John Cilento News Today

East Meadow, L.I.: Our government seems to be hell bent on ruining itself. A balloon enters its airspace and they shoot it down, then warn citizens not to touch it or go near it. Sounds logical to me, but if you didn’t know what’s in it, why did you shoot it down? I’ve seen jetliners get refueled in midair, I’ve seen ballistic nets shot over a man running on an airstrip — you can’t tell me there was not a more nimble way to bring it down.

Yorktown, N.Y.: The Daily News missed an opportunity to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its color Sunday comics supplement, first appearing on Feb. 25, 1923. Given that The News’ original publisher, Joseph Medill Patterson, hand-picked and often named the comics he wanted, and that The News has one of the richest comics histories in the industry, it’s an omission that speaks to the sad state of interest in comic strips today.