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Response to LH meeting story

James Sikorski, Jr. Wapwallopen The recent Lock Haven meeting story showed some inaccurate information at the meeting. In Pennsylvania, municipal police have many tools to enforce speed limits, so there is no need for radar. The council should be promoting 85th percentile speed limits, which are required. Proper speed limits equal maximum safety and compliance. Also, noise complaints have absolutely nothing to do with enforcing speed limits. A car or motorcycle can be sitting still, yet emit an incredible amount of noise.

Accountability

Sam Stea Williamsport For God’s sake! It wasn’t vandals that turned the Reflecting Pool slime green. It was your cronyism and misjudgment. It wasn’t the Iranians that killed 120 of their own schoolchildren. It was the Tomahawk Missile that you launched. Be a man, not a toddler. Accept responsibility, if not for yourself, then for the sake of The Nation. Leaving behind one single truth is a far better legacy than all the stone monuments to yourself that you can muster, the Nobel prize and your head on Mount Rushmore, all put together.

The clock keeps ticking

Carl Evensen Port Matilda In Manhattan, on a wall not far from Times Square, the debt clock ticks higher and higher. After climbing for so many years with no obvious economic fallout, it’s easy to ignore. Indeed, the clock was moved from its location on a busy street corner to a quiet passageway. The reality is that we really don’t have a “debt ceiling.” It’s a political creation with no fundamental economic meaning. No other country has one. But we do need a political solution, and many politicians have been concerned about our growing debt for a long time. They thought ...

“40 acres and a mule” — Black reparation

Arthur Keller Beavertown Have you ever heard the story of the phrase “40 acres and a mule?” Although I enjoy history, I couldn’t recall this story. This was the first attempt to provide a form of reparations to newly freed slaves after the Civil War. Astonishingly radical, it called for the federal government to confiscate 400,000 acres of private property from Confederate landowners and methodically redistribute it to former black slaves. How did this all come about? General William T. Sherman and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton met with 20 leaders of the black community, ...

Happy Birthday America

Robert Rodkey Julian This fledgling nation a mere 250 years ago has arisen to be the most powerful nation in the world, both militarily and economically. The United States of America is the economic engine that pulls the world’s economic train. The USA is the greatest country with the most freedoms of any land on the face of this planet. How can this be? Terry Prachett said, “If you don’t know where you came from, then you don’t know where you are, and if you don’t know where you are, then you don’t know where you are going.” The point being in relation to our ...

Another self-inflicted wound

Tim Mannello Williamsport Donald J. Trump’s war with Iran has already hurt ordinary Americans. Now his administration is floating another idea that would deliver yet another self-inflicted wound on all of us: shutting down customs inspections at sanctuary city airports. That move would hit even harder, and regular people would feel the impact first. The economic hit would slam everyday life. Local economies would slow almost overnight. Medicine, electronics, auto parts and fresh food would sit in warehouses instead of reaching stores. Hospitals would wait for supplies that ...