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Our opinion: Make internet safer for all

The internet can be wonderful. We are thankful for the additional tools it has given us to keep our region informed on their communities — from our website and social media platforms to video news segments and features. But the internet can be a terrifying place as well. State Attorney General Dave Sunday reminded our sister paper, the Williamsport Sun-Gazette, of that sad reality in a brief conversation before his keynote remarks to the Lycoming County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner. He noted the work the state attorney general’s office does on identifying, ...

Our opinion: Expanding broadband network

We can’t say we disagree with Gregory Burkett when it comes to the use of federal money given to broadband projects in Warren County. In 2024, Verizon was awarded a $4.7 million Broadband Infrastructure Program grant toward a $9.9 million project that will bring high-speed broadband services over Verizon’s fiber-optic network to an estimated 1,220 homes in Warren County. The awarded project would include municipalities such as Warren, Russell, Clarendon, Ludlow, Spring Creek, Irvine, Pittsfield, and Youngsville. The Pleasant Township resident addressed the Warren County ...

Our opinion: RDA keeps its options open

We won’t know for a while yet what the future holds for property at 231-237 Pennsylvania Ave. West - and there’s nothing wrong with that. A local development group which includes Bee Courageous at Garden Grub, Sugar Bay and Create Community has come forward with an idea for the parcel. The group is working through all of the legal steps necessary to form a 501(c)3, create the documentation the Warren Redevelopment Authority needs to consider a formal proposal from the group and, at the same time, working to get a comprehensive engineering report completed. And, the group needs to ...

Editor’s corner: At the moment, rural red has grip on Congress

Do not expect a level playing field when it comes to the races for U.S. Congress in this region that spans two states. Both incumbents Nick Langworthy of New York and Glenn “G.T.” Thompson of Pennsylvania appear to have plenty of support in their highly Republican districts. Thompson’s ...

Other voices: Power demands require nuclear

As America’s energy demands grow exponentially, the country won’t be able to keep up without more nuclear power. For decades, the climate-friendly industry has been held back by overly burdensome regulations, but that’s beginning to change. In the 1960s, plants took about four years to build, and they cost, in today’s dollars, about $1,500 per kilowatt of electricity generated. Now the idea of building a reactor in less than a decade is unheard of, and the cost of construction is six times greater. The Energy Department took steps this month to exempt certain advanced ...

Our opinion: Some wounds still need to heal

It’s obvious, simply from reading the Seneca Nation of Indians’ comments in a recent news release signaling productive talks between the nation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that the Kinzua Dam is still an open wound for the Seneca Nation. The agreement comes as the Army Corps of Engineers is preparing for an upcoming dam safety modification study to plan for the future of the Kinzua Dam, which was built in the 1960s to help alleviate flooding in Pittsburgh and provide hydropower for downstream users. The Seneca Nation lost 10,000 acres of land and hundreds of Seneca ...