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CU-Clearfield closure not justified

Stanley Berard Lock Haven In the several weeks since it was announced, I have been trying to understand the decision to close the Clearfield campus of Commonwealth University, but I still cannot explain it. In announcing the decision to the CU community, President Bashar Hanna highlighted that in the last five years at Clearfield “the average annual operating deficit has been more than $1.6M.” As shared with the CU community, this average deficit figure is based on average total revenues (tuition, fees and state appropriation) of $2.86 million and average “total ...

Protecting our troops

Kathryn V. McFate Loganton The current debacle about our government officials releasing information about top secret data is another example of Trump’s choices in his cabinet. Hegseth initiated all of this, has placed targets on our military peoples backs and put them in harm’s way. All of those people who endangered our military who were on that app need to go. They are a bunch of liars, inept and unsuitable for any office in the government. Radcliff, Gabbard and Hegseth lied and tried to weasel out of the things they did. And their leader Trump says he knows nothing ...

Are speed cameras an enforcement-for-profit racket?

Tom McCarey Berwyn 90% of Pa.’s posted speed limits are 8 to 16 mph below the average safe speeds that the super-majority of drivers travel (Federal Highway Administration data). That turns most drivers into wanton “speeders” liable for a $170+ citation. That’s what the camera promoters are banking on, literally. Put a speed camera on a road with a low-posted limit and millions of dollars will flow like water into Harrisburg’s coffers, and onto camera makers’ bottom line. This is all because Harrisburg refuses to enforce a provision in Title 75, Pa.’s Traffic ...

It takes time to bring down a great democracy

Kimball Shinkoskey Woods Cross Those of us who have studied the history of Rome know that you can’t debauch a democratic republic overnight. Many Democrats think Trump did it by issuing some hundred Executive Orders, give or take, on “day one” of his new administration. Truth is, it takes not just 100 decrees but more like 100 years or more to bring down a great democracy. One good marker for the start of America’s century of constitutional decline might be set at 1915, a 100 years before Donald Trump arrived on the scene in 2015. In 1915, it was ironically the ...

KCSD administration — Off to a great start (So, what’s the problem?)

Richard Wykoff Lock Haven This message is written out of frustration and concern regarding what many of the friends of Keystone Central School District and residents of Clinton County are feeling regarding the turmoil that is being generated at school board meetings by a sub-set of board members. While this is not new, it is especially counter-productive at this time when we all need to pull together for the survival of our families and our community. School board members have a big responsibility as community leaders, to be worthy of everyone’s respect. Not an easy task, but a ...

‘Who is the Worst?’

Buchanan Ewing Cambridge, Mass. Chief Justice John Roberts has orchestrated three laws at the center of our deteriorating democracy: Citizens United (without a monetary limit), the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and United States v. Donald Trump. Who will be judged the worst? Benedict Arnold for turning coat and leading British soldiers against his former fellow Americans, John Wilkes Booth who killed President Lincoln because he didn’t like the impending end to slavery, or Chief Justice John Roberts and his conservative majority, who stopped two-and-a-half centuries of increasing ...