Is it time to call in the National Guard? We believe the answer is an emphatic YES. As we turn the calendar page to February, Pennsylvania was ranked either 49th or 44th — depending on which report you read — among the 50 states for administering the coronavirus vaccine doses it had ...
To the editor: How to heal a nation divided? We have done it before. Two prior times that come to my mind are the Civil War and the Vietnam War. President Ulysses S. Grant did a good job after the Civil War with reconstruction and was cut down by Jim Crow and Plessy v. Ferguson. Civil ...
The month of February is traditionally recognized as a time to celebrate love. Often, our first thoughts turn to the romantic variety where we shower those we love with lavish gifts and grand gestures. It is also a time, however, to stop and show through random acts of kindness and sharing, ...
On the surface, the budget proposal unveiled Wednesday by Gov. Tom Wolf seems noble enough — raise taxes on people who can “afford” it in order to provide more funding for schools. And while you’ll hear no argument from us that schools could use more funding, the ends of doing so do ...
To the editor: For a president who claims to want to do what is good for the country and bring everyone together, President Joe Biden is doing a lousy job. His executive orders are doing just the opposite. Ending the Keystone Pipeline and eliminating over 1,100 jobs is not going to make ...
In his inauguration address, President Biden spoke of a nation moving forward as one to overcome the many challenges ahead, proclaiming that doing so “requires the most elusive of things in a democracy: unity.” Unfortunately for the hardworking men and women employed in America’s energy ...
Falling back on “human error” is cold comfort to some victims of child sexual abuse in Pennsylvania who must now wait at least another two years before they can pursue legal cases. But that seems the best officials can come up with as they try to explain how a proposed state constitutional ...
Editor’s note: This letter is addressed to former President Donald Trump, and a copy was submitted to The Sentinel for publication. To President Trump: Our family wants to thank you for serving our nation these past four years and making it great again. Everything but the kitchen sink was ...
The Congressional Budget Office now projects that economic recovery in 2021 will be faster than it predicted last July. It projects that the economy will be back to its pre-pandemic levels by mid-2021. This very good news reflects the fact that the economic turndown was not as severe as the CBO ...
We agree with Forrest Lehman, director of Lycoming County Voter Services, that it’s time to clear up the confusion that came about during the 2020 election year. Nobody could have foretold that a global pandemic would shut down our normal comings and goings, but it did. In the midst of ...