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Lost trust

Donald Mong Franklin, Pa. As a longtime Republican voter, my vote in this year’s election will be guided by the following: My family has been in America for over 200 years, and I have voted in Pennsylvania elections for 50 years. With redistricting, GT Thompson and Mike Kelly have served as my congressmen. Even if we occasionally disagreed on a particular policy, I always trusted my congressmen to respect my and other citizens’ right to determine which politicians would represent us. That trust ended when Congressmen Thompson and Kelly followed Donald Trump’s directions ...

In a second Trump term

Ron Williams Pennsylvania Furnace For anyone with remaining doubts, Trump and his legislative and judicial allies have produced a clear record portending what a second Trump term would look like. Envision the following. We will be subject to the law but President Trump won’t. Our society will become less civil as lies, bullying, and verbal attacks become normalized. The government will insert itself into our doctors’ offices, our bedrooms, and even tell us who we are permitted to be. Restrictions on the rights of gender, racial and religious minorities will ...

Please vote for Trump

Deborah Larner Vancouver, Wash. This is not about Abortion or a Woman President. It’s about world peace, the economy, and not having non-elected officials running our country (Industrial Military Complex, FBI, Media, and Tech…) The unknown person(s) who has been making decisions for this country for 3-1/2 years will continue to make the decisions if Harris wins the election. Pretending that Joe Biden has made important decisions is dangerous.

Policing in Renovo

Gene Bruno Renovo Chapman Township and Renovo Residents: The Renovo Police Department has been providing police services for years. Inflation has caused all costs to rise in recent years, including police budgets. In 2024, out of a $182,000 police budget, Chapman Twp. paid $26,000. Renovo currently has only two officers; one full-time and one part-time. Recruitment is a challenge in recent years nationwide, including here. Included in budgets are not only officer salaries, but all operating costs of the department to include fuel, vehicle maintenance, equipment and uniform ...

Four years ago

Joseph R. Fischer Northumberland When the question is, “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” Four years ago was 2020, seven months into the pandemic. The president at that time had suggested first that the whole thing was a hoax perpetrated by the Democrats. (It wasn’t), then claimed that the administration had the disease under control (They didn’t), and that we would fill the churches by Easter (We stayed home.) While the real scientists searched for a solution and hundreds of thousands of us died, the huckster-in-chief suggested injecting bleach ...

Vote for American principles

Mary Hague Lewisburg During the 15-plus years in the classroom teaching American Government, I used to pride myself on students stopping me at the end of the course to ask, “Are you a Republican or Democrat? We can’t tell.” I was registered as an independent, so committed was I to being fair to all my students, regardless of their partisan affiliation or affinity. Thoughtful, fact-based criticism of both parties’ platforms and policies was my job, as I saw it. My students were encouraged to take off their partisan glasses and to look as clearly as possible at the short ...