Our local MAGA voters are getting rewarded for their proud ignorance. Trump illegally cut off funding to buy food from Pennsylvania farms for our food banks, school nutrition programs and childcare centers. Gov. Shapiro filed a federal lawsuit.

Carbon-Monroe-Pike Drug & Alcohol Commission reported that Trump has revoked funding for the American Rescue Plan. That funding was being used to get our local people into rehab.

More than 300 Army Corps of Engineers campsites in Pennsylvania have been closed thanks to DOGE cuts.

In other national news, Trump’s “intelligence” chief, Tulsi Gabbard, is trying to convert the President’s daily intelligence briefs into Fox News-style videos because Trump doesn’t read.

John Phelan, the Trump-appointed civilian Secretary of the Navy and big Trump donor, posted that he visited the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial “to pay my respects to the service members and civilians we lost at Pearl Harbor on the fateful day of June 7, 1941.”

Jerry Hoare

Jim Thorpe