We pray that, with God’s grace, we would work as a nation toward unity. Jesus, thank You for humbling Yourself to walk alongside us. Help our leaders be more civil, to walk alongside each other, their constituents and those with hardships and those who suffer. Oh Father, let us take a minute to say “thanks.” On this day, we live in your spirit, on your planet and amongst our brothers and sisters in Christ. Thank you, Lord, for the gift of today. Amen.
It is unfortunate PPL is raising its electricity rates again at a time of record inflation and as the cold weather hits. Beginning Dec. 1, PPL’s default residential rate will rise by another 2 cents per kilowatt hour, from $12.366 to $14.612. PPL officials say the about 18% rate hike will cost the average customer an extra $22 per month. A year ago, on Nov. 30, 2021, PPL’s default residential rate was 7.554 cents per kilowatt hour. With the December 2022 increase, PPL will have raised the default residential rate by 93.7% since then. The default rate is the rate charged to ...
When police catch the person or people who are vandalizing the Little Red Libraries in our community, the judge should make that person or persons build new ones, stock them and help raise money to sustain them. Those perpetrating these crimes are cowards. They get gratification from damaging things their community values. You want to anger your community, keep it up because you’re going to get caught. Tell you what, the culprits better not be very young juveniles running through the neighborhoods because, if so, the judge should teach their parents a lesson about parenting, ...
It’s Veterans Day 2022 and we want to focus on health care for the men and women who wear or wore our country’s military uniforms. Active duty military and veterans do and have sacrificed for our country. The pandemic, meanwhile, has strained our nation’s healthcare system. Have you had to wait for an appointment or outpatience service lately? We know the Veterans Administration hospitals are strained, too. It’s incumbent upon our elected leaders to work to insure our active duty citizens and veterans don’t have excessive or unreasonable delays or get any second-rate ...
We’re heartened to see compromise among Democrats and Republicans in Harrisburg in the $2 billion tax credit package just signed by Gov. Tom Wolf and designed to offer incentives for natural gas usage, hydrogen production, milk processing and biomedical research. It came after “months of quiet negotiations between the Democrat and Republicans in the General Assembly,” The Express reported this week. Ninety cents out of each $1 offered will be used to encourage the use of natural gas, including $1 billion in tax incentives to attract a new “hydrogen hub” to ...
In 1839, Edward Everett, Whig Party member and incumbent governor of Massachusetts, faced a challenge by Democratic nominee Marcus Morton. Morton received 51,034 votes — clearing the threshold for a runoff election by a single vote. While the state’s laws provided Everett avenues for contesting Morton’s vote total, he declined to pursue them and allowed Morton to take office. In 1974, Republican nominee Louis Wyman and Democratic nominee John Durkin competed for a U.S. Senate seat in the aftermath of the Nixon administration’s Watergate scandal. When the votes were ...