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Deepfake tech creates a trail of victims

Editorials

Last weekend in this space we focused on the issue of “lunch shaming” — that the practice has no place in our schools. For the benefit of those unfamiliar with the topic, “lunch shaming,” which was the focus of an opinion column in the Wall Street Journal’s June 2 edition, was described in that article as “an insidious bullying tactic ‘creeping into school cafeterias across the country.’” It involves making and sharing unflattering photographs of other students eating. Julie Jargon, the Journal columnist who wrote the column, wrote that “kids are snapping and ...

Clock keeps ticking

Letters to the Editor

Clock keeps ticking In Manhattan, on a wall not far from Times Square, the debt clock ticks higher and higher. After climbing for so many years with no obvious economic fallout, it’s easy to ignore. Indeed, the clock was moved from its location on a busy street corner to a quiet passageway. The reality is that we really don’t have a “debt ceiling.” It’s a political creation with no fundamental economic meaning. No other country has one. But we do need a political solution, and many politicians have been concerned about our growing debt for a long time. They thought they had ...

Officers’ flawless work lauded

Editorials

Anyone who ever has harbored the foolhardy notion of trying to smuggle an illegal substance or item into the Blair County Prison was dealt an “eye-opener” by way of the June 5 Mirror article “Warden commends work to halt smuggling.” The lesson was that, to be successful, it will take a plan much more sophisticated than the one hatched to “funnel” illegal items to an inmate who was at the Station Medical Center on Ninth Avenue in Altoona for an appointment — and that an even-more-sophisticated plan is likely to be doomed to failure, with additional criminal charges being ...

Gabbard doing job by releasing reports

Letters to the Editor

DNI Tulsi Gabbard is stepping down as director of national intelligence at the end of June, but the radical left had better be fearful of what will occur in her final weeks. Gabbard announced her resignation after her husband, Abraham, was diagnosed with what she described as “an extremely rare form of bone cancer.” She said she must “step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this battle.” Gabbard devoted her time at ODNI to wage a full-frontal assault on the entrenched intelligence bureaucracy, and she’s performed exquisitely. Before ...

Fossil fuel industry controls government

Letters to the Editor

The world as we know it today was built on the back of burning fossil fuels. Unfortunately, this process has come at a tremendous cost. Emissions from burning fossil fuels are rapidly warming our world at a rate that has never occurred in the history of our planet. Why, then, do we continue to burn planet killing fossil fuels? One primary reason is the tremendous control the fossil fuel industry has over our government. The industry spends approximately $250 million dollars per year lobbying elected officials. The vast majority of this money goes to Republican officials and ...

Support urged for the Clean Streams Fund

Letters to the Editor

Our state legislators should support the Clean Streams Fund in Pennsylvania’s Fiscal Year 2026-27 budget. Since its inception, this program has led to water quality and habitat outcomes throughout the Commonwealth, and continued support will benefit all Pennsylvanians, and perhaps most notably hunters, anglers and farmers. The programs funded by the Clean Streams Fund directly improve water quality through the implementation of practices like riparian forest buffers, streambank fencing, cover crops and manure management structures. These practices prevent pollutants like excessive ...