EDITORIAL: Need more than an ‘honor system’

Taxpayers are entitled to know how their money is spent. And Grove's campaign would be a win for the public's right to know.

by The Dispatch Editorial Board  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: Poachers leave legal hunters livid

There’s a group of York County folks who are probably pretty angry right now. Actually, they’re most likely livid. They're the county's legal hunters.

by York Dispatch  | 5 days ago

OP-ED: Are you tired of watching America’s natural landscapes disappear?

America's population is soaring. Our nation currently houses 330 million people. And each year, that number grows by 2 million. By 2065, more than 440 million people may call the United States home.

by Gary Wockner  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: Mug shot confusion eroding confidence

The sudden decision to rescind the practice of releasing mug shots and booking information was not only poorly communicated and arbitrary, it made for poor optics — particularly coming on the heels of the sheriff’s dismissal of several perceived political opponents from the department.

by York Dispatch Editorial Board  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: Take smart steps to avoid all bugs

While the best defense against any virus is to avoid coming in contact with it — not currently a tall order in Pennsylvania — 2019-nCoV is easily spread from person to person. Sneezing, coughing, even shaking hands can result in infection, as can touching an infected surface.

by York Dispatch Editorial Board  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: Thumbs up for referees and a new diver, down for a water authority

by York Dispatch Editorial Board  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: What’s the funding plan?

Wolf's 2020-2021 draft executive budget is littered with gimmicks and bad assumptions.

by The Dispatch Editorial Board  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: York City residents deserve better

York City resident deserve a mayor and a council that can cooperate and act like adults. Right now, they're not getting that.

by York Dispatch  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: Toomey, GOP aid and abet Trump

It is unsurprising, though nonetheless disappointing, that Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey so eagerly fell in line with his Republican cohorts in the Senate in a vote to forego the inconvenience of witness testimony at the impeachment “trial” of President Donald Trump.

by York Dispatch Editorial Board  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: After $1.3M, York can’t make this software work?

The city has no plans to ditch this system that doesn't work and find another one that does. After spending so much money, the city can't afford to.

by York Dispatch Editorial Board  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: Pollution has gone orbital

It’s high time (no pun intended) for NASA and its international peer agencies to develop a global agreement aimed at monitoring and maintaining the planet’s increasingly clogged orbit.

by Staff report  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: ‘The eyes can’t trespass’

The situation would be troubling enough if this past week's incident was a one-off. But the trend it exposes is far worse: Shirey's run-in represented the second time in the past year York County Prison was caught flouting basic constitutional rights.

by The Dispatch Editorial Board  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: Standing up for Greta

Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old climate activist from Sweden, was trying to make the president melt like a glacier into the floor.

by York Dispatch Editorial Board  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: Numbers show PGC changes may work

Some preliminary numbers on license sales show that the Pennsylvania Game Commission changes may just work.

by York Dispatch Editorial Board  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: Witnesses a must at Trump impeachment hearings

As Donald Trump’s defense team continues to make its case this week for why the compromised and corrupt president should not be removed from office, they’re enjoying a benefit the president’s accusers lacked: the sympathetic attention of Republican senators.

by York Dispatch Editorial Board  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: Blurring the mission of the National Archives

The National Archives decided it didn't want to offend the president and his supporters, so it changed an image.

by York Dispatch Editorial Board  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: Agendas and minutes a must

The Senate should immediately, and unanimously, ratify Bernstine's legislation and send it to Gov. Tom Wolf for his signature.

by The Dispatch Editorial Board  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: Nix Pa. GOP plan to ‘gerrymander’ court

From voter suppression to gerrymandered political districts to deep-sixing the U.S. Senate filibuster on Supreme Court nominees, Republicans have made an art of bending, breaking and changing rules that might keep them from power.

by York Dispatch Editorial Board  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: Don’t rush to judgment in PSU case

In the hazing lawsuit vs. the Penn State football program, there's cause for some healthy skepticism.

by York Dispatch  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: MLK Day finds progress stalled

From all-out assaults on voting rights to inequities in education and housing to new spasms of white-nationalist nonsense, the America entering the third decade of the 21st century is not so far removed from that embroiled in the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

by York Dispatch Editorial Board  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: Bad timing for a Warren-Sanders split

The ending of the yearlong truce comes at a bad time.

by York Dispatch Editorial Board  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: Banning gambling devices seems wrong

The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court will likely decide the issue, but a ban on newly proliferating gambling devices seems wrongheaded.

by York Dispatch  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: A lion of the Civil Rights movement

From the earliest days of the Civil Rights movement to the most challenging days of the current administration, Rep. John Lewis has been a prominent and forceful voice on the national stage – for equality, for justice, for fairness and for reason.

by York Dispatch Editorial Board  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: How seriously do York County officials take elections?

What, pray tell, were county commissioners looking for in the interview process, anyway?

by The Dispatch Editorial Board  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: York JCC shows the right level of caution by increasing security

In this era, that easy access can be a liability as anti-Semitic hate crimes rise and threats become actions. And so the JCC is taking action of its own.

by York Dispatch Editorial Board  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: Revisit and revive ERA

If you thought the Equal Rights Amendment was dead and gone, well, one could hardly blame you. Congress passed the measure in 1972 and the majority of states that ratified it — including, we’re proud to note, Pennsylvania — acted within the next two years.

by York Dispatch Editorial Board  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: Colleges lacking bang for buck

There’s a crisis in higher education. There’s no doubt about that. Each year, fewer students are enrolling in college.

by York Dispatch  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: Impulse is not foreign policy

Almost everything surrounding the decision by President Donald Trump to assassinate Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, Iran’s most powerful military commander, raises troubling questions.

by York Dispatch Editorial Board  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: Answer needed on Turnpike toll spirals

Benjamin Franklin famously noted there were but two certainties in life: Death and taxes. Were he around today, he would no doubt add a third: Toll hikes on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

by York Dispatch Editorial Board  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: Some resolutions to unite us in 2020

A new year is upon us. That can only mean one thing. It's time to make resolutions. Here are a few resolutions to help us become more united in 2020.

by York Dispatch  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: The two sides of 2019, personified

Every year has its share of good and bad. But seldom can the two sides of that coin be summed up so succinctly by a pair of public figures. In 2019, however, that was the case.

by Staff report  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: Good news for city school district

York City School District was recently named to the AP Honor Roll from the College Board. It was one of only two York County districts to be honored.

by York Dispatch  | 5 days ago

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus

The following Christmas classic, written by Francis P. Church, was first published in 1897 by The New York Sun.

by York Dispatch Editorial Board  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: Make it easier to cast ballots

They’re at it again. Republican officials in several states are moving aggressively to purge voters – hundreds and thousands of them – from registration rolls.

by York Dispatch Editorial Board  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: Forget the facts, ma’am

Phillips-Hill talked a lot about jobs at Trump's rally this past week. Yet she felt compelled to tear down her very own constituents who were just doing theirs.

by Dispatch Editorial Board  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: Welcome effort to increase diversity

The York City Police Department has announced plans to partner with York College students to better understand — and rectify — its woesome lack of diversity.

by York Dispatch Editorial Board  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: It’s time to phase out class rank

The time has come to phase out class rank. One local educator said it's an "antiquated process that doesn't have relevance in today's world."

by York Dispatch  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: Avoid repeats of Mount Rose mess

The $60 million-and-counting Mount Rose project was intended to reduce congestion and improve safety at one of the area’s most notorious interchanges. And maybe it will. If it’s ever completed.

by York Dispatch Editorial Board  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: Lots of jobs, but lousy ones

The JQI debuted last week, the same day the very low unemployment numbers came out. And it showed a very different picture than the 3.5% unemployment did.

by York Dispatch Editorial Board  | 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: House must impeach Trump

And it's that use of mafioso language — phrases designed to apply pressure while maintaining plausible deniability — that are at the crux of his pending impeachment in the House.

by The Dispatch Editorial Board  | 5 days ago