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Who asked for this?

Tim Mannello Williamsport In a recent opening monologue, Seth Meyers gave a good summary of why Trump’s national poll ratings after the first 100 days of his second term in 2025 are lower than the previous low for any other president’s first 100 days... his own first 100 days in 2021. According to Meyers, President Trump has busied himself by: — threatening judges and detaining students for their political opinions — defying Supreme Court orders — dismantling Social Security — eliminating food safety inspections — cutting cancer research — ...

Bogus child deportation claims

David Kveragas Newton Township, Lacklawanna County Recently activists supporting illegal immigrants have tried to make an issue of children born here to illegal alien parents are being “deported” with their parents. As Secretary Rubio clearly explained, these children, having been born on US soil are US citizens and can stay here if the parents so choose and make proper arrangements. Their departure is solely the choice of the parents. Most foreign nations, as well as the US, consider children born to citizens while in another nation as citizens. If say a Mexican national, ...

Unusual state

Tom McCarey Berwyn, Pa. Pennsylvania is an unusual state in the way legislation is passed. The politicians can introduce a bill, it can be heard in a day or two and it can pass out of committee immediately to be put up for a vote. It’s not a very transparent process. It’s a real inside club where the lobbyists, especially the lobbyists for the ticket camera companies, get in there, they can put the fix in and there’s no chance for the people to have any say in this. The process makes it impossible for the public to engage on proposed bills. Pennsylvania is one of the ...

National debt in the US

Fred Bucheit Howard In Monday’s Express, Arthur Keller of Beavertown informed us of the recklessness of the Democratic Party because of the increase of the national debt under Democratic presidents. But his article was not really to inform but to play politics. He could have mentioned that one of President Donald Trump’s “lesser known but profoundly damaging legacies will be the explosive rise in the national debt that occurred on his watch. The financial burden that he’s inflicted on our government will wreak havoc for decades, saddling our kids and grandkids with debt. ...

Ensure America keeps investing in rural Pennsylvania

Philip J. Vonada South Williamsport Our small towns and rural communities are the backbone of Pennsylvania in many ways, but politicians in Washington are putting them at risk. Right now, Congress is considering deep cuts to programs like Medicaid and SNAP, vital lifelines that keep hospitals open and food on the table for thousands of families right here in Pennsylvania’s 15th Congressional District. It’s essential for us in District 15 to understand how these programs enrich North-Central Pennsylvania and reclaim the wealth Washington has been extracting for years. We know ...

Open letter to the ACS board, staff, council and members

Howard Peters, Ph.D., J.D. Cupertino, Calif. Why are the American Chemistry Society (ACS) and chemistry almost “missing in action” this May 2025 in Columbus Ohio at the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), the world’s largest high school science fair? Yes, the same Columbus Ohio headquarters of ACS’s largest profit center, CAS. Questions? Have I become a motley fool? Don’t many of us have technical training that discerns the difference between the truth and a good joke? Can only a motley fool speak the truth to the king or queen without retribution? ...