Community Letters
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Letters: Casino Tax Bait and Switch; Don’t Be Fooled; What Do We Want?; Wrong Stuff for Leadership
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Well, this is delightful: In 2010, Pennsylvania lawmakers garnered support for the expansion of table games at casinos by promising that tax revenues from those games would be put into a […]
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Letters: Fix Harrisburg; Stop the Nittany Mall Casino
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Do you think politicians should have their jobs for life? Probably not. Nationwide, 15 states—both red and blue—have enacted term limits. The rationale: electing legislators strictly focused on serving the […]
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Letters: Penn State’s Continued Silence on Casino; More Accurate Casino Impact Assessment Needed
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Open Letter to Penn State University President Bendapudi Dear President Bendapudi, Please do not continue to disregard the proposed Nittany Mall Casino. It was no oversight that your office chose […]
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Letter: Columnist Didn’t Address Arguments Against Casino
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In his June 14 column, John Hook states that he understands the opposition to the Nittany Mall Casino. After skimming through the 704 messages to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) […]
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Letters: Now Is the Time for Penn State to Take a Stand on Nittany Mall Casino
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An Open Letter to Penn State University President Bendapudi Regarding the proposed Nittany Mall casino, I wrote and published an open Letter to former Penn State President Barron on March 5. […]
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Letters: Local Police Need Radar; Rein in School Taxes; Casino Opposition
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Our local police departments need your help. Pennsylvania is the only state which does not providelocal police with radar to enforce speed limits. Residents continue to express concerns about excessivespeeding […]
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Letters: Reelect Incumbents as Penn State Alumni Trustees; Weighing Casino Arguments
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Penn State’s future is bright, with the arrival of incoming President Neeli Bendapudi. Please join me in supporting the re-election of incumbent alumni trustees Ted Brown, Barbara Doran and Bill […]
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Letters: Staggering New Alzheimer’s Statistics; Rallying Democracies; Supreme Hypocrisy; Opposition to Casino
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Staggering New Statistics Spotlight Ongoing Alzheimer’s Crisis in PA The Alzheimer’s Association 2022 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures report illustrates the continued burden of Alzheimer’s in our country, and in […]
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Letters: PSU’s Silence on Casino; Support for Organizing at the Meadows; Climate Litigation; Regime Change
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Another Open Letter to PSU President Dear President Barron, Maybe you’ve been hoping for the casino opposition from the Happy Valley community to just fade away before your retirement ceremony. Oh my, but […]
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Letters: Send Pa. 7 Packing; Benninghoff Hasn’t Learned What Democracy Is About; Politics of Gas Prices; No to Casino; Supreme Conflict of Interest
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Send Them Packing Eight Republican Congressmen from Pennsylvania participated in the months-long attempted coup against our democracy, which led to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Seven […]