s presidential election is coming up quickly, and during every day leading up to Nov. 3, Pennsylvania’s county leaders and election officials are hard at work preparing to administer an impartial and accurate election. And what’s top of mind for them? Making sure that voters can ...
Times are tough. And we want you to know our commitment to customers goes far beyond keeping your lights on. As 2020 dawned eight months ago, no one could have imagined the difficulties we now face because of the coronavirus pandemic. The crisis is far from over. Financial challenges ...
As the 2020 election season approaches, we are certain to hear arguments about our federal income tax. Conservatives will complain that our citizens are over-taxed. Progressives will complain about “tax cuts for the rich.” Any proposal for change will likely be long on rhetoric, and short ...
I recently read a commentary titled “Threat of Fossil Fuels.” This is one of many pieces I have seen in which the authors cite the use of fossil fuels as a detriment to our environment. Of course, these articles fail to reference clean coal technologies or the fact that as Pennsylvania’s ...
You are standing on a hill that overlooks a busy, traffic-signal intersection. The lights are changing. The motorist receiving the green light hits the gas the millisecond they see green. The motorist receiving the red light decides they have an extra second to work with and is speeding ...
In an extremely moving video that went viral on Fourth of July weekend, the descendants of Frederick Douglass, the former slave who became a forceful leader of the abolition movement in the 19th century, recited his famous speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Appreciation of ...
The COVID-19 pandemic had temporarily severed the production and the supply chains for fentanyl — much of the fentanyl was produced in Wuhan, China. However, fentanyl is still sold online and supplied by Mexican drug cartels, although the pandemic has made it difficult for illegal producers ...
In July, bipartisan bills, known as the Coronavirus Economic Relief for Transportation Services Act (CERTS), were introduced in the U.S. Senate (S.4150) and U.S. House of Representatives (H.R.7642). If enacted, CERTS would provide $10 billion in economic relief for over-the-road buses, ...
An academic year like no other begins soon at Williamsport’s two colleges. Pennsylvania College of Technology will resume in-person instruction when its Fall 2020 semester launches Aug. 17. Across town at Lycoming College, which similarly intends to deliver in-person education to new and ...
Should the First Amendment really permit neo-Nazis to come to Williamsport and yell through a bullhorn “F*** your n***** mayor?” When I heard the words replayed on a Facebook post, I was more livid than if I read it in a magazine or newspaper. I had difficulty sleeping that night to ...
One of the biggest frustrations we have faced during this pandemic is a lack of effective communication from the Wolf administration. The orders issued by the governor and the secretary of Health have been life-changing for families, employees and business owners, and they have left many ...
I don’t tweet. But millions of people do. And millions more people use Twitter as their barometer of the world. It’s even recently been suggested Twitter is the driver of the New York Times front page. It’s regrettable to me, but Twitter has a lot of influence on the way people see the ...
COVID-19 is spreading like wildfire through the nation’s nursing homes. Already, more than 56,000 residents and staff of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities — including over 4,800 in Pennsylvania — have died from COVID-19. They account for more than 44 percent of U.S. ...
To wear a mask in public, or not, that is the question. I don’t like to use a mask, but I choose to wear one, especially in enclosed public spaces, because I believe it provides some protection for myself and for others. Although coronavirus particles are tiny and can pass through mask ...