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License plate readers enhance public safety

Letters to the Editor

With over 50 years in public safety, I’ve witnessed how innovation and technology have transformed community protection. One such technology is the emergence of License Plate Reader (LPR) technology, which has practical and affordable public safety benefits for communities of all sizes and budgets to use. In fact, the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency has administered grant programs in recent years to support municipal police departments’ integration of this technology into their ongoing operations. Many Pennsylvania municipalities have adopted LPRs, enabling law ...

Preserving humanity amid AI revolution

Editorials

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Artificial intelligence seems to have found its way into almost everything. Schools are trying to balance using it in some areas while weeding it out in others. Some universities are returning to handwritten blue book exams to ensure original thought. Others are using artificial intelligence to screen assignments for signs they were generated by artificial intelligence. Employers face similar questions about where technology should assist workers and where it should replace them. For Catholic colleges in Western Pennsylvania, however, the debate recently ...

County could sell old prison to cut costs

Letters to the Editor

Is the Blair County Commission really interested in building the new prison as economically as possible? Then they will get the best price they can for the stone work that makes up the front of the Hollidaysburg prison. According to the generic AI, Americans spend $15B a year on “hardscape.” Put the building up for bid. The cache and provenance of these stones should be themselves a good head start on reducing the price of the new prison. Do they plan to save the antiquated part of the building for “historical” reasons? Put that idea up for a referendum and watch it get ...

Whatever became of shame?

Opinion

At first, it didn’t sound right. Someone must have miscalculated. How could there be so much fraud that has robbed taxpayers of billions of dollars without anyone seeming to notice? Worse, it appears they didn’t seem to care. Vice President JD Vance convened a meeting last Tuesday of his Task Force to Eliminate Fraud. Fifteen Republican attorneys general showed up. Almost two dozen Democrat attorneys general didn’t come, citing short notice. Their invitations went out on Friday, so they probably had a good excuse. Vance urged all of them to help in rooting out more fraud than has ...

No, Iran and China are not ‘winning’

Opinion

For years, much of the American media has operated under a peculiar assumption: that the best way to confront adversaries such as China and Iran is to accommodate them. If the United States applies pressure, the narrative quickly becomes that America is overextended, losing leverage, or somehow empowering its enemies. That narrative has resurfaced during President Donald Trump’s confrontation with Tehran and Beijing. According to outlets such as The New York Times and The Washington Post, both Iran and China are supposedly emerging stronger from the current conflict. It is a ...

Turnpike must consider users, weather in plan

Editorials

The two sides in the debate about whether the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission should construct a new section of roadway atop Allegheny Mountain and eliminate the existing Allegheny Mountain Tunnel might not be giving enough attention to what should be the most relevant consideration regarding the project proposal. That consideration is this: If the project were to be pursued by way of the commission’s preference to build new roadway and eliminate the tunnel, would the traveling public and the commercial drivers who use the toll road be subjected suddenly to a winter-weather ...