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Opinion

Trump’s policies have us headed to the poor house

DEAR EDITOR: On the March 19 opinion page, Star Parker warns against complaining about the price of gas. On the opposite page is the headline “US national debt surges past $39 trillion just weeks into war.” On the front page, school workers need more money and Page 3 laments Trumbull ...

Furor over voter ID is much ado about nothing

DEAR EDITOR: What is wrong with Democrats? Anyone who moves to a different city, county, state or district — not just veterans — has to register to vote with ID. If you lose any personal documents, you CAN get new ones. What is the big deal when you get married, you get a card from the ...

Learning the truth about employee-paid health care

DEAR EDITOR: You’re a locally important civic leader with formal authority in your organization and significant influence outside of it. You see the rescission of Obamacare for millions of Americans as a complicating factor with unknown consequences for your thinking about health ...

YSU should practice due diligence as it expands

DEAR EDITOR: I am cautiously optimistic about YSU opening a satellite campus in Steubenville. Four members of my family are YSU graduates with six degrees in widely varied fields of study. We all faced challenges, but on-campus support services and dedicated faculty who truly wanted their ...

Stuck with a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde presidency

DEAR EDITOR: Mr. Donald Trump ran as Dr. Jekyll and morphed into a Mr. Hyde. We’ve been forewarned. In 2016, Hillary Clinton gave us a clue of what might come. Again in 2024, Kamala Harris predicted the outcome if Mr. Trump became president. Nevertheless, our testosterone-fueled nation ...

Trump suffers from a failure to execute

DEAR EDITOR: Donald Trump has great bumper sticker ideas. Secure our borders, election integrity, lower taxes, transparency. The problem is he is incapable of properly executing any of them as policy. It’s difficult to have a sovereign nation without secure borders. However, sending ...