COLUMN: Some damage done by DOGE can’t be undone

Editor,

Today is Friday, March 7, the 66th day of 2025. There are 299 days left in the year.

“The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.”

The legacy media have been in a tailspin covering the second Trump administration. The American people voted for government reform in November, and we have seen actions taken by the president aiming to accomplish that.

Candidate Donald Trump had his fellow Republicans in Congress kill a comprehensive bipartisan immigration deal a year ago that they helped write to deprive President Joe Biden of a legislative success. So, where is President Donald Trump’s plan to reform the immigration system?

Today is Thursday, March 6, the 65th day of 2025. There are 300 days left in the year.

“Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play.”

For a brief window, Asteroid 2024 YR4 looked like a planetary hazard in the making. At up to 295 feet in diameter, it was described as a potential “city killer.” On its estimated trajectory, it could’ve collided with Earth as soon as 2032.

Editor,

Today is Wednesday, March 5, the 64th day of 2025. There are 301 days left in the year.

“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.”

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is sowing confusion and chaos, ordering mass firings of government employees and canceling programs despite having no formal legal authority.

The past few weeks have been highly instructive as Democrats rush to defend federal waste and fiscal folly in the face of the DOGE onslaught. The level of hand-wringing signifies far more than a concern over the “unelected” Elon Musk or executive branch overreach.

Editor,

Editor,

“Admire as much as you can, most people don’t admire enough.”

President Donald Trump is poised tonight to address a joint session of Congress, the first-year equivalent of the annual State of the Union address.

Six weeks since inauguration day, we’re already getting a taste of what President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are delivering — and even for folks who voted for Trump, it might not be the change they expected.

Editor,

Editor,

Today is Tuesday, March 4, the 63rd day of 2025. There are 302 days left in the year.

Today is Monday, March 3, the 62nd day of 2025. There are 303 days left in the year.

Editor,

“The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”

During a recent broadcast of “CBS Mornings,” Gayle King asked Ed Bastian, chief executive officer of Delta Airlines, if he was concerned by what she referred to as the Trump administration’s firing of “many employees of the FAA.”

In the introduction to her 2023 book,” How We Learn to Be Brave,” the Rt. Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, D.C., wrote, “We all want to be brave when it counts — to be the one who… does the right thing when it matters most….”

Today is Friday, Feb. 28, the 59th day of 2025. There are 306 days left in the year.

“From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.”

Republican and Democratic administrations alike benefited from the sacrifices of Afghans who put their lives on the line to support U.S. troops, and spread American values, in the 20-year war against the Taliban. Both have now betrayed the trust those allies placed in them.

Editor,

The debate over environmental justice has been overtaken by the term “environmental racism” — the claim that minority communities suffer disproportionately from pollution because of systemic racism.

Today is Thursday, Feb. 27, the 58th day of 2025. There are 307 days left in the year.

“You will never get any more out of life than you expect.”

Even as Hamas releases hostages and temporarily lays down its weapons, leaders of the terror group continue to make clear their intentions: No matter what happens in the Middle East, it will continue to attack Israel and to indiscriminately kill Jews in a maniacal effort to eliminate the Jew…

Editor,

It is election season in Venango County, and what a relief to focus on local rather than national politics for a change.

Today is Wednesday, Feb. 26, the 57th day of 2025. There are 308 days left in the year.

“My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.”

Editor,