Pennsylvania lawmakers have many more important issues demanding their attention than considering whether Daylight Savings Time, which went into effect last weekend, should in the future be eliminated in the commonwealth.

This past weekend, Americans were forced to comply with an antiquated practice that continues to frustrate a growing majority of the public: the biannual practice of changing our clocks.

The News-Item’s cheers and jeers from the past week of news.

The name Jim Zack has been swirling around Shamokin for the better half of the week, but right now there seems to be a lot more unanswered questions than affirmatives.

Masculinity isn’t noxious or a pathological disorder, but if you read the American Psychological Association’s (APA) latest white paper, you might come away with such a conclusion, provided you didn’t know better.

I had measles when I was a kid. I also had chicken pox and scarlet fever. Thankfully, I escaped polio, which was a crippling scourge of childhood until the arrival of a vaccine in the 1950s.

The manifesto left by the alleged shooter in the horrific mosque attack in New Zealand contained one mention of Donald Trump, in which the man expresses mixed support for our president. “As a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose? Sure. As a policy maker and leader? Dear god no.”

If there is one thing we can all agree on, it’s the absolute imperative of respecting and protecting the elderly.

Outrage can be a powerful motivator. Tale after tale of people hamstrung by astronomical medical bills they didn’t see coming have put lawmakers from both parties on a joint mission to repair the problem.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s renewed proposal for an increase in the state minimum wage, which seemed dead on arrival at the time of his 2019-20 budget address on Feb. 6, might actually still be breathing, as a result of limited “life support” being provided by legislative Republicans.

Evidently, President Donald Trump is still toying with the idea of imposing steep tariffs on cars and automotive parts. In a White House brimming with bad economic ideas, this would be the worst one yet.

The News-Item’s cheers and jeers from the past week of news:

Of all the issues orbiting throughout our political universe, there is none more substantive, none more important than ending abortion and the mere thought of this has leftists terrified. After all, their foremost secular “sacrament” is abortion on demand.

In all the sadness and horror of the Trump administration’s crackdown on border crossings, more than 4,500 complaints about sexual abuse of the immigrant children captured at our southern border have emerged.

While India and Pakistan seem to have stopped bombing one another, the causes behind the cross-border tensions aren’t going away any time soon. The two nations are nuclear-armed; have large conventional armed forces; have had four serious wars since they became independent in 1947; and have …

The Senate has just confirmed Allison Jones Rushing to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. As with many of the Trump administration’s nominations, it was decided by a straight party vote (53-44). Democrats opposed her nomination for lots of reasons, as HuffPost reports: