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Best liar to date

Jim Hironimus White Hall In less than a month, the President of our United States has lied about all the promises that got him elected. The Republican party, as a whole, are scared to death to challenge him or call him out. He has not lowered any prices. He actually will raise them after his tariffs come in. He has looked at Medicare and Medicaid and SSI. Now they are looking at Veterans benefits. These were all things he promised to not touch. He did give his rich billionaire friends the tax breaks he promised them. Where are the middle and lower class Americans getting ...

Make China Great Again, Mr. President

Sam Stea Cogan Station Sure, inflation will likely be reduced by pumping and burning more fossil fuel, but, a sober assessment of our president’s domestic and foreign policies can be made right now. 1) Alienating our allies with territorial claims on Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal. 2) Betrayal of our wartime ally Ukraine, in favor of Putin. 3) Cutting funding to The NIH, thereby kneecapping medical and science research. 4) Endorsing the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Why would any nation, friend or foe, respect us after all this? It seems to me that with ...

Call Your Representative

Kathleen O’Connell Lemont Here’s a Valentine’s Day Resolution: call your legislators. Let them know that you love, or are dismayed by, their policies. Elected officials work for you, even if you did not vote for them. That’s how representative government works! When you call, consider using the “4 B’s” approach: — Be prepared. Write brief notes to yourself which you can consult during the call. — Be specific. A “kitchen sink” list of complaints is less effective than mentioning one or two issues you support or dislike. — Be sure to include why ...

Quit ignoring Pa.’s wild turkey population

George Geisler, Jr. Camp Hill The perverted priorities of the PA Game Commission (PGC) are, once again, illustrated by their stocking a quarter million non-indigenous pheasants, yet they have done absolutely nothing to restore the disappearing indigenous wild turkey population. In a Popular Science magazine article in 2017, the PGC turkey biologist admitted that the agency had no idea that the eastern wild turkey population was dramatically decreasing in Penns Woods. That absolutely amazes me because we could see the gradual disappearance of the turkeys over the last seven years ...

Security clearance needed?

Kimball Shinkoskey Woods Cross Does Elon Musk have the proper security clearances for access to agency personnel records and government payment systems? Of course he does. People have forgotten the new theory of presidential authorization floated up in the classified documents case. Any and every document is declassified as soon as the president says it is. In today’s federal government, there is no paperwork required, no accountability channels to clear, just the president’s word. Even sweeping national policies can be enacted in one breath today and taken away in one ...

Renovo’s Favorite Son

Bob Shank Renovo On Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025, the town laid to rest one of its storied citizens. Now there have been many a great man that have hailed from this remote little town. From business owners and politicians, such as Marks, Sockmans, Pagnottos and the Rosamilias. There have been many great athletes and coaches this town has embraced. From Friel, Flores, Logue, Walsh, to the Greenes, Markerts, Burroughs and Morgans. Those individuals and many others have been the pride and legacy of this community’s rich history. However, I do not say this lightly when I tell you that they ...