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Take a Breath, Pennsylvania

Karen Elias Lock Haven As the furor grows around AI, cryptocurrency and their rapidly proliferating data centers, Pennsylvania is looking like the kid on the playground, waving his hand frantically out of a desperate desire to get a spot on the team. A high degree of uncertainty exists regarding AI’s energy demands. Remember when a single computer filled an entire room at IBM? Now we wear computers on our wrists. The recent announcement that China has produced a model (called DeepSeek) that outperforms Open AI, which is smaller and more efficient with lower energy requirements, ...

What is GT thinking?

Paul Washington Mill Hall The Republicans in Congress recently passed a budget blueprint that would require reductions in spending on Medicaid and/or Medicare. Our representative, Glenn “GT” Thompson, voted for that blueprint, and has consistently supported initiatives to limit Medicaid and Medicare funding. He has also been quite supportive of the recent personnel cuts in those programs, and of the personnel cuts in the V.A., all to save a fraction of 1% of the Federal budget, even though anyone who uses the services knows that those bureaucracies were already ...

Endorsing Leslie Clukey for County Treasurer

Patricia A. Edwards Mill Hall Clinton County voters voting by mail-in ballot or at the polls on Tuesday, May 20, have an excellent choice for their next Clinton County Treasurer — Leslie D. Clukey. Leslie Clukey is well qualified with 38 years of financial experience, plus excellent leadership and managerial skills. She has a strong work ethic and a proven reputation for getting things done accurately and on time. Leslie Clukey is able to work effectively with members of the public. She will run an efficient county treasurer’s office in a professional, friendly and timely ...

Rebuild our merchant marine

Donald Moskowitz Londonderry, NH President Trump plans to revive the U.S. maritime ship building industry, including levying tariffs and fees on Chinese ships entering American ports. Now Congress must pass the SHIPS Act, which will increase our ship building capacity and hopefully the size of our merchant marine. It could also provide economies of scale and expertise to rebuild our Navy. Since WWII the U.S. has had a steady decline in U.S. flagged merchant ships from about 50% of the world’s cargo shipping to about 1% today. Our merchant marine has less than 10,000 mariners ...

Eliminate antisemitism, embrace DEI

Sheri Berenbaum State College Trump’s dual rampage against antisemitism and DEI (diversity, equality and inclusion) is both phony and dangerous. Eliminating antisemitism is only possible if we embrace DEI. DEI represents our country’s decades-long effort to create a just and equal society, fulfilling our founding principles, codified in our anti-discrimination civil rights laws. Put simply, DEI is about promoting the fair treatment and full participation of all people in a world increasingly plagued with power imbalances. — “Diversity” — welcoming differences in ...

Actually, he can’t do that

Randolph Hudson State College Executive orders can be legal, constitutional and smart. Unfortunately, Donald Trump has signed a blizzard of “Executive Orders” that are illegal, unconstitutional, and stupid. Courts are rightfully striking them down one after another. A president cannot use executive orders to bypass laws made by Congress. A president cannot use executive orders to shutter or gut federal agencies created by Congress. A president cannot use executive orders to defy the Constitution, as Trump’s “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American ...