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Renovo, Pa. — My Hometown

Dave Dowling Wellsboro This is a huge shout out to “everyone” involved in the ongoing fight to help keep Renovo looking beautiful. The latest project is the new Renovo signs stationed at the west end of town and at East Renovo. These new signs will greet visitors, tourists and future ...

Words matter

Jennifer Jewell Bellefonte Words Matter. Centre Region Down Syndrome Society would like to encourage you to delete the R-word from your vocabulary. I know, I grew up in the 80’s. It may be a habit, but it’s a painful slur that marginalizes people with disabilities, like hate language against any minority group. Instead, choose inclusion and respect. Join the Pledge to End the Word. My personal story: When my son entered kindergarten, the school psychologist sat with me and shared his testing results. She said, I am sorry but the state of Pennsylvania still requires this ...

The price of a few feathers

Sam Stea Cogan Station Putin was holding out all along for exactly what happened, the re-election of DJT. If Trump stood up against him, the war would have been won in favor of Ukraine. Instead, we are left with the collapse of an European ally, a potential humanitarian catastrophe beyond comprehension and our credibility down the tubes, all for a few ruffled feathers of our idiot king! This is not Trump’s self-proclaimed genius. This is one man’s pure, unadulterated stupidity on a scale never before seen in human history.

The chilling truth

Tom Bruce Boalsburg Leave it to a Canadian to perfectly sum up what’s happening here in the US. This is what Andrew Coyne, columnist from the Toronto Globe and Mail, wrote about Trump. “Nothing mattered, in the end. Not the probable dementia, the unfathomable ignorance, the emotional incontinence; not, certainly, the shambling, hate-filled campaign, or the ludicrously unworkable anti-policies. The candidate out on bail in four jurisdictions, the convicted fraud artist, the adjudicated rapist and serial sexual predator, the habitual bankrupt, the stooge of Vladimir Putin, the ...

Our economy is in jeopardy

Donald Moskowitz Londonderry, NH President Trump has some good policies, but his economic policy is a disaster, and it is fraught with potential danger. His on again off again tariffs on imports, trashing of federal departments and agencies, federal employee firings and elimination of various federal programs is causing havoc within our economy. The uncertainty is promoting jitters among consumers and could provide a pullback in consumer spending and business and industry investments, which could lead to a recession. Consumer confidence plummeted in February with its largest monthly ...

How do we MAGA correctly?

Kimball Shinkoskey Woods Cross How do we make America great again? I love the idea of making America great again. I just can’t see it happening the way today’s MAGA leader is doing it. Do we Make America Great Again by demonizing brown skinned immigrants and secretly trying to make America white again? America was once great because we welcomed immigrants of all types and empowered people of color through our civil rights movement. Do we Make America Great Again by suppressing vaccines for school children? No, America became great in large part because she assured a 95% ...