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Kennedy Center renaming would tarnish jewel

Editorials

Arose by any other name would smell as sweet, said Shakespeare, but the Orwellian name games played by our current president and his congressional lackeys truly stink. The latest: A Missouri congressman has filed legislation to rename the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after Dear Leader, er, President Donald Trump. The Kennedy Center, long a jewel of Washington, D.C., culture, has become an odd obsession of Trump’s lately. After breaking with tradition by refusing during his first term to even attend the annual Kennedy Center Honors awards ceremony, Trump in this term ...

Accountability is needed now

Letters to the Editor

Accountability likely strikes fear in the Trump administration. This fear is showing up in lots of places. In Texas, a mid-census Gerrymander is set to take place to provide up to 5 additional Republican seats in the U.S. House. Anti-voting legislation and actions are taking place across the country to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters. All targeting the 2026 mid-terms to prevent loss of power and accountability. Why are they so afraid of voters? If their policies are so good, then let everyone vote on them. Encourage voting. It’s obvious that Trump has no intention ...

Budget shreds services, undermines good

Letters to the Editor

Americans understand that adversity can strike anyone at any time — and our instinct is to support our neighbors in times of need. So how can our elected officials justify a budget bill that threatens the security of countless families, while further enriching those already at the top? This isn’t just bad policy, it’s a moral failing. Despite overwhelming public disapproval of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, Republicans were determined to steal from the most vulnerable Americans in order to pass a bill giving even greater power and wealth to the billionaire elites. This bill ...

Casino workers set to lose big in spending bill

Editorials

Thousands of casino workers across the United States thought they would be winners when Donald Trump was victorious for a second term. Candidate Trump, while on the campaign trail, told workers who rely on tips as part of their income that, if he were elected to a second term, after his four-year absence from the Oval Office, workers would no longer have that tip income taxed. Initially, many workers were skeptical about that ever happening, but then came the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that, thanks to Congress, seemed to make good on Trump’s campaign promise. But what a terrible ...

Are we lost?

Letters to the Editor

The Christian ethos, “love your neighbor as yourself,” has taken quite a beating in this MAGA moment. How have we gotten here? What transformation in American values leads us to betray and exploit our democratic Ukrainian allies in their existential struggle against a ruthless, godless KGB dictator? How do we countenance barbaric medieval starvation and genocidal massacre of the defenseless civilian population in Gaza by an indicted war criminal and his political cabal? When did we condone brutal racist concentration camps, here and abroad, for harmless students, laborers, women ...

A reminder to honor those who served

Letters to the Editor

The article “1775: Good year for a little revolution” on the Opinion page (July 10) is a reminder to honor the men on the central Pennsylvania frontier who in the summer of 1775 answered the call of the 2nd Continental Congress to form rifle companies and march directly to Boston to support New England’s Army of Observation in the Siege of Boston. Men living in what are today, Bedford, Huntingdon and Blair counties answered that call. John Holliday was commissioned Second Lieutenant in Captain Robert Cluggage’s Company of Riflemen, one of the original six rifle companies under ...