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The number of college students with no religious affiliation has tripled in the last 30 years from 10 percent in 1986 to 31 percent in 2016 according to data from the CIRP Freshman Survey. The best I can figure is they are a lot smarter today. You see all religions have one thing in common — they are dead wrong. Agnostic

The tax problem for the U.S. government and for the state of Pennsylvania is very, very simple but none of our elected officials want to get into it. It’s called the flat tax. Regardless of your income you pay a specified tax whether you make $10,000 a year or $10 billion a year, you pay the same flat tax. It would cover everything except those with the largest incomes would have to pay more and that’s all there is to it. A Senior

As a resident of Upper Providence I want to know why with the recycle center that we have, why we don’t have a large truck that could come around and vacuum up the leaves for residents that don’t have the ability or the facilities to take leaves to that recycle center. We need something to take leaves when you don’t have a truck to deliver them.

Thank you to the Swamp Door Antique Mall in Gilbertsville for the beautiful vintage outdoor decorations. They bring back many memories of happy Christmases past. This unique store is an asset to our community.

Hi, fellow North Charlotte Street residents. Let’s get out and clean up the remaining leaves under our trees and on the sidewalks of our sweet homes. Let’s keep our great community beautiful. If anyone needs special assistance give a shout, maybe we can get together some volunteers to help you or if you’re a rental property maybe your landlords will send someone over.

Donald Trump tweeted that he really didn’t want Roy Moore any way.

Steve Bannon was right, a Wall Street elitist such as himself couldn’t go to Alabama and tell those people to vote for an alleged child molester. Go Doug Jones. North Coventry Yankee

Jay Miller, how come you or none of your daily Trump bashers ever answered the question on why Obama had all those young male Muslims on an island outside of Australia? What were his plans with them? Let’s change the subject on Trump and turn the attention to where it belongs. Answer those questions, you or one of your fellow haters.

Everyone call your senators and congressmen. The new tax bill is not going to help the middle and the almost middle and the poor people. It’s only going to help the wealthy. Unless you have an airplane or golf course or are very, very rich it’s not going to help at all. It doesn’t apply to me and I’m sure it doesn’t apply to most people. You have to call them very quickly. They’re going to try to pass it next week.

What really fires me up is these drivers who want to tailgate you, so you move over so they can beat you to the next light. Also what fires me up are these people who don’t know how to merge onto a highway. They think they have the right to push you off the road.

To the Pottstown police, are you enforcing the 25 mph on Industrial Highway? I was doing 25 on Industrial Highway and I was getting passed by people in cars and it’s a no passing zone. Get out there and enforce it.

Hey BB Educated, you may call it wishful thinking but the facts not only show a decline in support for President Trump it also shows that anyone Donald Trump supports ends up a loser. Donald Trump was a loser in his previous life as a real estate businessman and he had brought his losing to the While House. The only way Trump has won anything was either by cheating or helping a foreign country to steal an election. Hawaiian Punch Party

All these claims of sexual harassment 30or 40-years-old, there should be a statue of limitations that if you do not report it to the police within two years if you claim it afterwards you’re subject to a libel suit. And short of reporting it to police how about reporting it to your supervisor who records it as part of a permanent record for the company? By the way when I was in high school there was a female teacher harassed me. Now all I have to do is prove it.

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