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‘What is a delegate and why should I care?’ To the Editor: I am a poll worker for the Mifflin County Board of Elections. In the past four years of doing this job, I have found that a lot of our county’s voters do not know what the Democratic and Republican Delegates do and why they should vote for someone. As a result, the average voter leaves that section unmarked. In this letter I want to try to explain why it is very important for people to vote for the Delegates of their respective party. In a Presidential election year, at the primary election, electors (that is, the ...

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With spring comes renewal To the Editor: The Pennsylvania Game Commission comes under scrutiny for many decisions. The simple truth is, their ‘Board of Commissioners’ are unpaid political appointees devoting their time to managing hunting and wildlife resources. The decisions they make can be thankless, and not without scrutiny by all parties. Certainly, some of their decisions are right, some arguable, and yes, some wrong. But like most things, you hear little when things go right, and a lot when things go wrong. They have had recent questionable expenditures, and hired and later ...

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Laws matter even in Christianity To the Editor: Anarchists, also called antinomians, believe in having no law. Law oppresses people, they believe. We don’t need it. They are similar to extreme libertarians. They would be pleased with the Rev. Dr. James Barnes’ March 23-24 rant against law. But you have to have law, even within Christianity, to some extent, certainly the moral law and the law of love (synonymous with charity). Read the 13th chapter of St. Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, where St. Paul says “there are in the end, faith, hope, and love and the greatest ...

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Readers deserve intelligent discussion To the Editor: In a piece published in the March 25 edition of the Sentinel, columnist Armstrong Williams noted that, in today’s media environment, it seems nearly impossible to find “good stories that lift the spirit, stories that remind you there is still good in humanity.” One reason for this, according to Williams, is a toxic media environment that prefers salacious details and yelling matches over rational discussions. Almost as if to prove Williams’ point about the media, a similar kind of toxicity was present in the other ...

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Former Pa. governor cut the wrong tax To the Editor: When former Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration passed legislation lowering the corporate income tax rate from 9.99% to 4.99% over a period of years, all this did was lower their tax bills. It did nothing to increase their sales and profits. To increase profits, it is necessary to give customers more money to spend on goods and services. Consumers are everyday people, mostly working class, not the wealthy; Walmart would be out of business without working class customers. Pennsylvania can give consumers more money to spend in ...

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Voters: Let’s not be misled To the Editor: The article “Trump takeover of the GOP” is typical of many previous articles and those expected from now till November - misleading, not factual, attacks on Trump. I will address a few issues. NATO - “There is no reason for the American taxpayers, in the face of our own substantial deficit, to continue to subsidize Germany, France, England, Norway, Belgium and other prosperous European democracies.” Trump going off on NATO again? No, it was Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., in 1994, talking about a NATO burden-sharing amendment to the ...