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Editorials

Mark Baker’s life and death show the cost of service

Three detectives are dead in York County. On Sept. 17, they walked into a house in North Codorus Township to serve a warrant. They did not come back. The men — Det. Sgt. Cody Becker, 39; Det. Mark Baker, 53, and Det. Isaiah Emenheiser, 43, were ambushed by a 24-year-old suspect wanted on ...

Winds, waves and legends: An Outer Banks adventure

Part One: Discovering the Spirit of Cape Hatteras For all the traveling I have done in my life, across oceans, and through many parts of the United States, there was one destination surprisingly missing from my list: the Outer Banks. It was a place that I heard a lot about since many of my ...

State’s mismanagement worrisome for business climate

Since June 30, the Sun-Gazette has featured at least 40 articles about businesses in our local communities. From mixed martial arts studios to furniture production, from convenience stores to photography studios, from bakeries to fishing-lure craftsmanship, from car dealerships to coffee ...

Capitalism v. Mamdani: The battle ahead

As Zohran Mamdani rides frontrunner status in the final seven weeks before the mayoral election, he’s moving rapidly to the left. Despite efforts by the business community to build bridges with Mamdani, he is ratcheting up his anti-capitalist rhetoric, equating profit with greed, rolling out ...

Kirk showed what it means to be a man

Popular culture has two competing narratives about manhood. Charlie Kirk rejected both of them and set an example that young men should follow. The dominant view is that masculinity is toxic. In 2018, the American Psychological Association issued guidelines declaring that “traditional ...

Legal notices play important role in accountability

Like clockwork, efforts to weaken public notice requirements appear before the state’s legislature routinely. The proposed alternatives often are flawed and often would make a system that has worked for generations weaker, not stronger. Requiring boards and councils that need to be ...