Bob Shank Renovo To the few individuals who felt the need to shout “Communists,” and boo at the candidates on a political float during the Memorial Day parade, you were not acting patriotic but instead showed yourselves to be clueless clowns. What you didn't know was that many who ...

Lillie Langlois Cummings Township Just five months into the new school board director term, Harry Brungard is leading the charge to close Salladasburg — again. He served on the school board a decade ago, and voted to close Nippenose Elementary School in the summer of 2013. Now, as ...

Jim Newton Itasca People still wonder how politics, personalities and religion have become such a volatile mix in the last decade. Politics and religion have always been “enter-at-your-own-risk” topics, but differing opinions used to coexist with tolerance. We didn’t pre-hate people ...

Tim Mannello Williamsport The question no longer is: “Can it happen here? “The question is: “Is it already too late to stop?” Is full-fledged authoritarianism inevitable in the United States? The House of Representatives and the Senate are too broken to pass legislation which pits ...

Linda Barton State College Donald Trump has been described as a present-day Svengali, using his impressive skills of persuasion to control the thinking of gullible voters. Another literary analogy is the Pied Piper of Hamelin, who charmed the rats of Hamelin and led them into the Weser ...

Donald Moskowitz Londonderry, N.H. The turmoil and disruptions on college campuses by pro-Hamas sympathizers, and anti-Israel and anti-American anarchists plus the late and weak Biden response, will help Republicans, including Trump, in upcoming elections. Recent polls reflect this ...