Letters: Waltz will work for public schools, children; Pipe, Higgins showed leadership in ‘green phase’ decision

Waltz will work for public schools, children

Please join me in supporting Joe Waltz on June 2nd.

Joe Waltz has lived in our region for nearly 50 years, and he understands what matters to us and to our families, including attracting good jobs with decent pay and advocating for business growth in our area.

Joe’s commitment to our community and the residents make him the best choice for the 76th House of Representatives.

As a retired public school educator in Lock Haven, Joe understands how unfunded mandates hurt not only our public schools also our taxpayers. He will fight for quality and affordable education for all our children.

Joe supports the need to rebuild our infrastructure, including our roads, bridges and broadband internet. He is also a strong advocate for both a safe environment and for accessibility to affordable health care.

The bottom line is that common sense and compromise are the key to getting things done in Harrisburg and that is why Joe has recently been recommended by Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) for the 2020 Primary.

Please join me on June 2 in casting your ballot for Joe. We need to make sure our voices are heard is Harrisburg.

Pipe, Higgins showed leadership in ‘green phase’ decision

A tip of the hat to Commissioners Pipe and Higgins for reversing their initial decision to not reopen Centre County. To their credit, they did more research and they were willing to listen to people who disagreed with them. I call that leadership. Now it’s up to all of us to keep Centre County virus free and green.

Trump damaging COVID-19 recovery

It is impossible to cover the myriad of serious problems created by denial and narcissism of Trump. Trump’s inadequacies in acting on the pandemic are now understood. Had he acted one week earlier some 36,000 lives would have been saved, and had he acted on March 1 it would have saved some 54,000 lives. He had over a month to start actions on the advice of many.

We are approaching 100,000 deaths from this in the United States, with no sign of slowing the infection rate if we remove New York from the equation. We are almost 5% of the earth’s population accounting for almost 30% of the COVID deaths. The hot spots are now in nursing homes, meat packing plants, prisons, churches and any place larger numbers of humanity congregate, yet these places have barely received any additional help. In fact Trump is advocating reopening churches for mass services to support his cult following’s desire! His countryside supporters are now on the chopping block as he continues to lie to us all. Prematurely opening up is his idea, running counter from all those who have dealt with pandemics. He takes and promotes Hydroxychloroquine now shown to result in a 37% increase in deaths among COVID-19 infected individuals, in a study including nearly 100,000 patients. The CDC, like all other agencies of the executive branch, is now emasculated and everyone who disagrees with him is gone quickly. He is rotting us from the top down.

This story was originally published May 28, 2020 at 6:00 AM.