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Pope Leo’s flawed war doctrine

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Pope Leo XIV used part of his Palm Sunday message to castigate the United States for attempting to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power and threatening the world with mass destruction. In doing so, the “American Pope” confused the real enemy in the war. Addressing thousands in St. Peter’s Square, the Pope claimed that God rejects the prayers of leaders who wage war. He called the Iran war “atrocious” violence that cannot be justified by faith. He further said that God doesn’t hear the prayers of people whose “hands (are) full of blood.” Does he not include Iran’s ...

Response to radar bill story

Letters to the editor

James Sikorski, Jr. Wapwallopen The recent municipal police radar story missed all the key points. In addition to it’s stated goal, there is moving radar for state police, seeming requirements to lower speed limits, change calibration rules, and other goodies. Nobody ever seeks to compel compliance with current federal and state policies which are to post speed limits at the 85th percentile speed of traffic. If speed limits are widely ignored, then perhaps the speed limits need to be raised? That would make roads much safer. Pennsylvania has already seen radar problems with ...

Lest we forget

Letters to the editor

Arthur Keller Beavertown I could address many of the Democrat hype like Trump’s $3.62 per gallon of gas today here in Beavertown vice the $5.16 under Biden, a large article in Sunday Daily item addressing long-term mortgage rate “leaping to 6.38%” when under Biden it was 7.8%, the highest in 23 years, mammoth fraud in California, Minnesota and Maine — all Democrat states, rampant voter fraud surfacing each and every day, … but instead chose why we attacked Iran who has enough uranium to build 10 nuclear bombs, a missile with a 2,500 mile range capable of hitting any major ...

Birthright citizenship debate puts America’s melting pot on trial again

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As a Black American who is old enough to remember the last days of legal Jim Crow racial segregation, I pay special attention whenever I hear signs that in many American minds the Civil War never really ended. So does President Trump. That may help to explain why he took the extraordinary step on Wednesday of appearing in person in the grand chamber of the U.S. Supreme Court, apparently the first president to do so, as his solicitor general made the case against “birthright citizenship” before the high court justices. The issue, one of the most important Supreme Court rulings ...

Woman’s HPV test comes out positive for three risk types

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DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 35-year-old female. My doctor did a Pap smear and a human papilloma virus (HPV) test that was positive for one of the “risk types” (16, 18 and 45 according to my chart) — but not one of the really bad ones. I am otherwise healthy. My Pap smears have always been normal. I never did get my HPV vaccine. Should I get it? Should I worry? What are the chances of it going away? I am engaged to be married; how do I tell him? — V.S.P. ANSWER: HPV is the cause of cervical cancer in women and head and neck cancer in men. Although there are many different types, ...

Economic development 101: The Williamsport Lumber Yards

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Economic development is truly the process by which communities are transformed. Nowhere is this more evident than in Williamsport’s Lumber Yards project, set to host its first tournament this coming weekend. The facility features six lighted synthetic turf fields for youth baseball and girls’ and women’s softball, a convertible collegiate-size field, concessions and a hospitality hub. The story of the Lumber Yards begins with the acquisition of the former Susquehanna Supply site, a neglected brownfield that the Lycoming County Visitors Bureau and the Williamsport/Lycoming Chamber ...