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Clean Energy Tax Credits: Use them or lose them

Richard W. Jones State College The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” is expected to raise electricity rates between six and 11 percent for residential, commercial and industrial customers in Pennsylvania. So says Energy Innovation, a think tank. That’s due to the loss of low-cost renewables and the resulting increase in gas prices. “As deployment of new energy resources and advanced manufacturing decline under the bill, Pennsylvania will lose out on significant planned private investment,” Energy Innovation reports. “We forecast annual losses of $2.3 billion in GDP by ...

Open letter to Congress

Robert H. Workman Lock Haven What are you doing? You do realize that once Trump has taken complete control, you will be out of a job anyway. You know how he really is. You have allowed him to take your powers away at an alarming rate. Do you really believe you will have jobs once he has complete control? He’s using you to get what he wants and when you are no longer needed, goodbye. You are not representing your constituents. You are representing your own self-preservation and making this once great country a dictatorship. You know this is his intention, yet you continue to ...

‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’

Diane Mills Lock Haven “Nothing Gold Can Stay Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.” —Robert Frost, 1923 Robert Frost wrote this poem in 1923, and he was awarded the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry the following year. This spring, while perusing a small book store in Tarrytown, N.Y., I purchased “The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness and Joy,” edited by John Brehm. My intention was ...

Thompson’s misplaced focus

Jane Rinard State College Representative “GT” Thompson attacks his constituents while ignoring significant problems facing our country. In his recent newsletter, Thompson’s only “bad” news was that his office was “defaced” by “an obscene sign” posted on the door. He included a photo of the offending senior citizen. Rather than address the message in the sign, Thompson whined about the protester. Without evidence, he blamed the Centre County Democratic Committee, whose members participate in protests at his office, along with other groups. In reality, there was a ...

Republicans subsidize private jets, Not health care

Ed Satalia State College Americans will pay a lot more for health insurance next year according to analysis from KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group. Those who buy insurance through the Affordable Care Act will see premiums rise an average of 75%. This includes millions of Americans who don’t have employer-sponsored insurance and don’t qualify for Medicaid or Medicare. Insurance companies attribute the price hikes to the end of government subsidies, which helped drive the uninsured rate to a historical low. Higher costs will lead many healthy people to take their ...

Liars

Sam Stea Cogan Station If two blatant and bald-faced liars strike a deal, shake on it and sign it, does that agreement hold water? And if those liars are two of the most powerful people on the planet, should the rest of the world comply? Character does matter. Unfortunately, the brave people of Ukraine may pay the price of our forgetting it.