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Calm down

Elsie M. Miller Mill Hall Just watched another citizen die at the hands of ICE. I won’t guess who was at fault... ICE or a citizen. Frankly, reports are conflicting. This man had a permit to carry. Right to carry is a law I don’t want to see legislated away. What a tragedy. God bless him and his family. Now the big question... People are abused on both sides, so, why doesn’t ICE give their list of ‘wanted immigrants’ to local police and require local police to collect those immigrants. Local police have collected immigrants before. It would get the job done and would ...

World democracies under threat

Donald Moskowitz Londonderry, NH This letter is based on Alan Dowd’s article in the July 2025 issue of the American Legion Magazine. He stated, “a world without American leadership is a world out of order — and a world out of order is a threat to American interests.” We must maintain our leadership role. Communist China, Russia and North Korea pose threats to the U.S. and democracies around the world. Their Communist ideologies promote authoritarian rule by decree without any of the freedoms encompassed by democratic governments, especially freedom of speech, freedom of ...

11.03.26

Sam Stea Cogan Station I’ll always remember my father’s words to me when I showed him a birdhouse I made for a seventh-grade school project. I’d done a crummy job and I knew it. He shook his head and said, “Sammy, how you do anything is how you do everything.” I find the older I get, the truer those words become. Let’s expand on this theme. President Trump, upon hearing a bad U.S. jobs report, made public by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, fired its commissioner, Erika McEntarfer, citing, without any evidence, that the “numbers were rigged.” This happened last ...

Democrats destroying America

Arthur Keller Beavertown The Democrats are trying to destroy America and mid-term elections will be critical. Four Democrat states are suing Trump to keep Somalians robbing America. Nineteen Democrat states are suing Trump to give sex change operations to kids. Twenty-two Democrat states are suing Trump to hide voter data from his audit. Twenty-one Democrat states are suing Trump to give SNAP benefits to illegals. Long rows of wind turbines off our east coast would significantly interfere with our maritime radar complicating search and rescue operations by our Coast Guard and ...

The states must lead — and we must demand it

Patty Satalia, Diane Ebken and Linda Barton State College We are living through a moment of real national danger. The rule of law is being strained, constitutional limits are ignored and federal power is increasingly used to intimidate and divide rather than to protect. When national institutions falter, the states are not spectators. They are a constitutional counterweight — and today, they may be our last line of defense. Democratic governors, acting together, have the authority and responsibility to meet this moment. As chair of the Democratic Governors Association, ...

Trump voters get the shaft

Jim Hironimus White Hall I have zero pity for the people that voted for Trump and believed his lies to get their votes! Where is his less than $2 a gallon gas? Where are the lower prices? Where are their SNAP benefits? Where are their lower health insurance prices and lower medicine prices? Guess he didn’t stop the war in Ukraine in one day, did he? Why are the tax payers paying for him to play golf and have parties at his Mar-a-Lago resort when all the other past presidents went to Camp David to entertain? Camp David cost the tax payer zero! Trump and his family ...