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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 ...

How are you feeling now?

JIM HIRONIMUS White Hall I am not a middle or lower class Republican who voted for Trump and therefore do not have to deal with the fact he has broken his campaign promises! Sadly he just wanted their votes and has not delivered. He has taken away many benefits that will only hurt 99% of his base. I don’t know if they should start taking Advil or drink more Bourbon or whatever they fancy to deal with the fact they got lied to. Hopefully Trump will not totally ruin our Democracy, but it looks like that will happen. His ICE agents that he just got a big influx of money in his ...

Summer 2025: Preparation is Power

ANDREW E. DEHOFF, P.E. Harrisburg As I write this, the horror of the devastating flash floods in Central Texas continues to unfold. While we’re not directly involved with flood rescue and recovery efforts, at times like this, we’re reminded of the critical importance of our flood risk management work here in the Susquehanna River Basin. We work in partnership with communities repeatedly impacted by significant flood events to expand local flood warning and response capabilities through a combination of advanced monitoring data, tailored forecast information, and decision support ...

Tax bill passes the buck

Fred Bucheit Howard It is astonishing that a fellow would compliment the Big Beautiful Bill as something “pretty good if you really look at what was actually in it...” For those of us who have actually looked at it, it is nothing but a giant turd. That bill strips away so many of the pieces of a safety net that helps people at the bottom, and delivers trillions of dollars in tax breaks for those at the top. Can GT Thompson read? He is a business man and understands debt. This bill will add trillions to our debt and is a bomb set to go off some years down the road when our ...