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Who is Rep Thompson actually representing?

Ron Williams Pennsylvania Furnace Pennsylvania’s 15th congressional district, our district, is one very large and very rural district. Its elected representative is Glen GT Thompson. Over 200,000 of his constituents are currently receiving Medicaid benefits in this district. That appeared to be of little concern to Rep Thompson, however, when he voted for Trump’s billionaire tax cut bill. The bill is expected to cause over 10 million people to lose their Medicaid coverage. How many of our family members, friends and neighbors will be among them? To add insult to injury, the ...

Republican spending bill

George Polycranos Port Matilda Many Americans make hard budgeting decisions every day understanding that living on credit while spending more than you earn is simply not sustainable. So why are Congressional Republicans OK with a spending bill that explodes our nation’s already staggering $32.2 trillion national debt? Taxpayers are currently spending more each year on interest than for our national defense. Economists warn that increasing the national debt at this time will jeopardize our nation’s ability to respond to real future crises such as wars, pandemics, and natural ...

At it again…

Sam Stea Cogan Station Not only does Trump want to destroy Harvard, the National Institute of Health and NATO, he’s gone after Tesla, one of the greatest American companies ever founded. Is this the “Golden Age” or just plain stupidity? Whatever it is, China and Russia couldn’t be more pleased.

The Truth shall set you free

James “Butch” Knauff North Bend I am one of the many residents in our area who has been attacked by a certain private Facebook group. I am a KCSD board member, and I missed several school board meetings while I was in the ICU fighting illness last year. The group tried to smear me due to my absence, and, I believe, because of my political beliefs. I was removed from the group, and at one point I was told that a bullseye was even placed over my photo in one of their posts. I wasn’t given the opportunity to defend myself to the members of the group, and my daughter was also ...

Mass transit money moves

Jayson Massey Philadelphia The constituents of Senator Dush have sent many correspondence regarding increased funding of SEPTA, and I’d like to clear up some things that were stated in a letter that may have been sent to you. First, the Commonwealth’s budget has a surplus due in no small part to the General Assembly’s systematic underfunding of programs such as public transit and public education. The mass transit deficit is there throughout the country. Bloomberg states that there is a $6 billion ongoing budget deficit for American mass transit. That is the fault of many ...

Why Congress must not pull the plug on Pennsylvania’s clean energy progress

Lisa Richardson State College On May 22, the House of Representatives voted to pass a budget bill that drastically cuts America’s clean energy tax credits. I’m disappointed to see that the House advanced this legislation. Make no mistake: These cuts will hurt Pennsylvania if they go on to become law. Experts are already warning that these changes would raise energy costs for American households, increase pollution and threaten growing economic investments in the Commonwealth. The House passage of this bill just put these investments at risk. Federal tax credits—designed ...