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‘Is the U.S. a corrupt country?’

Randolph Hudson State College Yesterday, my grandson asked me if we lived in a corrupt country. I replied that national corruption is tracked independently by Transparency.org. Every year, top “honest” nations and regions are Scandinavia, the UK, Singapore and most European countries. The U.S. is up there, too. So far. At the bottom, in Russia, you get “telephone justice.” If you go to court, judges are assigned. They negotiate the outcome in advance based on your wealth, connections and who’s paid what to whom. Calls are made. Then, a quick trial and your ...

Eat the tariffs?

Rick Thomas Lewisburg Walmart CEO Doug McMillon recently announced that the Trump tariffs would force the company to raise prices on American customers — starting as soon as this month and continuing into the summer. The President’s response? He told Walmart (in ALL CAPS) to “EAT THE TARIFFS.” For months, Trump told Americans that foreign manufacturers, not American consumers, would pay the cost of the tariffs. Business leaders, economists and basic arithmetic flashed red light warnings, but the President stuck to his story. We now know that he was wrong. Horribly, ...

Take yer time

Kimball Shinkoskey Woods Cross Many Democrats have decided to wait out Trump and do their best to get back to the White House in 2028. That’s the strategy ancient democrats adopted when Julius Caesar came to power in Rome. They were still waiting for their turn back in power 500 years later when the Roman emperors were finally overthrown by the barbarians. Our ancestors did more than just sit on their hands and say “pretty please” to the British king. There is no need for violence today, but there is plenty of need for courage. There is also a need for rapid and ...

GOP seeks to murder the disabled

Paul Nelson Tonawanda There’s no point in sugar coating it. I’m afraid you can’t simply ignore the latest federal budget and hope things will get better. Mike Johnson and the GOP, along with Trump, Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos, our best-known oligarchs, want to murder a large quantity of the population. As a severely autistic adult, my son needs structure and activity. His day program provides that. Millions of disabled Americans and their families depend on these programs in order to survive. They provide a safe environment for the disabled person to participate in activities ...

PA Senate Bill 349 wrongheaded

Dan Alters and Dorothy Blair Boalsburg Disdain for alternative energy sources, especially solar energy, is a widely held mindset among conservative politicians. These politicians offer baseless false narratives about solar and wind power generation that media outlets find difficult to effectively counter. Alternative energy, particularly renewables such as solar and wind, are increasingly competitive with traditional fossil fuels. This is why conservative politicians relentlessly malign alternative energy. It should come as no surprise that politicians who vote to maintain the ...

Presidential Oath, or not?

Marilyn Goldfarb Boalsburg President Trump betrayed his oath of office by pretending not to understand his job. In January 2025 (and January 2017), Trump took the Presidential oath, pledging allegiance to the Constitution: “I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, so help me God.” Less than four months later, Trump either forgot his solemn obligation—or never meant it. When asked by ...