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Water Co. vs 4th Amendment

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Jeffrey Kreitz Lock Haven Let me start by saying, I understand that we need to conserve our water supply, but not as this new plan states. The Lock Haven Water Co. should check with their legal department. What they are suggesting is a violation of our civil rights and the 4th amendment that protects us from illegal search. You have no right spying on anyone. You do not need to know when my wife or I ror my underage children or grandchildren are taking a bath, a shower or, for Heaven’s sake, using the toilet. That almost sounds perverted to me. If you want to conserve water how ...

Dear Annie: Balancing respect in an interfaith relationship

Columns

Dear Annie: I never thought I would be writing to an advice column, but here I am, because my heart is full and my mind is spinning. I am a Catholic woman in my early 30s, and I have fallen deeply in love with a wonderful man who is Jewish. He is kind, thoughtful, funny and steady in a way that makes me feel safe. He remembers the little things, calls my mother “ma’am” and once drove two hours to help my brother when his car broke down. In every way that matters day to day, he is the kind of partner I always hoped to find. The problem is that what matters “day to day” is ...

Trump’s Iran war not likely the jaunt he’s trying to sell

Columns

Here we go again. What else can one say to the stream of misinformation and disinformation flowing out of the White House and Pentagon since the war with Iran broke out? We have grown wearily familiar with President Trump’s cavalier relationship with the facts. Combine that with his tendency to snatch words out of the air, appropriately or not, and you come up with a jumble of head-scratchers. A leading example is his repeated oddball description of the Iran war as an “excursion,” which caused brows to furrow and eyeballs to roll in newsrooms around the planet. Excursion? ...

Let the sunshine in: Restore transparency to Pennsylvania government

Columns

National Sunshine Week, March 15-21, is a time to highlight the importance of open, transparent government and to call attention to actions that place those principles at risk. Pennsylvanians deserve to know what their elected school and township supervisor boards, borough councils and other agencies plan to discuss and vote on at public meetings. The Sunshine Act ensures that level of visibility. At least it did — until last year when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court opened the door for far more government business to occur without prior public notice. In a split ruling, the high ...

Why the HPV vaccine isn’t indicated past the age of 45

Columns

DEAR DR. ROACH: In a recent column, you mentioned that the HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine prevents neck and head cancer in men. I am 75 and do not recall ever getting an HPV vaccine. Should I get one now? — J.L.I. ANSWER: For many years, tobacco (smoking, snuff, chewing tobacco, etc.) was the biggest risk for head and neck cancer. But recently, HPV has become the leading cause of head and neck cancer, with 60% to 70% of all head and neck cancers being HPV-related. The HPV vaccine prevents several types of HPV from infecting a person and causing warts. Certain types of HPV ...

Our civilian-military bond is cracked

Columns

On Tuesday, TMZ published a story with a dramatic all-caps headline, “PETE HEGSETH BLEW BILLION$ ON FRUIT BASKETS, LOBSTER,” that was accompanied by a manufactured photo of the secretary of war surrounded by a bunch of plastic lobsters. The initial story was followed by several other “news” organizations repeating the claims. If you’ve never covered the military, or served in the military, or if you don’t have any family or friends in the military, this would appear to be a shocking story. But it’s not — not even remotely. It is a common practice for the Pentagon to ...