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John Lipez

Michael Rendos Lock Haven Kudos to Lock Haven city council for facilitating the upgrade of the Taggart Park baseball field along Park Street and naming the diamond after a long time area youth and high school baseball supporter, John Lipez. As Mayor Long stated, “John Lipez has been this generation’s ultimate “voice” of youth and high school athletics.” Broadcasting athletic events is a labor of love for John, and he is unmatched in his style and presentation. Listening to John describe a youth baseball playoff game, and the listener might think it was the seventh ...

Thompson misrepresents the budget bill and PA-15

Debbie Meder Lock Haven Representative “GT” Thompson doesn’t represent his constituents. He doesn’t even respect us — as revealed in his highly selective and partisan newsletter and his stance on the recently passed budget bill. While he claims the bill benefits his district and calls it a “game-changer” for rural America, key parts of the bill are a gut-punch to rural Pennsylvanians. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the richest households will gain $12,000 annually while the poorest will lose $1,600. Notably, middle-income taxpayers are likely to ...

But hey…

Ron Williams PA Furnace Clean water is absolutely essential to life. And water scarcity is a growing problem globally. By 2050 half the world’s population may no longer have safe water supplies. But hey…first we need to end peaceful protesting, with violence if necessary. Our atmosphere, which we treat as vast and invulnerable, is actually shockingly thin and fragile. Without it life on Earth isn’t possible. This protective layer is clearly thinning out as a result of the burning of fossil fuels. But hey…let’s not get derailed from the urgent task of defaming and ...

Where do you stand now, Representative Borowicz?

Paul Nelson Tonawanda, NY Dear Stephanie Borowicz, Five years ago, you and your MAGA followers drove me and my autistic son out of Pennsylvania. We are happy in New York state. It’s a different planet. People in our area are friendly and intelligent. They don’t worship a wannabe dictator/con man, who was rightly convicted of 34 counts of fraud, rapes women, throws even perfectly LEGAL immigrants in death camps and allegedly has had sex with underage girls. Aren’t you just the perfect little Christian? It NEVER should have come to this.

Oh, the inhumanity

Tim Cowan Julian Think of the United States of America as that big, beautiful blimp, the Hindenburg airship in 1937, admired by everyone looking up to it everywhere it passed. The whole world admired the innovation and accomplishment it had come to represent. A spark ignited the gases that kept the big, beautiful blimp aloft and it was destroyed along with more than half of the people aboard. The big, ugly, destructive, Republican budget bill is like the spark that started the fire that destroyed the Hindenburg. The structure is consumed and no longer supports the lives of the ...

More territory for the US?

KIMBALL SHINKOSKEY Woods Cross, Utah Trump making loud noises about adding more territory to the U.S. President Trump has been making loud noises about annexing new territory to the United States. There are two ways to do this: the democratic-republican way, requiring constitutional legal processes to be followed, and the authoritarian way, which just requires force. For example, number 47 has talked about taking over Greenland, retaking the Panama Canal zone, and even adding Canada as the 51st state. He has also brought up the subject of “taking” or “owning” the Gaza ...