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Gaza’s real fate

Kimball Shinkoskey Woods Cross Looking beyond the current joyful hostage exchange, there is mounting evidence Netanyahu (and Trump) plan to exile most or all Palestinians out of Gaza soon enough. The killing of innocent women and children, perhaps half of the 68,000 known dead in Gaza, is one indication. There is also the deliberate and well-documented starvation campaign aimed at making mealtime in Gaza intolerable for families. The destruction of most hospitals is well known. Also, PBS has reported that virtually all of Gaza’s 660,000 children do not have access to ...

Here’s your sign

Jim Hironimus White Hall I get a kick out of trying to think about how all the people that voted for Trump and his Republican cronies feel about the soon to be higher medical costs for both care and drug costs. Then again, they do not seem to be complaining about the tariffs or the fact Trump never lowered any costs on anything that he promised he would when he got elected! So if anyone starts to complain to you about prices being too high or the government being shut down, your reply should be: “Here’s your sign!” They voted him in and they now are suffering for it! ...

Action on Oct. 18

Elsa Winch Lock Haven In my lifetime, I witnessed the televised conflict of the Vietnam war and its end with the Saigon airlifts. Especially vivid are my memories of seeing American soldiers falling wounded or worse in the rice paddies, the faces of Vietnamese mothers desperately passing their children up to American soldiers reaching out of helicopters to save them from the invading VietCong. War was real. I watched the televised first step on the moon, and RFK, Sr.’s and Rev. Martin Luther King’s speeches broadcast on our family television. The triumph of the lunar landing ...

Vote YES to retain our justices

George Polycranos Port Matilda On Nov. 4, Pennsylvania voters will have the opportunity to vote YES to retain our outstanding Supreme Court Justices, our Superior Court Justice and our Commonwealth Justice. The Pennsylvania Bar Association has recommended that these justices, who have all served Pennsylvania admirably for the last decade and been widely credited for “restoring competence, honor and ethics to our courts,” be retained. So why on earth would anyone want to prevent the retention of judges with so much legal expertise, experience and integrity? Radical ...

Where are we heading?

Willow Eby-Fischer Northumberland In less than a week, we have seen a minister, hands raised in prayer and eyes closed, shot in the head with a pepper ball by an ICE agent firing from a rooftop. Another federal agent aimed his gun directly at a woman in Berwyn, Chicago, because she dared to record ICE. As a U.S. citizen, recording a federal agent while they are performing their duties in public is a constitutionally protected right. A Blackhawk helicopter landed on the roof of a Chicago apartment building, smashed open doors and used flash-bang grenades during a ...

Endangered Species: Public Media

GREG PETERSEN State College As if the elimination of federal funds for WPSU TV & FM weren’t enough, the entity that holds the broadcast license for those stations — the Penn State Board of Trustees — made a decision to shutter the stations completely. For accuracy’s sake, it was the Board’s Committee on Finance and Investment that unanimously scuttled a deal that would have kept the stations operating. That vote also prevented the entire board from considering the issue. To their credit, Penn State’s administration had worked diligently with sister station ...