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Rural areas lag behind in cancer treatment and prevention – even as rich, urban areas increasingly leave dying from cancer in the rearview

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Cancer in the United States experienced a dramatic turnaround in 1991. Prior to that year, cancer deaths had been increasing for decades, peaking at 215 deaths per 100,000 people, meaning about 1 in 4 deaths were attributed to cancer. Then it began to consistently decline, decreasing by 34% between 1991 and 2022. This amounted to an estimated 4.5 million fewer cancer deaths during that period. When the second-most frequent cause of death in the nation begins to decline, the effects are considerable. Improvements in cancer screening, treatment and prevention have led to increases in ...

Trump’s three retreats

Columns

President Trump has been musing about whether he’s the most powerful man in world history, and judging by the results lately, the answer is definitely “no.” It’s certainly true that Trump has technical tools at his disposal that would have astounded famous pre-20th century contenders for the title of most powerful man, whether Caesar, Alexander the Great, Charlemagne or Napoleon. Trump’s power, though, isn’t defined by, say, the precision and explosive punch of the Tomahawk missile. As the leader of a constitutional republic that disperses power and depends ultimately on ...

Dear Annie: The marriage ledger

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Dear Annie: I am middle-aged and lost my job during the pandemic when the company I had been with for years eliminated my position. Despite my experience and education, I have not been able to find anything permanent or full-time since. I feel like I am too old to be hired and too young to retire. My husband and I live in an economically repressed region with a limited job market, and he refuses to leave his job and relocate, despite offers and interest from other companies in more lucrative areas and my pleas over the years to leave this one-horse town. He is also not interested in ...

Accountability

Letters to the editor

Sam Stea Williamsport For God’s sake! It wasn’t vandals that turned the Reflecting Pool slime green. It was your cronyism and misjudgment. It wasn’t the Iranians that killed 120 of their own schoolchildren. It was the Tomahawk Missile that you launched. Be a man, not a toddler. Accept responsibility, if not for yourself, then for the sake of The Nation. Leaving behind one single truth is a far better legacy than all the stone monuments to yourself that you can muster, the Nobel prize and your head on Mount Rushmore, all put together.

Response to LH meeting story

Letters to the editor

James Sikorski, Jr. Wapwallopen The recent Lock Haven meeting story showed some inaccurate information at the meeting. In Pennsylvania, municipal police have many tools to enforce speed limits, so there is no need for radar. The council should be promoting 85th percentile speed limits, which are required. Proper speed limits equal maximum safety and compliance. Also, noise complaints have absolutely nothing to do with enforcing speed limits. A car or motorcycle can be sitting still, yet emit an incredible amount of noise.

“40 acres and a mule” — Black reparation

Letters to the editor

Arthur Keller Beavertown Have you ever heard the story of the phrase “40 acres and a mule?” Although I enjoy history, I couldn’t recall this story. This was the first attempt to provide a form of reparations to newly freed slaves after the Civil War. Astonishingly radical, it called for the federal government to confiscate 400,000 acres of private property from Confederate landowners and methodically redistribute it to former black slaves. How did this all come about? General William T. Sherman and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton met with 20 leaders of the black community, ...