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In uncertain times, WPSU is a lifeline

Connie Schulz State College Right now, the world feels unsettled. Wars abroad. Political division at home. Misinformation spreading faster than facts. In moments like these, I turn to one place I’ve trusted for decades: WPSU. For years, WPSU has been part of my daily life — in my car, in my home, in my family’s conversations. It has guided us through national crises, election nights, public health emergencies, and local challenges with calm, fact-based reporting. It has educated our children and connected rural communities that too often go unheard. It has also entertained ...

President’s Day has become King’s Day in America

Kimball Shinkoskey Woods Cross, Utah I am writing this commentary on the holiday we traditionally honor past presidents who served our country without overmuch tomfoolery or outright tyranny. Abigail Adams told her husband John, our second President, that “All men would be tyrants if they could.” In America, we tied the hands of our presidents with a strongly worded constitutional law so those administrators of the will of the Congress could not become what human beings always want to become when they get into positions of power. In the 21st century, our once well-educated ...

RADAR need is greatly exaggerated

Tom McCarey Berwyn I also sent this letter to Bellefonte Councilwoman Barbara Dann: It is likely that you get your RADAR information from actors directly in RADAR’s revenue stream: government, police, courts and auto insurers. Their information is anecdotal, urban legend and misinformation. Their goal is to give RADAR to municipal police to raise revenue. They should be disqualified because of the financial conflict of interest. Their premise is that there is a “speeding” crisis. Not true. There is a crisis, but it is a crisis of highway engineering malpractice. The Federal ...

The War

Kathryn V. McFate Loganton Here we go again with the President’s policies and big lies. He was going to decide who would be Iran’s leader. What a lie. They hate our guts and they wouldn’t appoint anybody as their leader that anyone in our country suggests. We are paying the price for Trump’s lies and actions. We pay at the grocery store and the gas pump. We pay with the denial of people’s rights to hospitalization and the fear and mistrust that he has brought on our country. We pay when corporate America raises our car insurance. But the people who pay the most are those ...

Bellefonte and PA boroughs story

James Sikorski, Jr. Wapwallopen I saw the story dealing with Bellefonte and PA Boroughs. Sadly, there is support for municipal use of automated traffic enforcement of all types, as well as municipal police radar. What you never see are questions about why rules, guidelines, and best-practices are not being adhered to regarding traffic engineering. If most people violate a law, then perhaps the law needs to be changed? There are rules and recommendations about how to post speed limits, set yellow light durations, how to place stop signs, etc. Setting up situations to make most ...

A modest proposal

Bob Potter Boalsburg We can all be proud that our U.S. Representative, Glenn Thompson, sponsored the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, recently signed into law by President Donald Trump. With that feather in his cap, perhaps it’s time for Thompson to take on another pressing matter. Since the president appears increasingly willing to send American troops into foreign conflicts, Thompson might consider sponsoring a bill requiring that the draft-age children and grandchildren of any president or member of Congress who votes for war be first in line for service. If war is truly ...