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Editorials

Country must address fiscal responsibility

If a new report dealing with unpaid federal taxes is accurate — and doubt has not been cast regarding the correctness of the information — it is time for the government to assemble a major strategy built upon the old adage “you have to spend money to make money.” Beyond that, the ...

It should be easy to vote, hard to cheat

State Government Committee Chairman Seth Grove, R-York, has been holding hearings in the Legislature since November, focusing on the general election of 2020 and the issues that cropped up during that election. Pennsylvania’s election law, originally passed in 1937, was updated during the ...

Initiative would aid students

Young people grow up, finish their schooling and leave the area in search of jobs. Meanwhile, employers could grow their businesses if only they could find skilled workers. So how can our society get the two together? State Rep. Clint Owlett, R-Wellsboro, is the prime sponsor of a bill ...

Addressing discourse in Dean

Residents of Dean Township in northeastern Cambria County have had three weeks to digest the friction-filled goings-on at their municipal government’s monthly meeting on April 5. Even now they should be unhappy about what occurred, regardless of their position about the controversial ...

Wolf wrong to go it alone on reforms

Gov. Tom Wolf, apparently unsatisfied with controlling merely everything in Pennsylvania related to the COVID-19 pandemic, has decided he now needs to decree what is best regarding the state’s charter schools, despite the fact that up until recently, it appeared he and the state Legislature ...

Getting vaccinated civic duty

Hope was delivered to all Pennsylvanians who are 16 or older with word that all are eligible as of this past Tuesday to get the COVID-19 vaccine. We should all embrace this opportunity. A successful vaccination program is essential to our recovery and the renewal of our full and vibrant lives ...