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Letters to the editor

Religious extremism in coalition with political extremism in America

Kimball Shinkoskey Woods Cross, Utah Americans have been slow to wake up to the fact that religious extremism is a form of political extremism. Religious authoritarianism substitutes the decision-making of a private religious clique for the decision-making of the people’s public ...

Cutting social security

Joan Heller Beech Creek Seniors: Can you live with less or no Social Security and Medicare? “Phoning into CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box,’ Trump was pressed on how he plans to resolve the long-term solvency problems of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. “So first of all, there is a ...

Women in charge

Patricia Yohe Lock Haven Men are still afraid of women having power so Nikki Haley does not have a chance. They are afraid of having a woman president. They should be afraid of Trump’s friendship with Putin. Do you want to be under Russian rules? Or Chinese? I would still vote ...

The Fourteenth Amendment

Richard A. Morris Lock Haven In determining unanimously that the Colorado Supreme Court erred in ruling that Donald Trump was not eligible to appear on the state’s primary ballot for President, the US Supreme Court appears to have departed from its usual practice of giving primacy to the ...

Not a surprise, but a disappointment

Timothy L. Bittner Beech Creek This letter is in response to Mr. Desmond’s letter in the March 6 edition of The Express titled “Five generations of trout fishing comes to an end.” I like that you have generations of family that enjoyed fishing at Baker Run and helped the Fish ...

Compromised by debt

Karen Stoehr State College Donald Trump’s legal debts are a danger to national security. He has demonstrated clearly that he will not use his own checkbook to pay for them. Instead, he solicits money from his supporters and others. This leaves him open to leverage from any billionaire, ...