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We need more competitive gas pricing here

Some time in the next month or so, Lock Haven will get a new gasoline station. So what? (You might ask). Well, let’s at least hope that the new Gas n Go to be opened by Weis Markets at Bellefonte Avenue and Commerce Street injects more competition here so that prices lower. Gasoline prices are volatile. We know that. We know that global forces tend to dictate the pricing, even though the United States is the top producer of oil in the world. But little old Clinton County seems to be out on an island when it comes to competitive pricing. Drive just 20 to 30 minutes south ...

Get up, get out, and get to the polls to vote!

Americans might not agree on some things but voting on Election Day isn’t one of them. About 70% of adults across the country believe it’s important to vote in elections to be a good member of society. It’s your civic duty! There’s plenty people don’t agree on. By comparison, fewer than half of Americans considered it important to get a COVID-19 vaccine (44%), to make choices that help reduce the effects of global climate change (42%) or to follow what’s happening in politics in this country (37%). Even fewer are concerned with current events in other countries (22%) or ...

Why preserving historical places, sites should matter to us all

Why do historical places matter to people? Why should old places matter to historians, or to the general public that historians serve? What can we learn from the continued existence of old places in our communities and around our nation? Why does it matter if we save these old places or if we don’t? There are many reasons old places matter, from memory, to civic identity, to history, to architecture, to beauty, to economics. While most of the reasons don’t fully capture all of the many meanings historical places have for people, there’s one main idea to be emphasized: old places ...

Student loan relief still best addressed by lawmakers — not White House

The Biden Administration, once again, is trying to use executive action to reduce student loan debt. And once again, the White House’s approach fails to address the root causes of this problem and ignores the historic avenues that allow such root causes or larger concerns to be aired and alleviated — while setting expensive precedents in an age of a $34 trillion national debt. As we observed in a January editorial, “any proposal to cancel or forgive student loan debt without addressing the underlying problem — that for decades college tuition has increased in cost at a rate ...

Data on uterine cancer raising concerns

Women across America have been delivered a wake-up call regarding uterine cancer, but it probably will take at least several years to ascertain how well they have paid attention. Hopefully, women of the Southern Alleghenies region will be among those eventually delivering the message that they have responded correctly. According to a report in the Feb. 13 Wall Street Journal, the disease will kill an estimated 13,250 women in the United States this year, on its way, the American Cancer Society says, to surpass ovarian cancer and become the deadliest gynecologic cancer. The cancer ...

Pa. consumers deserve right to repair

State Rep. Scott Conklin, D-Centre, recently broke the charging port in his cell phone. (We won’t ask him how.) But when the manufacturer told him the part could not be repaired, he had no option but to buy a new phone. The replacement was more than a thousand dollars. “Now, phones are a necessity, and especially so for residents in rural Pennsylvania,” Conklin said. “We cannot wait for manufacturers to take a long time to repair consumers’ devices at exponentially high costs.” Conklin spoke outside a House Commerce Committee informational meeting discussing Senate Bill ...