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Letters to the editor

The danger is real

David B. Kyle New Columbia Numerous individuals have issued warnings about the potential dangers of a second Donald Trump presidency. Members of the news media, political analysts, and even reasonable Republicans have all been predicting how our country and democracy, and indeed the world, ...

Our First Insurrection

Jerome Abbott Loganton On April 12, 1861, a United States military installation known as Fort Sumpter in Charleston, S.C., was successfully assaulted and destroyed. That insurrection lasted four years and cost about 600,000 lives. By April 15, 1865, Lincoln was dead and his re-election ...

Let’s reward bad behavior

Kimball Shinkoskey Woods Cross A judge fined Trump a puny $9,000 for contempt of court during his Manhattan hush money/business crime/election interference trial. This, after the former President has already done an incalculable amount of damage to the justice system. Does the judge think ...

Morally indefensible

HARLAN BERGER Pleasant Gap How many times have I heard, “There oughta be a law against it.” Suppose there was national legislation that apportioned all cleanup and damage expenses of protests among the protesters and their managers? Go on, smash and smear, strew the grounds with ...

Keeping us informed

FRED BUCHEIT Howard Please, read The (Lock Haven) Express every day. It is a good newspaper run by competent and dedicated people. It is a good source of information and without that, the community will languish in nonsense. One of the primary duties of citizenship is to be broadly ...

Newsletter fails the honesty test

Julie Gittings State College Month after month, Representative Glenn Thompson’s “newsletter” parrots false and misleading claims propagated by today’s Republican Party. Thompson, who betrayed his oath of office when he voted to overturn Pennsylvania’s results in the 2020 election, ...